.AlexSmithSMH The Coalition’s strategy team must be shaking their heads and wondering how Labor managed to steal the agenda so convincingly a fortnight out from the NSW election nswvotes
, which included calling in the government’s chief attack dogs, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet and Transport Minister Andrew Constance, to criticise the Labor leader.As the stadium debate has rumbled on, the Liberals have tried, and largely failed, to counter Labor’s line that a new Allianz stadium in the city’s east would come at the cost of services. Labor’s “schools and hospitals before stadiums” pitch has been the strongest line of attack that Labor has had.
This is because the government has not let the board off the leash to prosecute the case for a new stadium. Shepherd, one of the most experienced businessmen in the city, spoke in a parliamentary inquiry, but wasn’t allowed to draft his own media statements.
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