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Gabrielle Chan

NSW election 2015: minister attacks ALP 'yellow peril' campaign – as it happened

NSW Premier Mike Baird and Leader of the Opposition Luke Foley enter the final days of the NSW election campaign.
NSW Premier Mike Baird and Leader of the Opposition Luke Foley enter the final days of the NSW election campaign. Photograph: Nikki Short/AAPIMAGE

Night time NSW election summary

Rightio, I’m off like a fish in the sun.

Here is what we learned today about the NSW state election.

  • The premier insisted his office did not intervene to have the UBS privatisation report changed, even though someone from government rang the bank. After which, the report was changed.
  • Mike Baird also refused to rule out selling the poles and wires to China State Grid Corp, notwithstanding corruption investigations into the state-owned power company. A woman at the Royal Easter show asked for an assurance that the poles and wires would not “go China’s way”. Baird said it was safe to vote for him while not actually answering the question.
  • Luke Foley promised a new hospital for Goulburn worth $270m, though only $20m is listed on the books and the rest would be “reserved” for Ron. That’s lateRon.
  • The Baird government confirmed what the environment movement expected and announced they would rewrite the native vegetation and threatened species acts that outlaws land clearing. Stokes has said there would be no broadscale land clearing. The Nats rejoiced. The Greens were cranky.

And just for colour and movement, the NSW electorate GIF by demographics via datawiz Nick Evershed. If you hit play, it goes like a great big puffer fish.

You can find the important info here.

Also available for your viewing pleasure, the new seat of Newtown, where the battle rages between the Greens and Labor for the hipster vote. From Bill Code and Adam Brereton.

Progressive poll paradise: the new Newtown vote.

Thanks so much for your company and input. It always helps my output.

We shall see on the morrow, the last day before the NSW election.

Fred McConnell and Brigid Delaney have been looking at how the lock-out laws have changed night life in Sydney. These were introduced to stop violence, as a result of drug and alcohol.

The laws mean in the CBD entertainment precinct, including Kings Cross:

1.30am lockouts and 3am last drinks at hotels, registered clubs, nightclubs and licenced karaoke bars. Small bars (maximum 60 people), most restaurants and tourism accommodation establishments are exempt. Venues currently licensed to stay open after 3am can do so without alcohol service.

This video is really worth a look.

What do the lock-out laws mean for night life in Sydney? Fred McConnell and Brigid Delaney find out.

They spoke to a trauma doctor, a party promoter, a substance abuse expert and an former teenage raver about Sydney’s transforming nightlife and its significance in the New South Wales election.

And just on that coal seam gas, Gay Alcorn has written a really thorough feature on the issues, having driven miles around the state. Be sure to catch up with it here.

When I asked earlier for issues in local electorates, I got a fair few replies and most were from rural, regional people, centred around the issue of coal seam gas and mining.

Like this one. You can see why coal seam gas is such an issue in those northern seats.

Back to Luke Foley’s interview with Fran Kelly, who presses him on the CFMEU campaign ad, which says:

“Selling the electricity network is wrong. Selling it to another country is just not on.”

Is that dog whistling Luke Foley?

It is entirely legitimate for there to be scrutiny of what Mr Baird and his coalition parties are up to with respect to the sale of the state’s electricity network.

Yes but creepy scary music and terms like secret meetings and Chinese government-owned, is that dog whistling?

Well we found out from an organ of the Chinese communist party that Mr Baird’s treasurer had met with China State Grid Corp about buying the NSW electricity network.

Joseph Zhang has recently written to me about this story. Zhang is director of the Xinhua News Agency, which generated the original China Daily story, which was referred to in the Sydney Morning Herald story which was published the same day as the CFMEU campaign.

I am writing to explain the background of a Xinhua article that the Sydney Morning Herald included in its front page story on March 24 titled: Chinese whispers haunt Baird. I am surprised our article has become one of the topics in the current state election.

Our article, which was published in China Daily on March 6, said the NSW Treasurer Andrew Constance had met the State Grid officials in China late last year about the purchase of the state’s electricity assets.

This article was generated from our Xinhua News Agency Sydney Bureau, and was based on a meeting Mr Constance had with the “China Chamber of Commerce in Australia” in Sydney in March, which Xinhua attended as member of the Chamber. This was an open meeting, in which Mr Constance said he wanted to work closer with Chinese businesses in Sydney to promote better trade between our countries.

We have audio of the meeting in which Mr Constance said: “In relation to the sale of state assets such as power companies we are open to global investors into electricity assets. We will be beneficiaries between foreign investment especially if it partners up with superannuation funds and the like. The interest from around the world is very strong but I am very grateful of the interest from China as well and it’s worth singling that out.”

The Xinhua reporter writing this story also included information from a Daily Telegraph article from February 3 that said Mr Constance had met with State Grid officials for an “introductory meeting and discussion on investment in NSW”, according to recently published ministerial diary disclosures.

So based on this information about “investment discussions in NSW”, and “interest from China” and the Xinhua’s reporter wrote:

“Constance has already met with Chinese power firm State Grid Corp late last year regarding the sale of the state’s multi- billion electricity infrastructure.”

Xinhua did not receive any special details about Mr Constance’s November meeting with China’s State Grid Corp besides what Daily Telegraph has covered.

Zhang said he has had no contact with the NSW treasurer’s office or the Chinese government since the story broke in the SMH.

Federal National MP Michael McCormack has placed a bet with Labor MP Jill Hall regarding Saturday’s election outcome.

Bridie Jabour reports:

The New South Wales government has refused to rule a Chinese power firm out of the bidding process to privatise the state’s electricity assets despite the company being investigated for corruption.

Mike Baird, the state premier, met with an executive of the Chinese-owned State Grid Corp and the treasurer, Andrew Constance, has had discussions with the company about leasing NSW electricity assets.

A government audit taken of the company, and of China Southern Power Grid Company, in the past year is reported to have uncovered allegations of corruption including that more than $1bn had been misappropriated while running an electricity grid system.

With Baird staking his election on Saturday on his proposal to lease 49% of the state’s electricity assets for 99 years he hit out at Labor for what he said was an “unbelievable” and “dishonest” campaign against privatisation.

Asked if he would rule out allowing State Grid Corp in particular to bid, Baird sidestepped the question.

“We would consider, obviously, foreign investment, but only on our terms, only in a way where we protect the people of NSW, we control the terms, we control pricing, we control the process, we control the bidders,” he told reporters on Thursday.

I know it’s a long time since breakfast but if you missed Fran Kelly’s interviews with Luke Foley and Mike Baird, they are worth a listen.

Kelly asked the premier about the contact between his office and UBS over the bank’s analysis that long term, the electricity privatisation would be bad for the state’s budget. The premier had previously admitted his office contacted UBS because the conclusion did not take into account the broader economic benefits.

Do you wish your office hadn’t intervened then?

We didn’t Fran...

You didn’t make a phone call from your office?

I did not. The office saw the report, made a contact and the question was, as it was put by UBS was ‘we have seen it and it is wrong, we are dealing with it’. End of story. UBS identified a problem with it, they were dealing with it.

Which sounds to me like it was revised after the contact with the office.

Luke Foley is still waving down in Monaro.

As reported earlier on the blog, the Lebanese Muslim Association’s Samier Dandan has backed the Liberal candidate Ronney Oueik in Auburn against Luke Foley.

It will undoubtedly make Foley’s task harder given 27% of the electorate are Muslim, though we should note that no community votes as a block.

The LMA, which had previously supported Labor, backed the Liberals in the 2011 campaign. They wanted Labor to preselect Auburn councillor Hicham Zraika.

Foley says he still has people in the association who support his campaign.

Dandan explains his position in a video interview here from the Australian Muslim community channel One Path.

Essentially, he says the association took a political calculation to inform themselves and mobilise political power so they were not taken for granted on either side of politics.

He notes the Association backs Labor’s candidate Jihad Dib in Lakemba. Jihad was the principal of Punchbowl Boys High and has been commended for his work in the multicultural community. Liberal members were keen to recruit him but it never happened.

Bridie Jabour has spent some time on the union campaign trail. Find out how it is done here.

There are plenty of people you might slam the door in the face of, or at least shut it straight away. Politician, or anyone flogging a political message, would be among the first to spring to mind. But a nurse? Would you close the door in a nurse’s face? Well, you’d at least hesitate. And the semi-finely oiled machine that is Unions NSW has figured that out.

What is fascinated is that while the unions are campaigning for Labor policies, they do not tell people how to vote.

“Do you represent a party? No, you’re a worker, you’re a trade unionists,” Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon tells the room before they set off under the grey skies.

Toss a coin for Monaro.

Queanbeyan is in the electorate of Monaro, which is south of Canberra. John Barilaro is the local National MP and he is also minister for small business and regional tourism.

Both sides are telling me they are winning this one. The Nats say they will win. Labor say they will win with their former candidate Steve Whan.

Labor has an advantage in that Whan is a former MP for the seat and therefore has name recognition. If the natural swing away from a first term government happens, the 2% margin is pretty hard to retain for the Nats.

While the federal electorate Eden-Monaro is known as the bellwether seat, Monaro is not so aligned with a government vote. Having said that, it largely followed Labor under Neville Wran and the coalition under Nick Greiner.

Based on my mail, it’s anybody’s guess. But Luke Foley is there.

Canberra may have subs but NSW has sub-stations.

Another privatisation door stop from Luke Foley in Queanbeyan. More on that seat in a minute.

Speaking of the upper house and those 394 candidates, there are plenty of other groups apart from the top three on the ballot spot, the the well known ones like the Greens. You can check out the full list here.

There is the Australian Motoring party, the No Parking Meters party, the Voluntary Euthanasia party, the Socialist Alliance and remember the Australian Democrats? They are there too.

There are also a lot of grouped indies, many of them country indies, such as group P, headed by Andrew Thaler. They are spread across the state, campaigning on local issues as well as channelling dissatisfaction with the major parties.

Thaler is typical of many of them:

  • sick of Liberal, Labor, National and Greens,
  • into renewable energy - (he does have a solar business)
  • cranky about Icac findings,
  • worried about climate change.

Thaler is good at the tech stuff; video, tracking apps that show his tours around the state. He is also a social media nut - like most dear readers - and is shamelessly using Labrador puppies to grab attention.

This is about trying to build momentum off the back of independents like Tony Windsor, former MP for New England, and the current MP for Indi, Cathy McGowan.

In an unusual intervention, Windsor has endorsed the group P:

Regional people have got to become a bit more aware they can have greater impact on their own futures rather than waiting for the city based majority parties to deliver them some outcome.

Windsor suggests there has never been a parliament - federal or state - where the balance of power has not been held by country people, be they Nats, indies or others. They just choose not to use it:

They are filling that space and then harming the people who live there.

There are 394 candidates running for the upper house for 21 positions declared vacant out of the total 42 in the Legislative Council.

The draw has put the No Land Tax party in the number one spot, followed by the Outdoor Recreation party (sister of the federal Liberal Democratic party) and the Animal Justice party.

The upper house is the space to watch as it would appear that the Baird government will get back in. At least that is what the Liberal and the Labor parties are telling me.

But of course, as Baird has been fond of telling anyone who will listen, no government has controlled the upper house for 20 years. (He is a man of faith.)

The main point to note about this is that his big Plan A - the privatisation of poles and wires to raise $20bn to spend on infrastructure - need to get past the upper house.

In the past the O’Farrell/Baird governments have relied on the Christian Democrats (Fred Nile) and the Shooters and Fishers party.

Shooters and Fishers oppose the privatisation. Fred Nile wants an inquiry. Which has to put in doubt the $20bn promise bucket.

Luke Foley was asked about native vegetation. Foley took on the environmental shadow role in opposition and will keep it as leader.

No backwards steps, that’s my message on our essential laws to protect NSW native vegetation.

On this decision to roll back native veg laws:

The National party tail wags the Liberal party dog.

Put Labor hates Chinese on the front page, suggests Dominello

Back down to the Marigold restaurant in Chinatown. My spy reports that the Chinese media turned out in force to hear Citizen Minister Victor Dominello. There were 4 newspapers, 3 radio stations and 2 TV stations - all chinese - covering the event.

Dominello called the ALP “disgraceful” for using “yellow peril” scare campaign.

Dominello urged the Chinese press to put “Labor hates Chinese” on their front page, or words to that effect. My reporter in the crowd says:

What is very interesting is that Auburn, where Luke Foley is running, has about 10,000 Chinese locals. He’s lost support from the Lebanese Muslim Association and now the Libs are targeting Chinese.

Native vegetation and threatened species act to be repealed under Baird government

The Baird government has announced it will repeal the native vegetation act, in line with 43 recommendations by a review panel which reported last year.

Essentially the review recommended a repeal of the acts and bringing some of the powers into a biodiversity conservation act. The question is how much. The National party have been gunning for this act since it was introduced by Labor. Environment minister Rob Stokes has promised there would be no return to broadscale clearing but environment groups, Labor and the Greens do not buy it.

Land clearing as an issue is a big one in the bush particularly in the north. It has polarised communities.

Landholder Ian Turnbull has been charged with the murder of an environmental officer Glen Turner, allegedly over illegal land clearing.

Stokes, who is generally regarded with respect by the environment movement, will take a hammering on this issue. But at this stage in the election where rural seats like Monaro, Tamworth, Lismore and Ballina remain in play, the National party needs a win.

I’m told that in the last hour the minister for citizenship and communities, Victor Dominello has addressed a Chinese community gathering at the Marigold restaurant in Chinatown. The message is to underscore the “xenophobic attack on Chinese investment”. This is the anti-privatisation ads run by the CFMEU, suggesting the poles and wires could be sold off to a Chinese state owned company.

A shout out for Goulburn pies.

I can’t say I have tried the pies but I do know the legendary Paragon Cafe has the largest meals in the country. And the mixed grill includes liver. My gift to you.

Luke Foley promises a new hospital for Goulburn

I’ll said it before and I will say it again until I am blue in the face. The most interesting stuff in this election is happening in rural seats.

If you doubt it, ask yourself why Luke Foley is on a bus heading to Goulburn. He is not in the western suburbs, though he stopped off at Campbelltown. He is heading to Goulburn, seat of planning minister Pru Goward - margin 26.8% - to do a health announcement at Goulburn hospital. Then he is off to Queanbeyan in the marginal National electorate of Monaro.

At the start of the week, Labor strategists were very bullish about Goulburn. One senior Labor guy put it this way:

They’re our people.

Backing them in was a Liberal strategist this morning. Of the three seats - Goulburn, Campbelltown and Monaro - Goulburn is most likely. Is this possible?

Labor say they will not win the seat but they reckon they will push it to a couple of percentage points. This would be a major surprise for that seat. NSW Liberals acknowledge that that 26% margin has to come down from the high water mark of the 2011 election. It’s more like 10-12% they say, based on the federal electorate of Hume - which happens to be my electorate.

But if Labor got that margin down to a couple of percentage points, the Libs would want to be asking themselves some serious questions about what is happening in rural Australia.

The other thing to remember is that Pru Goward has not been popular in that seat. And the redistribution caused the amalgamation of three country seats into two. Burrinjuck, Murrumbidgee and Murray-Darling were squashed into Cootamundra and Murray. Burrinjuck, which neighboured Goulburn, was held by the Nationals, under primary industries minister Katrina Hodgkinson. Hodgkinson talked about contesting Goulburn at one stage until a solution was found in Cootamundra.

Election buses are criss-crossing the state.

Luke Foley is on the road from Campbelltown to Queanbeyan (Monaro) via Goulburn.

Bridie reports Mike Baird has finished his morning with a tour of the Royal Easter Show.

Here’s Bridie:

If you’re ever contemplating a trip to the show the Thursday before Easter week is the time to go, near empty.

Baird looked at the vegetable displays, and wool displays, and finished in the show bag pavilion where his daughter, Kate scored a couple of show bags.

The 16-year-old is doing work experience for a week with her dad. She tells me she thinks it’s interesting, but no, doesn’t see a politician future for herself.

Some excited young boys spoke to Baird in the show bag pavilion and asked him old he was. Their guesses? 59 or 50. Baird is 46.

The toll of the campaign trail.

Updated

I have put out a call on Twitter to let me know what is going on in your neck of the woods. Though we are now into a TV and radio ad blackout, there is still a whole lot of shaking going on on the interwebz and the tweeps reports they are getting texts in various seats from parties and candidates. Hollie Hughes, the country vice president of the NSW Liberal division and number 10 on the LNP upper house ticket, suggests someone is selling phone lists. Hughes is in Moree in the north of the state, in the Northern Tablelands electorate.

(mumbles, mumbles, metadata, mumbles). Me, not her.

A couple of replies here from the tweeps. The first from our own Helen Davidson, who is our reporter in Darwin, though she has family in NSW.

Baird: I'm used to privatisation transactions. I've done them before.

Mike Baird has just stopped off next to the M4 in Sydney to talk about his government’s policies to ease congestion on the western motorway but was asked about the potential for Chinese power company State Grid Corporation to invest in NSW’ electricity network.

Bridie reports Baird refused to rule out letting the company lease NSW power assets after reports today in Fairfax that the company is under investigation.

We are in control, there is no transaction, there is no transaction because we haven’t had an acceptance from the people of New South Wales that they want us to continue in government. It is a lease, nothing is for sale, this is a lease, and it’s 49%, we take the rent up front. We do it on our terms and I’m used to these transactions, I’ve done them before. I understand Labor, Luke Foley doesn’t understand the transactions. We’ve done it before, we do it on our terms, our way and we control the pricing, the bidding, we do it on the basis of the people of New South Wales and their interest. The latest desperate scare campaign from Labor, that’s what it is, it is unbelievable how desperate this campaign is, it shows they have nothing to offer the people of New South Wales.

He was also asked for his thoughts on Zayn quitting One Direction.

I think all of them should leave.

BREAKING: Luke Foley plugs for One Direction vote. Foley backs Niall.

On the Foley bus, a controversial video has been released where Luke Foley backs Niall from One Direction as news breaks that Zayn is leaving the band.

Is this a Liberal trick???

This could be the final nail in Foley’s electoral coffin.

Does he know their fans are under voting age??

Updated

Yum. Yum. Pizza for brekkie.

Mike Baird has done a swing through the seat of Auburn. Previously an upper house member, Luke Foley has to win a lower house seat to make the transition to leader. Sussex St has nominated Auburn.

The seat has a notional margin of 7.2% for Labor after the redistribution and was held by Barbara Perry, until she got the tap. Stand aside, incoming Luke.

Bridie points out that Baird must be feeling pretty confident about Saturday to be campaigning with a street walk there. Obviously he will not win that seat so is burning the last hours of the campaign in an unwinnable seat. Cheekiness bordering on hubris.

Bridie reports:

All that was really open at 8am were pizza and kebab shops with one owner telling Baird to try his pizza. Baird is the type of bloke who gets up at 5am to go for a run and a surf so the pizza for breakfast did not look too appealing to him. He tried to resist but after some egging on from the media he accepted a slice of chicken pizza. The verdict on the pizza from the premier? “Reasonable.”

In the interest of transparency your correspondent rejected the slice offered to her. Not hungover enough.

Which reminds me of fundamentalist joggers from First Dog’s #NSWvotes cartoon yesterday. If you have not done so already, you must check it out.

Updated

Stop whinging about privatisation ads, Foley tells Baird. That's life in the big city.

From Michael Safi, on the Foley bus.

Luke Foley’s campaign bus (still graffiti-free, he pointed out) has made its first stop of the day at Campbelltown hospital, where the opposition leader announced $100m for a new paediatric surgery centre, part of a $1.2b investment in health infrastructure for western Sydney, “the largest commitment to the delivery of health services ever made at a state election”, he said.

The premier, Mike Baird, promised $300m towards the upgrade of the same hospital last weekend, but Foley said that and other Liberal promises were contingent on the state’s electricity network being sold for $13m - and that was far from guaranteed, he said.

“Promises [Baird] is making for schools and hospitals will be ditched before you know it,” he said.

Foley continues to face questions over a controversial CFMEU campaign playing on fears the state’s poles and wires could be leased to a Chinese state corporation, slammed by the government as racist and fear-mongering.

The opposition leader insisted he was opposed to any foreign entity owning the state’s electricity assets, “even my friends in the Irish government”. He warned that whoever ran the high-voltage network “will be able to run data services along that transmission network”, including to sensitive sites such as the RAAF base at Richmond.

He declined to endorse the CFMEU’s campaign but added, “I support the right of working people and their representative organisations to advertise in a democratic election”.

Baird needed to toughen up and stop “whinging” about the advertisements, he said.

“That’s life in the big city, it’s a robust democracy.”

Campbelltown and the Labor community preselection model. Revolutionary.

Nurses show their support for Labor.

Luke Foley has headed out to the marginal seat of Campbelltown, which is a marginal seat on the outer edge of Sydney. Traditionally it was a Labor seat, but it is now held by Liberal MP Bryan Doyle on a notional margin of 6.8%, according to ABC guru Antony Green. He is up against a former mayor and Labor candidate Greg Warren.

Fun fact: when I was still wearing shoulder pads in the eighties, controversial Liberal MP Michael Knight held Campbelltown. Knight was originally in the Labor left, then swapped to the right to fulfill his vaulting ambition. After a brief moment of glory ahead of the Sydney Olympics, sandwiched between stuff ups, Knight resigned.

But the truly interesting thing about Campbelltown is that it was one of the first sites that Labor trialled community preselections. This is the bold practice of actually asking the voters in the local community who THEY want as their candidate. Revolutionary, I know. Community input, plus member input, is therefore combined in what Labor hopes will be electoral nirvana.

It’s gotta be better than the status quo. God knows that wasn’t working in NSW. #sussexst

Updated

We all vote Liberal here. Except for the forklift driver.

The modern election campaign would be nothing without the media bus. This is the tradition of journalists piling onto an air-conditioned hermetically-sealed bus with all the modern comforts, fed like rats in a box, and piling off to cover the campaign event of said leader. The most common question heard on those buses is:

Where are we?

Followed by:

What seat is this?

The unstoppable Bridie Jabour was up at 5am to do just that. The food and flower markets are an election staple, if a little unpredictable.

She reports premier Mike Baird has started his morning in Flemington at the Sydney Markets.

He had a warm welcome with a man rushing up to him exclaiming “this morning we all vote Liberal!” as Baird arrived. A worker had even made a sign on a piece of cardboard saying “Back Baird”.

One of the flower market vendors told Baird he did not want NSW electricity assets sold to a foreign buyer. This is a reference to the Chinese power company interested in investing in the privatised assets that has been giving Baird a headache this week.

The electricity will always be generated here, Baird replied.

The walk through lasted about 45 minutes and almost everyone was very excited to see the premier, though one forklift driver said as Baird walked past:

I’m voting for the other guy...I’m just being honest.

They are off to Auburn next - Labor heartland - and finishing the morning with a visit to the Royal Easter show.

Baird is then spending the afternoon on the Central Coast, tag teaming with Luke Foley who was campaigning there yesterday.

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes: This election is interesting

Good morning to the voters of New South Wales and beyond,

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, not around my eyes and you’re under...the NSW election IS INTERESTING.

It’s 20 years since I left the NSW parliamentary press gallery and it is wonderful to be back to take you through the final days of the state election. For the past three weeks, I have been following the twists and turns of the campaign, which have occurred largely under the radar of most voters. My commitment, to you, the voters of NSW and beyond, is plenty of photos, insider chats and the links between this election and the federal sphere.

Privatisation is the key issue. Labor is running hard on meetings between the government and a Chinese state-owned power company. In an interview with Fran Kelly on the ABC, premier Mike Baird admitted he had many meeting with many potential buyers around the world. He called the CFMEU ad campaign, which raises the possibility of the Chinese government’s power company owning poles and wires, a blatant scare campaign. Opposition leader Luke Foley’s message is once you privatise, you lose control of the network. You can’t have two sets of poles and wires running down the streets of NSW.

It’s a licence to print money, says Foley.

We have Bridie Jabour trailing the premier Mike Baird. We have Michael Safi trailing Luke Foley. There are plenty of other interesting candidates outside the major parties and I will be bringing all their news to you today, tomorrow and election day.

Join us below in conversation or on the Twits @gabriellechan @bkjabour and @safimichael.

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