Some senior Liberals in Mackellar were convinced a female candidate was needed to take on teal MP Sophie Scamps. Instead, the party chose a man.
Former RSL NSW president James Brown has won Liberal preselection for the once blue-ribbon seat of Mackellar as the party works to wrest the seat back from teal MP Sophie Scamps.
Scamps seized Mackellar as part of a backlash against the Morrison government along with other teal candidates, including Allegra Spender in Wentworth and Kylea Tink in North Sydney. Amid a field dominated by male candidates, the party had been pressured to reopen nominations to allow northern beaches finance executive Sophie Stokes to run.
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