Morrison and Perrottet fail in bid to have high court resolve NSW preselection crisis

Labor targets attorney general for engaging top lawyer at taxpayer expense for NSW Liberal party factional war'

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Scott Morrison and the New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, have failed in a bid to have the high court rule on their power to handpick candidates for the federal election.

On the same day, the high court also refused to hear challenges to the federal Labor intervention in the Victorian branch.

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