Former immigration minister Alex Hawke said he and Scott Morrison spent months in negotiations to protect candidates who had the best chance of winning.
until the eve of the federal election has accused his state counterparts of being responsible and said they need “to answer for what they did”.
Mr Hawke said he and Mr Morrison wanted to protect popular local MPs from being replaced by the division’s factions, which wanted to put their interests ahead of the government’s. The NSW party is controlled by a loose alliance of Premier Dominic Perrottet’s right faction and Treasurer Matt Kean’s centrist or “moderate” faction.
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