WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE THE 2015 NSW ELECTION? * Disgraced former NSW Labor MP Eddie Obeid was in 2016 sentenced to a minimum three years in jail for wilful misconduct in public office. * Former NSW Labor MP Ian Macdonald was in 2017 jailed for a minimum seven years after being found guilty of two counts of wilful misconduct in public office. In February 2018 his conviction was quashed and he will face a retrial. * Then-NSW premier Mike Baird announced a ban on greyhound racing in August 2016, which he backflipped on some two months later. * A new emergency services tax to replace the emergency services levy on household insurance policies was announced in 2015. The government backed down on the plan in 2017. * Baird quit politics in January 2017 citing family health challenges and after copping criticism over his controversial council mergers, lock-out laws and the greyhounds backflip. * Then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian stepped up to the top job and was officially sworn in on January 23 in 2017. * The NSW government in late-2015 planned to merge 35 local councils but by mid-2017 abandoned plans to forcibly merge regional councils and 14 Sydney councils. * Ms Berejiklian's decision in late 2017 to knock down and rebuild ANZ and Allianz stadiums at a cost of $2.5 billion caused an immediate backlash. In early 2018 she backed down and chose to refurbish ANZ stadium instead. * The Sydney light rail project has been bungled with several cost blowouts, ongoing delays, a protracted legal battle and a class action. * State budgets focused on getting first homeowners into the market with stamp duty concessions and foreign investors hit with extra property surcharges. * Australia's competition watchdog is challenging a deal made by the NSW government when it privatised Port Botany and Port Kembla claiming it's anti-competitive and illegal. * Labor leader Luke Foley resigned as leader in November 2018 after an ABC journalist claimed he groped her during a parliamentary staff Christmas party. * Foley's deputy, Michael Daley, elected as the new leader. * The NSW corruption watchdog is investigating donations received by the Labor party at a fundraising dinner which were reportedly at the centre of an ICAC raid on Labor NSW's head office in December 2018. * The premier refused to buckle to pressure to implement pill testing after five suspected drug overdose deaths at NSW festivals over four months. She imposed a new licensing scheme instead. Australian Associated Press
The resignation of former NSW premier Mike Baird was one of the key events since the 2015 election.
WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE THE 2015 NSW ELECTION?
* Disgraced former NSW Labor MP Eddie Obeid was in 2016 sentenced to a minimum three years in jail for wilful misconduct in public office.
* Former NSW Labor MP Ian Macdonald was in 2017 jailed for a minimum seven years after being found guilty of two counts of wilful misconduct in public office. In February 2018 his conviction was quashed and he will face a retrial.
* Then-NSW premier Mike Baird announced a ban on greyhound racing in August 2016, which he backflipped on some two months later.
* A new emergency services tax to replace the emergency services levy on household insurance policies was announced in 2015. The government backed down on the plan in 2017.
* Baird quit politics in January 2017 citing family health challenges and after copping criticism over his controversial council mergers, lock-out laws and the greyhounds backflip.
* Then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian stepped up to the top job and was officially sworn in on January 23 in 2017.
* The NSW government in late-2015 planned to merge 35 local councils but by mid-2017 abandoned plans to forcibly merge regional councils and 14 Sydney councils.
* Ms Berejiklian's decision in late 2017 to knock down and rebuild ANZ and Allianz stadiums at a cost of $2.5 billion caused an immediate backlash. In early 2018 she backed down and chose to refurbish ANZ stadium instead.
* The Sydney light rail project has been bungled with several cost blowouts, ongoing delays, a protracted legal battle and a class action.
* State budgets focused on getting first homeowners into the market with stamp duty concessions and foreign investors hit with extra property surcharges.
* Australia's competition watchdog is challenging a deal made by the NSW government when it privatised Port Botany and Port Kembla claiming it's anti-competitive and illegal.
* Labor leader Luke Foley resigned as leader in November 2018 after an ABC journalist claimed he groped her during a parliamentary staff Christmas party.
* Foley's deputy, Michael Daley, elected as the new leader.
* The NSW corruption watchdog is investigating donations received by the Labor party at a fundraising dinner which were reportedly at the centre of an ICAC raid on Labor NSW's head office in December 2018.
* The premier refused to buckle to pressure to implement pill testing after five suspected drug overdose deaths at NSW festivals over four months. She imposed a new licensing scheme instead.
