Upper house probe heard claim that Jean-Claude Perrottet sought $50,000 to fund branch stacking
Former Hills Shire Liberal party mayor Michelle Byrne told the inquiry on Thursday that she had suspected “something was going on” in the party after she and most of her council colleagues were ousted in the lead up to the last NSW local government elections.
Byrne repeatedly told the inquiry she had no evidence of wrongdoing, but believed she had been targeted by party insiders because of a perception that she was “anti-development”. “[To] get the pain-in-the-butt mayor out of the way who is perceived as [being] anti development and have a better chance of getting things through without me in the way and jacking up,” she said.
Byrne told the inquiry that while she had no “direct conversations” to suggest that, she had been told by then councillor Robyn Preston, who is now a state Liberal MP, that “my problem is I’m too anti development”. “I think it was certainly probably in the last couple of years where I really got to feel … that if I didn’t change my stance on development, if I didn’t become more ‘yeah that’s OK’ and not vocal, than it was going to cost me.”
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