Ponting a victim of lack of political plotting

There is nothing newspapers like better than a leadership coup but those rotten politicians have not been very obliging in recent weeks with scarcely an excuse for journalists to get the rumour mill going. Hence, no doubt, the attention being paid to Ricky Ponting and his future as captain of the Australian cricket team. In the absence of a Prime Minister, Premier or even a Leader of the Opposition for the media to get its teeth into, the Punter will have to do.
But maybe, just maybe, relief for Ponting is at hand - at least in the city which the expatriate Tasmanian has made his home. This morning the Sydney Daily Telegraph has taken the egg beater to the future prospects of newly installed Premier Nathan Rees with political writer Simon Benson raising the prospect of him having only a short life expectancy. "ALP plotters stir the pot already over Rees' leadership" said the headline under which Simon Benson wrote that NSW Labor Party bosses have been secretly canvassing backbenchers to gauge waning support for Nathan Rees in the party room, just two months after he was installed as Premier.
The idea that the NSW Labor Party would actually consider installing a new Premier before the next election is so preposterous that perhaps it is true. No stranger than the suggestion from the cricket writers that Australia needs a new captain because Ricky Ponting dared to try and play the game within the spirit of the rules and bowl the correct number of overs in a day.



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