Kristina Keneally's tactic to prorogue parliament is clearly designed to close down an enquiry into the partial privatisation of the state electricity industry.
This $ 5.3 billion deal is controversial on many counts. For a start, the sale price is hugely lower than the initial estimates of it's worth and it removes the price charged for this basic necessity from the public to the private sector.
There are conflicting opinions on whether the enquiry can legally continue, but in the eyes of many this will be seen as an attempt to hide disgraceful facts from the public prior to the March election.
A last, desperate attempt perhaps - because this government is so on the nose that defeat seems certain, so what further damage can an adverse report finding possibly deliver ?
It seems like an attempt to try and hold those final few safe Labor voting seats to at least preserve the rump of the party elite to form an opposition - and retain party leaders with their snouts in the gravy train.
For the next three months there will virtually be no government actively working the levers of power in this state. It will have withdrawn into it's inner fortress - to await the power of the people !
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