While the Liberal Party’s NSW director Richard Shields attended the opening of a children’s playground on Wednesday, staff were “in meltdown” over a catastrophic failure to nominate council candidates before deadline.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.On Tuesday night, local Liberals filed into the Market Street offices of a communications firm to launch the party’s campaign for next month’s City of Sydney council election.
And they were not alone. We now know the NSW Liberal Party failed or partially failed to nominate 140 candidates across 16 local government areas, with party leader Mark Speakman pinning the blame on state director Richard Shields, who has been in the role nearly a year. Shields was appointed state director in September, having been head of government relations at Westpac and the Insurance Council of Australia. He had only just been elected mayor of Woollahra by his fellow councillors, and opted to stay in that role too.
Furthermore, Shields said he remained as mayor because of “strident antisemitism in my community” following the atrocities of October 7 in Israel, “and the leadership was happy with that position”.
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