ANALYSIS: Antony Green: This extraordinary day in NSW politics is rooted deep in history
muscled its way onto centre stage and threatened to bring down the Berejiklian Government.Other states have seen such explosions.The Liberal Party governed Victoria for nearly three decades until the 1980s without a Coalition partner, and Coalition relations have always been fraught in Western Australia.
And when? At a time when all arms of government are fully occupied with the health and economic fallout from a pandemic. Country Party leader and then-deputy prime minister John McEwen threatened to walk away from the Coalition over trade and exchange rate policy. By then, Labor was more electable, and splits in the Coalition allowed Labor to campaign on, to quote Bob Hawke, "If you can't govern yourself you can't govern the country".
While Coalitions fell apart elsewhere in Australia in the 1980s, a strong Coalition government was elected to office in NSW under Nick Greiner.
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