Former diplomat Dave Sharma will fight to retain Malcolm Turnbull's seat of Wentworth after local Liberals rejected Scott Morrison's push for a female candidate.
Australia's former ambassador to Israel, Mr Sharma won a late night preselection vote over the party's former deputy state director Richard Shields and former MP Peter King.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
