Hi All,
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So the NSW state election has been decided and the Liberals have won. The seat of Balmain is still too close to call but it looks like the liberals will win it. What does that mean for the redevlopment of Balmain Leagues club? Does the redevelopment have a better chance of getting approved under liberals than labor? I would have thought the labor government would support it more than the liberals. The greens had a shocker in this election so that has to be a positive for the developments chances right?
Section 3A means that is goes straight to NSW Department of Planning and not the local council. Liberal party has said they will scrap Section 3A and give power back to the local councils (doubt the Liberal Party will be in a hurry to do this, especially with Sydney City Council, will probably occur in about 3 years time just before next election) but it shouldn't affect the Tigers Development as it has been lodged.
The Liberal Party does not fear the Greens and will let the Tigers development be judged on its merit and not be fearful of losing a seat (especially as next election is 4 years away).
Helps to have the premier as a supporter as well.
I imagine it will be a smooth process to get the re-development approved and it should be the Balmain Leagues Club has been great for the local community for so many years and a vocal minority of NIMBY/Greenies should never have been allowed to hold up the re-development for as long as they have.
They won Campbelltown for the first time since English settlement. Surely that is worth another few million dollars to bring the ground up to 30,000 capacity!
Its Greens or Labor according to the AEC website. Sure the Libs got the most primary
but the preferences that do flow will be between Labor and the greens.
Its Greens or Labor according to the AEC website. Sure the Libs got the most primary
but the preferences that do flow will be between Labor and the greens.
It depends who the final 2 are after the minor preferences get distributed. One of them will surely be the Libs. The big 3 polled around 93% and you assume there would be some exhausted preferences but if Parker moves ahead of Verity Firth and the final distribution is Lib v Greens things might get tricky. Labor was talking preference Greens (I don't know if they did) which would mean the Greens would beat the Libs pretty easily 2PP. If the ALP keeps in 2nd it will come down to Green preferences. The Greens did not issue a HTV preferencing anyone so it comes down to how Greens voters preferenced (assuming they did).
According to the ABC (the SEO will only do an ALP/Greens preference on the night as a pre-ordained plan of action) the 2PP is around 51-49 ALP leading the Libs. So closer than you might think.
It will take them a while. My apologies if you know this, but basically the AEC (or SEC in this case) decide in advance who the 2PP will be done on. They have to do this because if you left it up to each booth they could be doing the count on different candidates in different booths and you have one hell of a mess. So all the polling booths are told in advance who the 2PP will be on. After polls close they tell the staff and scrutineers this as well.
Most of the time it is common sense (and is ALP v Lib/Nat). Sometimes they get it completely wrong, normally if an Indie does really well. Once all the ballots get back to HQ they go back to square one and count all the primaries and start distributing preferences as candidates are knocked out until they get to the final 2.
Will have little or no impact on things. State members don't decide development proposals, the Libs have little incentive in trying to appease Parker. A major step backwards for the inner West though - these clowns have ruined LMC and now they want to do the same in state parliament.
I have some respect for environmental Greens but none for these watermelons who are more interested in social welfare issues on the extreme left. These are the same types who ran for the Trots at uni and hope to get a Socialist Alliance agenda implemented. What makes it worse is Parker is a particularly bad example of these types. He is every bit a machine politician as the Labor right he criticises - see what happens if you try to get in the way of his seat in parliament.
Anyway rant over. Parker is irrelevant to BOF getting his agenda up and running and as soon as the ALP vote recovers he'll be back to the backlots of LMC.
