This week in The Fin podcast, national reporter Samantha Hutchinson on why the NSW race is tight, whether the Coalition government can cling onto power and what message that would send to Peter Dutton.

Background reading:

• Chris Minns, the pragmatist aiming for the top After 12 years in the wilderness, the Labor leader thinks the timing is finally right to seize the top job in NSW.
• Dominic Perrottet: The ‘anti-pollie politician’ He’s a fierce economic and social conservative at heart. But he’s also been billed as one of the most innovative political leaders in the country.
• Perrottet’s future fund for kids to cost up to $710 million per year The proposal, the centrepiece of the Liberal’s reelection pitch, has come under fire from economists.

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