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Peter Andren has withdrawn from the NSW senate race for health reasons. You can read the announcement on his MySpace page here.
It is interesting to note one particular concern he notes in the media release:
“I intend keeping a watching brief on electorate matters during my treatment.
“All the various services and duties of my electorate office […]

One of these days, Greg Smith will probably be the Attorney General of New South Wales.
Elected in the most recent NSW state election, Greg Smith was one of the campaigns star recruits. He’d been a senior public prosecutor, with a record for being tough on crime. He also had a background in community work, […]

In a new Dead Roo feature, editors Rebecca Leighton and Kieran Bennett will be preparing a weekly profile of a less well known public figure who has featured in the mainstream news over the preceding week.
Our first target is Paul Gibson, the New South Wales state MP who was dumped from the ministry before even […]

“The Environment” should not have to bid for clean air or adequate water.
Govt pays $20m for spare Murray water
Murray Irrigation has defended the decision to sell just under half of its supplementary water license to the New South Wales Government for $20 million. … to be used for environmental flows. - ABC: rural
A supplementary water […]

The New South Wales election on Saturday should have been the quintessential unloseable election for the Liberal Party, facing an ageing, demonstratably hopeless and horribly unpopular Labor government. Instead, they picked up no seats from Labor, defeating only two independents who largely fell over of their own accord. For this, the Liberal Party has only […]

In the same vein as that great Australian comedian Dave Hughes: I’m disappointed tonight. Not so disappointed that Labor have snuck back in for another four more years in NSW, not so disappointed that the third party vote hasn’t been as strong as I think it should have been given the circumstances. No, I’m not […]

The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) is so short of supporters in the NSW state election that they’ve decided to forgo standard micro party practice and actually pay for new candidates registration fees. Naturally they expect you to provide your own staff, ensure all booths are manned, and spend at least $3000 of your own money […]

According to this NineMSN article, Mamdouh Habib will stand for the seat of Auburn in the March NSW state election.
Mr Habib will run as an independent, supported by the Auburn Human Rights Group (AHRG).
In a statement Mr Habib said he would be campaigning for “the right of freedom of expression and in opposition to the […]

The Eighth and Nineth of September will see APEC “economic leaders”* meet in Sydney, where they’ll wear funny suites and plot world domination. Disgusted at the decadent funny suite wearing ways of APEC, Stop the War Coalition Sydney is organizing massive protests to coincide with the meeting.
Super secret minutes of the meeting demonstrate just how […]

They don’t cause any increase in crime.
the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) said today that crime in Kings Cross had remained steady or declined since the injecting room opened five years ago.
Theft has continued to drop, down 34 per cent between 2002/03 and 2005/06
The medically-supervised injecting centre at Kings Cross has saved over […]