NSW Liberal powerbroker Michael Photios says the party can return to government at the next state election if it keeps to the political centre and avoids the “dumber and dumber” rightward trajectory of its federal counterparts
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Photios said the NSW Liberal Party needed to remain “centrist and modern while underpinned in Liberal values of inclusion, freedom, enterprise and social justice with opportunity”, and should distance itself from the federal Liberals under Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. That would mean giving head office greater capacity to install candidates and override or prevent local preselections. Special powers exist already but require 90 per cent support from the party’s state executive committee.
The Liberals’ most pressing issue is to select a new parliamentary leader, with Speakman, former science minister Alister Henskens and former planning minister Anthony Roberts regarded as the chief contenders.
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