Mike Baird proposes GST compromise plan to fund health and education Read more“My father has gone through open-heart surgery, he’s got a long road back to recovery. But Baird said the greatest regret of his premiership was “the lack of outcome in the [national] tax reform debate”. It has long been speculated that Baird and Berejiklian had struck a Kirribilli agreement-style pact over succession, though Baird, again, denied this on Thursday. “There were some tough things last year, but every government goes through tough things. The impact of his premiership on his family, and on his desire to spend more time with them, was Baird’s leitmotif in retiring.

Source: The Guardian January 19, 2017 02:41 UTC