Joseph Poprzeczny

MEMBERS of Geoff Gallop’s Cabinet are rather sensitive about issues like economic management and accountability. Understandably so.

THE path to farsighted urban planning is like that much talked about road to Satan’s home, which is said to be paved with good intentions.

IT WAS sudden and unexpected.Before the party meeting Hendy was boss; after it, it was Max.

DOES WA have a first class union movement? Or is it second class; or third, or fourth? Or perhaps fifth rate?It’s an important issue because the earnings, thus well-being, of some 900,000 workers plus their dependents, are at stake.

NEW WA Attorney-General Jim McGinty has headed off on his first interstate outing in his new job, having already played a key role in the resolution of one of the biggest conflicts concerning WA business.

WA’s political battle lines for 2001, at least, seem to have been drawn.

NOW our new ministers have enjoyed a week of the trappings of office they’d be wise to ponder on why they’ll have outgoing Premier Richard Court eyeballing them in the foreseeable future.

ELECTION nights are similar – figures, percentages, swings, hugs, kisses, cheers, and inspiring speeches.“We have been through the wilderness and we have emerged victorious tonight,” incoming Prem-ier Geoff Gallop told the Labor faithful.

THIS election campaign is a numbers tussle between a moderate left-of-centre Labor Party and a moderately reformist coalition of rural-based Nationals and urban and rural-based Liberals.