Premier Dominic Perrottet says the party made the right call in deciding to dump Matthew Squires, but others say it shows that more care needs to be taken ahead of time.
abc.net.au/news/wyong-liberal-nsw-election-candidate-disendorsed/102093200There are calls for better vetting processes in the New South Wales Liberal Party after a candidate was disendorsed over homophobic and Islamophobic comments he made online.Dominic Perrottet says the party made the right decisionThe party said the media made it aware of the comments by Wyong candidate Matthew Squires before an internal investigation was conducted and he was disendorsed.
"There is no place for those views in our party and he's been disendorsed, as he should have been, and I completely back that decision."Former Liberal Party member and Peninsula Chamber of Commerce president Matthew Wales said it was clear better vetting processes needed to be in place."It comes back to a systematic problem with the Liberal Party, where they seem to leave it way too late to select candidates for the state elections," he said.
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