Fresh court challenge filed in Liberal party’s NSW preselection stoush
Infighting over preselecting candidates for the federal election previously led to a special committee briefly taking over the NSW branch
The Liberal party's infighting over preselecting federal candidates is heading back to the supreme court after a member of the NSW state executive began fresh legal action on Tuesday, challenging the federal party's intervention to save two ministers and a sitting MP.
A member of the NSW state executive, Matthew Camenzuli, has filed in the NSW supreme court a challenge to the endorsement of the sitting MPs, which was achieved last week by a brief takeover of the troubled NSW branch by a special committee appointed by the federal party.
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