A federal committee, which includes former NSW minister Rob Stokes, will take charge of the NSW Liberals.
The NSW Liberals will be forced into a federal takeover for 10 months from September 12, with all powers to be delegated to a committee made up of former Victorian senator Richard Alston, ex-Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale and former NSW minister Rob Stokes.
The decision followed a federal executive meeting on Tuesday afternoon, which met to consider a report from former federal party director Brian Loughnane into the NSW Liberals’ spectacular failure to nominate 140 candidates in 16 councils ahead of this month’s local government elections.Dion GeorgopoulosDetails of Loughnane’s report, which was presented to the federal executive, have not yet been released publicly but it was commissioned to investigate the embarrassing administrative bungle.
The federal takeover will cause huge unrest in the moderate faction, which is the largest grouping in NSW, with many seeing it as political opportunism from the right of the party.“The NSW Liberal Party will now be run by two Victorians, with Rob Stokes added for window dressing. The message Peter Dutton has sent to the NSW Liberals that he wants the party run by a committee that is old, white and right,” the Liberal, who cannot speak publicly due to party rules, said.
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