NSW Premier Mike Baird has acknowledged that recent furore around lockouts, anti-protest laws and council amalgamations has reduced his popularity in the eyes of the public – but he doesn’t regret using social media to broadcast his policy thoughts and ideas.
On the one-year anniversary of the state election, social media response to Baird – initially glowingly positive – has taken a nosedive as he uses the platforms to defend unpopular policy. “I think that’s a natural thing,” Baird told the ABC. “The longer you are in government the more people are going to respond, the more decisions that you’re making … some of them not popular.”
Anyone who remembers the volume of the roasting in this comment thread will probably agree that ‘some of them not popular’ is certainly one way of putting it when discussing social media.
Let’s start with a statistic about Sydney’s nightlife that matters: alcohol related assaults have decreased by 42.2 per…
Posted by Mike Baird on Monday, February 8, 2016
This was the equivalent of your mates absolutely going in on you in the group chat for your deadshit conduct, except you have 4 million mates.
“Every decision you make some people will be upset, and some people will protest against it for a short time or a long time,” Baird said. “My hope is what people are seeing is we are governing in the majority.”
He says he’s most proud of the infrastructure and public transport investment of his Government – but that he defends his Government’s platform in it’s entirety.
Source: ABC News.
Image: Getty Images / Mark Kolbe.
