State taint: PM should prepare for stampede ANYBODY who thinks developments in state politics in NSW cannot influence the fate of a Labor prime minister should cast their mind back to Saturday, June 19, 2010. On that day, the former state Labor government suffered a swing against it of 25.7 per cent at a by-election in Penrith, in outer-western Sydney, that was triggered by the first of what was to become a cascading series of corruption scandals.