{"id":37739,"date":"2026-03-04T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37739"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:40:27","slug":"chris-minns-gives-up-on-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/chris-minns-gives-up-on-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Minns gives up on NSW?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premier Chris Minns has given up on the people of NSW after admitting today he doesn&#8217;t have a long-term plan to lead NSW.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>When asked about his vision for NSW after the opening of Sydney Metro West in 2032, the Premier revealed the only thing on his mind was not being Premier saying: \u201cWell, I won\u2019t be here, at least in this role&#8230;\u201d \u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>This revelation confirms much of the speculation about the Premier&#8217;s plans to resign part way through the next term with an anonymous source telling the Sydney Morning Herald: &#8220;they would expect Minns to stand down early into the next term of parliament.\u201d\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>It\u2019s now clear why the Minns Labor Government has no long-term vision or plan for future infrastructure, like new Metros, because Chris Minns won\u2019t be in the job for much longer.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>The question voters deserve answered is which member of Minns\u2019 incompetent team will lead Labor when he pulls the pin?\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Will it be Yasmin Catley, who has overseen an explosion in gangland violence or Ryan Park, who has overseen a deadly fungal cluster in a NSW hospital, will it be Jo Haylen, who resigned in disgrace over the misuse of her Ministerial driver, or will it be someone handpicked by faceless union bosses?\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>NSW deserves to know who they are voting for at the next election if Chris Minns doesn\u2019t intend to serve a full term.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>While the Premier has made his future clear the future of NSW under Labor is mired in uncertainty. \u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>I\u2019m committed to the long term and will lead a team that backs families, strengthens communities and plans for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Chris Minns has given up on the people of NSW after admitting today he doesn&#8217;t have a long-term plan to lead NSW.\u00a0\u00a0When asked about his vision for NSW after the opening of Sydney Metro West in 2032, the Premier revealed the only thing on his mind was not being Premier saying: \u201cWell, I won\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/chris-minns-gives-up-on-nsw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chris Minns gives up on NSW?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37741,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions\/37741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}