It is time for the people of NSW to take a stand, to say enough is enough. The politics of NSW has ceased to be concerned mainly with the delivery of services or about its development and the welfare of its citizens, and has turned into an expression of the Labor Party's civil war.

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We appreciate that the new Premier, Kristina Keneally, is simply the most recent draftee to this war. The petition we are launching today is not about her. It is about a system of government that locks the people of NSW into a four-year fixed electoral cycle, that reduces the voters to bystanders in an endless rotation of ministers and premiers - with no way of bringing on an election.

The people of NSW, who elected Morris Iemma in 2007, have seen that choice overturned, and overturned again, until they now have a government they scarcely recognise. And that government is overseeing a decline in the quality of services to the public. Hospitals are understaffed and over budget. They cannot pay their bills. Waiting lists for elective surgery are growing. Public transport is in disarray and its future is in doubt for want of adequate planning. Roads, railways, buses and ferries are dilapidated. So are our schools. Police resources are stretched. Looming over all the problems, explaining them and perpetuating them, is a budget shortfall that results from the Government's inherent inability to manage its affairs or anything else. The failure to privatise the power industry - an attempt undermined by Labor's union allies - has kept the budget on the edge of crisis.

Labor has been governing not for the people but for itself. In turning its back on NSW, the Government has forgotten where its duty, and the source of its power, lie - the voters of NSW.