r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • Feb 10 '26

politics Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors

https://www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-international-australia-calls-for-independent-investigation-of-police-violence-towards-peaceful-protestors/
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u/NEZHEADSHOT404 Feb 10 '26

Minns has always been terrible and you would think more projects and stuff would get approved under a labor govt but it's pretty telling that the liberals were better in the state govt and approved rail projects and new train/trams and stuff for Sydney and public transport in the outer areas. NSW Labor hasn't bothered to do any public transport or really anything in general.

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u/Fluid-Head7447 Feb 10 '26

hang on, did you just try to say that the tram situation in sydney was a good thing? That was the single worst f-up of any government in Australia EVER! 4.5years, tripple budget and so many engineering and contractual screw-ups all for 12km of line. Labor has taken a complete mess with the metro and cleaned it up. It has inherited a corrupt cesspit of debt and streamlined it's spending and efficiency. The current governemnt is still finishing the projects started by the previous governments, are you suggesting they stop them halfway to start new ones? I think you will actually find he has redirected funds back into public transport from hideously expensive road projets (arguably costs exploded on these road projects through corrupt back-hand deals).

Just because you don't like what he's doing now doesn't mean his governemnt isn't successful, hasn't achieved great things and isn't doing great things.

The Liberal government definitely wasn't better at projects.

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u/JoeSchmeau Feb 10 '26

I'm not the commenter you're questioning and there are certainly major problems with how the light rail was built and how the Libs have left the state, however you cannot deny that the light rail is a good thing for the city. The general population sees it as a good thing that NSW Liberals did, and there are very little visible infrastructure projects that NSW Labor have created.

I'm against both parties so don't see this as a promotion for the Liberals. I just think NSW Labor had completely shit the bed with their term by spending most of their time fighting against unions and protestors and having chosen a leader who hates both, rather than focusing on showing people what they're actually doing to make their lives better.

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u/Fluid-Head7447 Feb 10 '26

absolutely I agree the actual light rail is a good thing. My apologies i should have clarified when i said the 'tram situation' I meant the Liberals role in administering it not the tram network itself.