The man who would be premier

  • Brett Evans

17 February 2011Barry O’Farrell reached the NSW Liberal leadership by an unconventional route, writes Brett Evans in Inside Story

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THE FORMER premier of Queensland, Wayne Goss, once declared that the voters of his state were “sitting on their verandas with baseball bats” waiting for Paul Keating to call the 1996 federal election. In 2011 the voters of New South Wales might be described as waiting on their front steps for Labor’s Kristina Keneally with their chainsaws revving…

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