The NSW Treasurer Just Threw Bulk Shade On Every Other State
Dominic Perrottet just absolutely rinsed NSW's neighbouring states.
The NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has come out swinging against the other Australian states today, inferring that New South Wales is the only good state and that the others pretty much suck.
In a speech to the Business Council of Australia today Perrottet used the somewhat confusing analogy that if NSW was the “head office” of Australia, then South Australia is the “call centre”, Victoria the “maintenance department” and Queensland the “lunch room”.
With a state election just around the corner, the Liberal NSW government will be chucking absolutely everything at the wall to stave off a repeat of last month’s Victorian election where Labor demolished the Liberal opposition party. I guess throwing shade at their neighbours is high up the list?
Perrottet also had some choice words for Western Australia saying it’s too reliant on mining with their wealth coming “almost entirely from digging things out of the ground and selling them”. We’ll update this story with WA’s response to the sledge when the news gets to them in about 5 hours time.
Turning more inwards in his speech, the NSW Treasurer proceeded to wank on about how great and smart and wonderful his home state truly is, noting NSW’s strengths in both nuclear reactors and something called fintech, which unfortunately has nothing to do with creating killer shark-robot hybrids.
Obviously, he skipped over all that other stuff about NSW, such as its disdain for anyone having any fun ever, and its love for murdering greyhounds. Hahaha, we suck!
We’re yet to see any return serves from the likes of Queensland or Victorian state politicians to Perrottet’s attempt at dunking on them, almost definitely because the whole clumsy metaphor makes very little sense.
NSW faces a state election in March next year with the poorly-polling Premier Gladys Berejiklian up against brand new Labor opposition leader Micheal Daley and it’s looking pretty tight:
#ReachTEL Poll NSW Preferred Premier: Berejiklian LIB 45.8 (-4.0) Daley ALP 54.2 (+4.0 compared to Foley) #nswpol #auspol
— GhostWhoVotes (@GhostWhoVotes) November 30, 2018
Should be fun! By which I mean exhausting because politics is hell right now.
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Via The ABC.