‘Not a dictatorship’:Liberals blast Morrison,Hawke over preselection debacle

‘Not a dictatorship’:Liberals blast Morrison,Hawke over preselection debacle

In an email to members,Liberal heavyweights have said the party’s constitution was “twisted and buckled” in NSW. However Morrison’s ally Alex Hawke has hit back.

  • byMichael Koziol

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Tamil family sheds ‘happy tears’ as Labor win paves path home to Biloela

The Sri Lankan asylum seekers at the centre of a years-long grassroots campaign to save them from deportation will finally be allowed to return home to Biloela.

  • byZach Hope
Scott Morrison accused of misleading voters on Biloela family

Scott Morrison accused of misleading voters on Biloela family

Critics swiftly refuted the PM’s claim,made while campaigning with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke,that the government could not issue visas to the family.

  • byDavid Crowe
Barnaby Joyce keeps backing Biloela family as Nationals fight for seat

Barnaby Joyce keeps backing Biloela family as Nationals fight for seat

Friends of the Murugappan family say the issue is changing people’s votes in Flynn,where the Nationals are fighting to retain the seat after the retirement of Ken O’Dowd.

  • byDavid Crowe
Record number of NSW Liberal members quit amid war over preselections

Record number of NSW Liberal members quit amid war over preselections

The internal war within the NSW division of the Liberal Party has seen a mass exodus of members.

  • byAlexandra Smith
High Court dismisses exiled Liberal’s challenge against Scott Morrison

High Court dismisses exiled Liberal’s challenge against Scott Morrison

A legal challenge that threatened to sabotage the Prime Minister’s election campaign has been thrown out by the High Court.

  • byAngus Thompson
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Young Liberals lash Hawke over preselections

Young Liberals lash Hawke over preselections

The young cadres aren’t the only ones angry at the way the Liberal Party in NSW has picked its candidates.

  • byNick Bonyhady andStephen Brook
Liberal preselection challenger kicked out of party due to court case

Liberal preselection challenger kicked out of party due to court case

A member of the NSW Liberals’ state executive who launched a legal challenge over the preselection process has been kicked out of the party.

  • byAngus Thompson andMichael Koziol
Lib challenger to take preselections appeal to High Court

Lib challenger to take preselections appeal to High Court

The High Court will be asked to make the final decision on an extraordinary legal challenge to the validity of Liberal Party preselections.

  • byMichael Koziol
The retiring ministers who’ll become Perrottet’s headache

The retiring ministers who’ll become Perrottet’s headache

The Premier needs to muster his best team for the state election in less than a year. Clearing the decks might not be so easy.

  • byAlexandra Smith
Senator’s grenade reveals growing anger within Liberals over preselections

Senator’s grenade reveals growing anger within Liberals over preselections

Less than two hours after the federal budget was released,Concetta Fierravanti-Wells set off a political firestorm in the Senate.

  • byDavid Crowe