Labor's Ferguson 賞賛するs Baird's courage
Labor heavyweight ツバメ Ferguson has heaped 賞賛する on 保守的な 首相 マイク Baird and 勧めるd the ALP to 再考する its 対立 to electricity privatisation should it lose the NSW 選挙.
The former 連邦の 資源s 大臣 in the Rudd and Gillard 政府s 爆破d 対立 Leader Luke Foley for "階級 opportunism" and "露骨な／あからさまの scaremongering" over his 約束 to keep the Pilliga Forest 解放する／自由な from coal seam gas, 脅すing a large Santos 事業／計画（する） in the area.
Mr Ferguson, who is chairman of the Australian 石油 生産／産物 and 探検 協会 （a）忠告の／（n）警報 Board, made the comments at a gas 産業 会議 in Sydney.
He also 賞賛するd Mr Baird's courage to 輪郭（を描く） his 見通し on the 政治上 tricky area of electricity privatisation.
"I think it's 現実に やめる 勇敢な to take on a major 政策 審議 in this day and age and to 危険 political oblivion as Michael Baird has done ーに関して／ーの点でs of the 可能性のある 結果 of the 選挙," he told reporters at the Australian 国内の Gas 見通し 会議／協議会.
Mr Ferguson even seemed to に例える Mr Baird to former Labor 首相 Gough Whitlam.
"If the Baird 政府 勝利，勝つs the 審議 about privatisation, I must say to be fair, now I think 支援する to the way Whitlam took on the `72 選挙; he 現実に had a 壇・綱領・公約 of change. He went out and argued it and won the 権利 to do things," he said.
"If Luke Foley 現実に loses on Saturday, then I think he should revisit his 告示 of last 週末 in 条件 of privatisation."
Mr Ferguson 否定するd his 批評s of Mr Foley's 姿勢 are to help the 連合 at the 投票s, or that he had any 意向 of leaving Labor.
He says he has long held - and been 声の - about his 見解（をとる）s on privatisation.
"That was my position as the 大臣, and may I also remind you when Labor was in 政府 from 2007 to 2013, the 連邦の Labor 政府 supported the endeavours of Queensland Labor and NSW Labor to 現実に privatise the electricity system," he said.
"So I'm the one that has been 一貫した all the way through."
