NSW Liberal party campaign in crisis after deadlines missed for council election nominations

Party unable to nominate in all of the local government areas that were put forward by the state executive'

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The Liberal party's campaign for the upcoming New South Wales local government elections is in crisis after it missed the deadline to nominate candidates for several councils.

The NSW Liberals were scrambling on Wednesday afternoon to find out how many candidates had been affected by the administrative blunder, which meant the party would probably be missing candidates at the 14 September council elections.

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