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The Coalition has won a convincing victory in New South Wales. Stephen Mills talks to Peter Clarke about the result and its implications

Peter Clarke 29 March 2015 81 words

NSW premier Mike Baird poses for photographs with supporters after claiming victory last night. Nikki Short/AAP Image

After election losses in Victoria and Queensland, the Coalition has won a convincing victory in New South Wales under premier Mike Baird. In this podcast the University of Sydney’s Stephen Mills, author of The Professionals: Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia, talks to Peter Clarke about the result and its implications. Stephen Mills is speaking via Skype from Canberra.

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• Stephen Mills’s articles for Inside Story

• Peter Chen’s article for The Conversation

Peter Clarke is a Melbourne-based webcaster, writer and educator who teaches at RMIT and Melbourne universities. He pioneered national talkback on Australian radio as the inaugural presenter of Offspring (now Life Matters) on ABC Radio National.

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