The Sydney Morning Herald: 8 December 2022 The NSW Liberals’ Pittwater branches have demanded the party’s powerful state council censure Treasurer Matt Kean for claiming members are out of touch after he was scathing of the preselection of a male “junior staffer” over the state’s most senior female Liberal. His criticism also came ahead of …
The Sydney Morning Herald: 25 November 2022 In the neighbouring seat of Pittwater, which is being vacated by senior minister Rob Stokes, Northern Beaches Liberal councillor Rory Amon is the frontrunner after Families and Communities Minister Natasha Maclaren-Jones, who sits in the upper house, withdrew from the race. Lawyer Claire Longley, whose father Jim Longley …
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The Sydney Morning Herald: 20 November 2022 Environment minister James Griffin is the first target of the Climate 200 group for the March state election, after teal candidates swept to victory throughout the country in this year’s federal poll. Simon Holmes à Court’s crowdfunding group has backed independent challenger Joeline Hackman for the state seat …
The Sydney Morning Herald: 11 November 2022 Few were seasoned activists. Others had crossed party lines. A 20,000-strong volunteer force with unseen social, familial and digital links proved pivotal to the success of the “teal” independents in May’s federal election. And what they lacked in experience, they made up for in number. Climate 200 calculates …
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The Guardian: 9 November 2022 Liberals criticised after proposing councils be stripped of approval powers for logging operations. The Perrottet government has been accused of reopening the “koala wars” by proposing legislation that would strip New South Wales councils of their powers to regulate native forestry operations on private land. The agriculture minister, Dugald Saunders, …
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Crikey: 9 November 2022 The Liberal Party takes nothing for granted in Sydney’s north as residents in the area tell pollsters they’re considering voting teal. A state Liberal MP surrounded by federal teals on Sydney’s north shore says she’s up for a serious fight as new NSW election polling reveals independents are looking even stronger …
The Australian: 7 November 2022 Seat-by-seat polling suggests the NSW Coalition is in danger of losing several electorates to teal independents at the March election, with the primary vote of Environment Minister James Griffin perilously low, leaving him at significant risk of being bundled out of parliament. Undertaken by the Redbridge Group on behalf of …
Sydney Morning Herald: 27 October 2022 Families and Communities Minister and upper house MP Natasha Maclaren-Jones wasted no time throwing her hat in the ring for a tilt at the northern beaches seat of Pittwater as soon as Infrastructure Minister Rob Stokes confirmed he would be retiring from state parliament. It was just an hour …
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Sky News: 11 October 2022 Redbridge Group Director Simon Welsh says the support for teal independents through Northern suburbs and Northern Beaches areas of NSW is “really on fire”. “The support there for that vote shifting off the Liberal party to those independents is like nowhere else. We’re seeing a little bit of it here …
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Crikey: 07 October 2022 The NSW premier has downplayed concerns safe Liberal seats could fall to independents at the March election, but some are worried. Public blustering aside, NSW Liberals are privately worried a group of independent candidates will paint northern Sydney teal at the March state elections. Several Liberal sources who spoke to Crikey …