Why is the NSW election race so tight?
One day it was an astronaut while the next it was a scientist, depending on what book the avid reader had just devoured.
Ms Berejiklian was born on September 22, 1970, the eldest of three daughters to Armenian immigrant parents. She spoke only her family’s native tongue until she was five. “Do we have more to do? Of course we do. But when we came to government, NSW was the worst-performing state in the nation. It was a basket case.”
But since 2011, the state has seen two other Liberal premiers come and go — Barry O’Farrell, who quit over an undeclared bottle of wine, and Mike Baird, who returned to the private sector. And that’s just in the city. In the state’s regions, the National Party is polling poorly due to the Murray-Darling water plan management fiasco, a slow response to the drought and mass fish kills on the Murray River.
“There’s always going to be an argument about how that equates to the right balance. Some people will tell you it’s not enough and others will tell you it’s too far. Gladys Berejiklian when she was finally declared the winner of the seat of Willoughby in 2003. Picture: Samantha EmanuelAnd on red tape — something the government has been criticised for failing to reduce — she agreed there’s more work to be done.“I can’t handle red tape. It frustrates me when there’s red tape that doesn’t need to be there.
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