New South Wales Premier Mike Baird has just copped a record downturn in satisfaction ratings, largely due to one of his government’s most controversial decisions: lock-out laws the total binning of the state’s greyhound racing industry.
The results are pretty incredible: 51% of respondents believe the government should have at least given trainers and their ilk the chance to clean up their act. Here’s some footage we snuck from his office, just after the results went public:
Those stats also put some question marks on his backing from the Nationals, who are probably none too pleased to be associated with a state leader whose judgment call has large swathes of the state significantly miffed.
Feel free to insert your own hound-themed gag right here, but we’re quite fond of “here come the dogs.”
Source: The Australian.
Photo: Pacific Press / Getty.
