MEDIA RELEASE
Nov 12, 2008
NSW backlash: Coalition charge into
$1.55 to win election!
Punters – seemingly as angry as all citizens in every corner of NSW – are
charging in now to back the Coalition to win the next NSW State election
in the wake of the slash-and-burn Labor mini budget!
Centrebet’s media chief and political analyst Neil Evans said he had firmed the
Opposition from $1.70 into $1.55, despite the next election being two years away, with
the imploding Labor government easing from $2.10 out to $2.30!
“We already had 90 per cent of nearly $20,000.00 that had been wagered on the
Coalition leading up to and following the embarrassing meltdown of the Morris
Iemma team,” Evans said. “Now punters just want to back the Coalition, almost
regardless of the price. More money has come in overnight, and this may just be the
start of a financial landslide over the next two years!
“Let’s fact it, the economic and decision-making incompetence of this government is
so in-grained that if the State voted tomorrow, the Coalition would be $1.01. But let’s
not personally cut Premier Nathan Rees to pieces, this is seemingly the eruption from a
slow-burning volcano of mismanagement and non-accountability that’s infested NSW
since the Bob Carr days.
“It’s incredible to think it wasn’t that long ago the NSW Coalition threw away a
chance at the ballot box because the party was considered rudderless, now in a
managerial sense, they can look like decorated peacekeepers!”
Evans said it would be easier to sell ice to Eskimos than a price on Labor to win the
next election. “It’s only time that’s keeping them in the contest, considering we’ve
already witnessed mass anti-Labor feeling at crucial NSW State by-elections, as well
as various other State elections since Kevin Rudd took over at the Federal level 12
months ago!”
The NSW mini budget backlash has also resonated with Federal betting, the Coalition
firming from $3.25 into $3.00 today, with Labor easing from $1.30 out to $1.35! And, in
perhaps a more immediate and critical sign, punters have backed the Opposition in
Qld from $2.90 down to $2.75 ahead of the Sunshine State’s election in a few months!
NSW ELECTION – WINNER (Sch: 2010/11)
$2.30
LABOR
(out from $2.10)
$1.55
COALITION
(in from $1.70)
AUST FED ELECTION – WINNER (Sch: 2011)
$1.35
LABOR
(out from $1.30)
$3.00
COALITION
(in from $3.25)
QLD STATE ELECTION – WINNER
$1.40
LABOR
(out from $1.36)
$2.75
COALITION
(in from $2.90)
Media contact
Neil Evans
+61 2 9206 8759 (office)
+61 418 278022 (mobile)
neil.evans@centrebet.com
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