Nathan Rees

SO WAS it worth the trouble? The latest Herald poll, published on Saturday, shows that the Premier, Nathan Rees, has not benefited from his success at the ALP state conference two weeks ago. There he demanded - and received - the right to...

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...almost every single policy area, a Herald/Nielsen poll found last weekend. The Herald revealed on Saturday that the Premier, Nathan Rees, had failed to gain a bounce from the sacking of the controversial minister Joe Tripodi from cabinet,...

In this article: Frank Sartor, Joe Tripodi, Newspoll, and Sydney Morning Herald

A new poll shows that NSW Premier Nathan Rees has not gained any benefit from sacking Joe Tripodi and deciding to ban donations from developers. A Nielsen poll, published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, shows Labor's primary...

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NATHAN REES has failed to gain any bounce from sacking Joe Tripodi and deciding to ban donations from developers, a Herald/Nielsen poll shows, in what are probably terminal signs for the Premier's leadership. Labor's primary vote remains...

In this article: Joe Tripodi, Newspoll, Barry O'Farrell, Morris Iemma, Liberal Party, Carmel Tebbutt, Bob Carr, and Frank Sartor

NSW Premier Nathan Rees is expecting it to be "business as usual" as he fronts his party room on Tuesday for the first time since sacking two ministers. The caucus of Labor MPs began meeting late on Tuesday morning at NSW Parliament...

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Premier Nathan Rees plans to use any momentum gained from his decision to dump Joe Tripodi from cabinet to push forward in the last month of the year with a policy agenda which he hopes will define that he stands for something. In this...

In this article: Joe Tripodi, Barry O'Farrell, Bob Carr, and Eric Roozendaal

IN the space of a week, Nathan Rees has gone from leper to flavour of the month. The extent of the turnaround, following Mr Rees's spectacular performance at Labor's annual state conference last weekend, has become clear over the past 48...

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NATHAN REES had the biggest win of his 14-month premiership at the weekend. In the process he hopes to have put paid in the cabinet to the ''cancer'' that eats at the Labor caucus: the powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. But the...

In this article: Joe Tripodi, Bob Carr, Morris Iemma, George Bush, Mark Arbib, and NSW

...assets, which is at the stage of expressions of interest. "I have been nothing other than loyal to Nathan Rees," Mr Tripodi said. Mr Rees's actions received immediate support from the highest echelons of the Labor Party. Speaking at...

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NSW Premier Nathan Rees has wasted no time using new extraordinary powers granted him by the ALP, boldly axing Joe Tripodi and Ian Macdonald from his frontbench. Mr Tripodi, the Right faction powerbroker who has kept Mr Rees safe as...

In this article: Joe Tripodi, NSW, Morris Iemma, ALP, APEC, Peter Primrose, and Kevin Rudd