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.
The Baird factor, the Abbott factor, and the challenge for Labor
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
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Peter Clarke
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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Topics: elections | Greens | Labor Party | Liberal Party | National Party | politics | rural
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