In the News
Future News updates relating to the Pittwater Campaign will be covered here
‘The loudest voice speaking against the Liberal Party … is yours’: Branch members’ fury over Kean’s attack
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
NSW Liberals risk having fewer women MPs amid preselection battles
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
Teals set sights on NSW cabinet minister
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,
How 20,000 people changed politics: Behind the scenes of the teal wave
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
NSW government accused of reopening ‘koala wars’ with new forestry bill
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
Liberal MP encircled by teals says party will be in for a fight as NSW indies surge in new polling
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.
Coalition ‘at risk in six seats’ on Climate
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,
Libs fail to fix women problem, and they’ll pay on the north shore
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
The support for teal independents is ‘really on fire’
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
‘We need time’: NSW Liberals fear the teal train is approaching — and the party is acting too slow
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.
Guardian Essential poll: 64% of young voters would consider backing independents in NSW and Victorian elections
The Guardian: 09 September 2022 About half of voters – and more than two-thirds of young people – are considering backing independents at the upcoming
Dominic Perrottet denies teal threat is behind NSW ministers’ bid to move to lower house
The Guardian: 04 October 2022 The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, has denied his party is mounting a coordinated defence against teal independents by
Left push firms for Pittwater
The Daily Telegraph: 04 October 2022 NSW Minister Natasha Maclaren-Jones is firming in her bid to replace Rob Stokes in the seat of Pittwater with
Conservative Liberals embrace at Cpac to celebrate the electoral defeat of ‘lefties’ within the party
The Guardian: 02 October 2022 Teena McQueen tells conference ‘the good thing about the federal election is a lot of those lefties are gone’ while
Why a major party candidate refused Simon Holmes a Court’s cash
Sydney Morning Herald: 1 Oct 2022 She explained that, as a candidate running in a seat the party considered unwinnable, she would receive a box