Opinion

State political editor October 28, 2026 — 7:00pm

October 28, 2026 — 7:00pm

When Premier Chris Minns stood up over the weekend and announced the government would reverse ferret on a planned overhaul of train timetables, he sounded like someone who had listened.

The planned changes to the T4, T8 and South Coast lines timetables, he conceded, had been unpopular. Rather than digging in, he was ditching them.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has every incentive to look and sound as little like his federal counterpart as possible.

“I’d rather apologise and backflip on a policy like this than implement a change that people don’t want,” he said.

He sounded, in other words, not at all like the prime minister.

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