NSW treasurer savaged his party’s preselection processes and warned that the community expects more diversity in its parliaments
Ward, who is the state’s women’s safety and roads minister, was looking to move into the lower house after the resignation of the speaker, Jonathan O’Dea. She was defeated in the preselection by former Mike Baird staffer Matt Cross under NSW’s one-member-one-vote rules.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup
“The community sent a very strong message not only to the Liberal party but to all political parties that they want to see more diversity in our parliaments,” he said. “We need to make sure that we are looking at our processes to ensure that we are reflecting the sentiment, otherwise the community is going to take it into its own hands and reject Liberal candidates that don’t reflect the community values that they expect.”
Former federal Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who lost his seat at the March election to a teal candidate, has also warned his state colleagues to take care in candidate selection after disastrous results in Victoria at the weekend. “As the NSW Liberal party finalises its own selections, it must be vigilant in this regard as there is little tolerance for candidates with views on the fringes in a modern major political party.
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