The idea that the Liberal Party would take up valuable court time to remedy its own stuff-up is an insult to taxpayers and voters.
for up to 140 NSW local government candidates would be about as bad as it gets. But no: the geniuses running the party have spent the past three days proving rock bottom may still be some way off.
The acting commissioner came back on Saturday and said “no”: the only logical answer given party leaders had spent days venting the spleen about how this disaster was entirely self-inflicted. Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said it best when he told reporters last week: “Our party administration has let the candidates, the party members and the general public down. This is a debacle. There’s no other way to describe it.” Indeed.
The Liberals are clutching at straws. While the electoral commission may have given two days less formal notice on its website that nominations were about to close, it is absurd to suggest the Liberal Party had not known for months what the closing date was. In fact, the nomination date was first revealed in October 2023. It has since been communicated repeatedly online, via print and social media, and directly to political parties.
The post was desperate and embarrassing. How on earth is this Labor’s problem to fix? And does anyone really believe the Liberal Party would interfere in the independent electoral process to help out Labor had Sussex Street stuffed up its nominating process?
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