The economic growth is intrinsically related to the economic management of that state government, this was not a state that was buoyed by its own major mining boom or that was feted by the unsustainable pork barrelling of the Howard commonwealth, it was the disciplined management of the Carr and Iemma governments and their investment in infrastructure to support emergent industries in the state over that period. With respect to disability payments you have oversimplified a complicated issue in a disgraceful way.
When it comes to corruption charges in the police force happening two months ago, you know something, this is no longer Bob Carr's NSW it is Barry O'farrells. That being said exceptions will always emerge the point is that they are actually being caught and prosecuted now, unlike in 1996 where the Royal Commission's findings showed that corruption in the NSW police force was rampant and unchecked until Carr passed the legislation granting the police commissioner greater powers to crack down upon it and making the commissioner directly accountable to the cabinet.
As for the matter of how long it takes you to get to school, diddums... The fact is I have never been anywhere in the world which didn't think it's local public transport was lousy, Sydney is a large place with a high population time taken to travel is just a reality. The state governments investment in infrastructure however was both targeted and at a record high, if you want you culprit for the under-funding of NSW infrastructure I suggest you look at John Howard and Peter Costello. When John Curtin took control of income tax from the states it was done so under the assumption that the federal government would use that revenue to assume much of the infrastructure burdens of the that which had been traditionally assigned to the states and indeed that happened under Menzies,under Whitlam under Hawke and under Fraser. Not under the neoliberalism of John Howard however.
On tenancy laws I've written extensively about them at university, simply put you are again oversimplifying the reforms in a disgustingly deceitful way, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say you just don't know what your talking about, as in most things.
Not going to respond to throwing around arbitrary figures like that.
Finally I didn't say the EU I said the members of the EU, as in the domestic governance of European nations.
Firstly; how do you differentiate between the economic gains due to the state and federal government's policies? If you want to discuss infrastructure take a look at cherrybrook, but yes it has been horribly underfunded. Also in the lead up to the last state election all the bus routes in Northern Sydney were re-catagorised; in the confusion surrounding this event quite a number of busses appear to have ceased to operate; This was under Mrs Keneally; whom I note you have avoided mentioning.
With regards to the tennancy laws, my only knowledge on their front is through a court case involving the attempted removal of a tennant from a property where the: rent had not been paid in 9 months; three windows were smashed and the tennant had refused to pay (Glass is an exception to the usual "acceptable wear" clause) the pipe under the kitchen sink was later discovered to have been smashed so serve as a place of disposal for marajuana, the tennant was refusing access to the house for maintainence, and a number of the light covering had been used as "bongs" Nails had been driven into the walls, there were smoke stains on the roof despite the contract forbidding smoking inside the residence; an extra person was living in the house, despite the contract being for 4 people, not 5 (Neither the landlord nor the estate agent were informed of this) animals were kept in the place of residence despite the contract forbidding pets, the carpet was duly stained due to this. The tennant had also failed to maintain the garden despite his claim to do so as a partial waiver to rent (again in the contract).
Despite all of this the court did not let the landlord remove the tennant from the premises, and it took a further two years to successfuly extract them, the tennant got the majority of the bond back, and the landlord had to pay for the repairs.
I would be interested to hear what you think of the tennancy laws though.
To continue you have not rebutted the ludicrous "management fees" levied by the Carr Government following a diver injuring themselves at Manly in 2001.
And for a point; London's transport system is exceptional, I would highly reccomend it.
The 1bn dollars was the largest hole found in labor's paperwork.
I would point out with regards to your dismissal of such a sum, that thankfully Australia is not as corrupt as countries such as Italy or Greece and while they may be having trouble with sums 100 times the amount I don't believe that is any excuse to ignore it.
On a final note; throwing money at problems does not guarantee any form of solution.
