ANALYSIS: If NSW Treasurer Matt Kean becomes deputy leader on Tuesday, the jovial 40-year-old will become the clear candidate to succeed Premier Dominic Perrottet. But don’t write off the premier yet.
This week, 200 Liberal Party members gathered at the Roseville Golf Club on Sydney’s north shore for a two-course meal, raffle draw and a conversation between former prime minister Tony Abbott and Sky News broadcaster Chris Smith.
The minority government’s strategy to win the March election is this: hope voters forget about the Barilaro affair, and re-establish what June’s budget was meant to do – convince families life will get better under the Liberals and Nationals. “There’s no justification for it considering they are being paid more than the premier of NSW,” Minns said on 2GB.
Some Liberals expected the controversy over John Barilaro’s $500,000-a-year New York posting handed to the former deputy premier would pass in weeks, and quickly fade away once he withdrew from the job. A separate faction, the Centre Right, represents another quarter of the MPs. Its leading figure, Transport Minister David Elliott, has proposed himself for deputy leader. The Centre Right and Perrottet’s “hard right” faction have fought for years over control of electorates, including the federal seat of Mitchell.
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