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How a gender warrior hijacked the 2022 election

How a gender warrior hijacked the 2022 election

Political novice Katherine Deves was grossly under-prepared to become the best-known new candidate of the year.

The battle for Warringah wasn’t meant to trigger the culture war of 2022.

The NSW Liberal Party’s “moderate” faction had lined up an uncontroversial disabilities candidate, David Brady, to run against entrenched independent Zali Steggall in the Sydney electorate, which includes Mosman and Manly.

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