What a difference between Carr and Brogden:

Carr surprises everyone by announcing his retirement. He steps down while accolades pour in, even if there is some debate about how successful his term in office was. And the biggest issues surrounding his departure were, “who can fill such big shoes?” and “will he run for Federal politics?”

Brogden resigns, surprising no-one and amidst several varieties of scandal. No-one wonders or cares what he’ll do next. The question of who will replace him isn’t being particularly debated, and it doesn’t seem like such a difficult step up for his successor.

Most interestingly, perhaps, is that with a change of leadership the NSW Liberals have probably lost whatever advantage they had with a relatively experienced leader vs a newly appointed Labor premier with many problems to fix. It should make for an interesting next couple of years in NSW politics.