MORNING BRIEFING: NSW Labor's new interim leader Penny Sharpe will spend her first day hitting the phones and regrouping after the election, while Australian leaders offer tributes to the nation's most senior Greek Orthodox leader,
NSW Labor's Penny Sharpe says it will be"steady as she goes" and she will spend her first day as interim leader hitting the phones and trying to re-group after the bruising weekend election loss.
Yesterday the party announced it would hold a leadership ballot after May's federal election so people can concentrate on that campaign.delivering the Bereijklian Government a 47th seat and majority. State political reporter Sarah Gerathy said in the wake of Labor's election loss, this solution has bought them some time.Michael Daley's decision to step aside is the best of a bunch of bad options facing the NSW Labor Party if it wants to minimise the chances of bruising the federal campaign.
But the only way for Labor to avoid a drawn-out rank-and-file ballot to replace him would be if there was just one contender and no challenger — and the party is too shell-shocked from its election defeat right now to be uniting behind a single candidate.
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