LIBERAL operatives who manoeuvred to impose Party newcomer Katherine Deves onto Warringah voters have been labelled “factional rats” who should resign. In a ruinous start to her federal election campaign, PM Scott Morrison’s hand-picked candidate – who had previously supported Zali Steggall’s…
WARRINGAH Liberals are in open dispute with their Party hierarchy with some demanding the sacking of the State’s most senior Party officials. As factional games drag on, anger is increasing towards NSW Liberal President Philip Ruddock and his State Director Chris Stone. …
FORMER NSW Family Minister Gareth Ward has been told he doesn’t belong in the Liberal Party and that he should quit parliament immediately. These demands from NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet follow Mr Ward being charged earlier this week with multiple counts of…
by PAUL COLLITS – ELECTIONS are suddenly in the air, now competing for column and screen space with war, floods and a (fading) megastar virus. Whether you are a genuine, probably disgruntled, conservative, an outsider or merely a jaded and befuddled swinging…
THE former blue ribbon federal seat of Warringah has been designated a “Left only” zone, as the Liberal Party refuses to endorse the only legitimate candidate standing. Defence expert and Warringah local Lincoln Parker, who is factionally unaligned, has been refused endorsement…
THE Liberal Party’s once-dominant Left faction has suffered a surprising blow after failing to install its candidate into Gladys Berejiklian’s former seat of Willoughby. Menzies Research Centre director Tim James snatched preselection for the former NSW premier’s stomping ground 58-52 and is…
LIBERAL Party members are baffled that former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian is being courted to contest Warringah despite her ongoing case before the State’s corruption commissioner. According to reports in The Australian newspaper, Ms Berejikian is being pursued by Prime Minister Scott…
IT IS fashionable to have an informal law named after someone relevant to the circumstances giving rise to the “law”. Often, sadly, they emerge from tragedy. Chloe’s Law in NSW relates to the implementation of protections for the victims of physical and…
AFTER ICAC’s attempt to destroy that model of integrity, Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cuneen, was scuttled by the High Court, the NSW government should have accepted the advice of this column and not allowed that monstrous carbuncle to live one minute more. As…
DOMINIC Perrottet’s deal with the Left to secure his premiership increasingly appears to be dominating his government. He’s saying all the right things but it’s his actions that are being watched. Each incremental step to the Right now appears to be followed…
