{"id":27465,"date":"2018-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/there-was-a-push-within-the-former-labor-government-to-copy-liberal-tram-promise\/"},"modified":"2018-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"there-was-a-push-within-the-former-labor-government-to-copy-liberal-tram-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/there-was-a-push-within-the-former-labor-government-to-copy-liberal-tram-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Push Within The Former Labor Government To Copy Liberal Tram Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>There was a push within the then Weatherill Labor government to follow the Liberal opposition and promise a right turn for North Terrace trams during the election campaign, reports David Penberthy.<\/h3>\n<p>On Sunday the now Liberal government officially ditched its promise to install right turns.<\/p>\n<p>Penbo told the FIVEAA breakfast show on Monday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy understanding is that Labor in government was so paranoid about the damage the Liberal position was doing to its re-election chances\u2026 a bunch of Labor people &#8212; senior people &#8212; said why don\u2019t we just do it ourselves, why don\u2019t we make it turn right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got to the point where the then transport minister Stephen Mullighan had to go to cabinet to do a special presentation to cabinet explaining in dispassionate engineer speak these are all of the reasons why we can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there was a push on within the government to neutralise this as the positive that it had turned into for the Libs to just say, alright, we\u2019re going to do it ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen Mullighan went to cabinet at the behest of other ministers who wanted Labor to copy the Liberal policy to kill it as an issue and said we simply cannot do it, and it\u2019s on that basis that Labor is arguing so strongly now that the government should have known.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/davidandwillpodcast-19november2018\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a push within the then Weatherill Labor government to follow the Liberal opposition and promise a right turn for North Terrace trams during the election campaign, reports David Penberthy. 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