A party with vaulting ambitions for grabbing hold of the balance of power with a big picture agenda has discovered the script has been hijacked from within.
Conservatives wrote to party members saying Mark Speakman had made “sad” claims and “issued a blatant challenge to the leadership of Peter Dutton”.
Secret documents reveal internal party squabbling slowed down a Liberal Party push to be organised ahead of the local government elections.
The decision to keep the shadow attorney-general on the frontbench came with the party engulfed in crisis over the failure to nominate 140 candidates in the September 14 council elections.
2GB shock jock outs two “cowardly” conservative Liberal MPs,Alister Henskens and Anthony Roberts,claiming the pair have been privately texting him to undermine Mark Speakman.
The annual NSW Labor state conference is often dominated by domestic policy,but events in the Middle East look set to overshadow this weekend’s gathering.
Former MP Graham Watt,who refused to stand for family violence campaigner Rosie Batty when she addressed parliament,is aiming to be party president.
If the NSW Coalition can almost fall apart over a juvenile spat,the leader must take change and reassert his authority.
Rogue Labor senator Fatima Payman is being advised by controversial election strategist Glenn Druery.
A 96-hour civil war between the NSW Liberals and Nationals was resolved late on Monday night with negotiations brokered by former premier Dominic Perrottet.
The prime minister and the young Muslim senator are at loggerheads as Payman says she has been told to resign.