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Former NSW Liberal Party state director Richard Shields and part of the secret documents.

Revealed: The secret timetable that could have stopped the NSW Liberals’ council fiasco

Secret documents reveal internal party squabbling slowed down a Liberal Party push to be organised ahead of the local government elections.

  • Max Maddison

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Anthony Roberts (left), Alister Henskens and Mark Speakman.

Henskens survives NSW Liberals’ crisis talks after text message revelations

The decision to keep the shadow attorney-general on the frontbench came with the party engulfed in crisis over the failure to nominate 140 candidates in the September 14 council elections.

  • Max Maddison
Last-ditch effort: Liberal Party president Don Harwin has sought a seven-day extension from the NSW Electoral Commission.

Electoral Commission refuses Liberal request for extension to nominate candidates

The party is considering its position overnight and will respond on Sunday, possibly by taking the Electoral Commission to court.

  • Michael Koziol
Richard Shields has been sacked as NSW Liberal Party state director.

Class action on cards after NSW Liberal Party council poll catastrophe

The NSW Liberals sacked state director Richard Shields after a catastrophic blunder left the party without 140 candidates in 16 councils for next month’s local government elections.

  • Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith
Former Liberal minister Don Harwin at the National Art School ArtBar & Kitchen.

Don Harwin elected NSW Liberal president by single vote

The former arts minister’s narrow win was a pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Party’s moderate faction after a decade of dominance in NSW.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
The Australian Museum hosted Jurassic World by Brickman after receiving funding from the NSW government’s blockbuster initiative, which faces cuts in the state budget.

‘Tough calls’: NSW arts, cultural groups lose $190m in budget cuts

The NSW government is warning that tough calls that are likely to be hugely unpopular have been made in its looming budget.

  • Alexandra Smith
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Charlie Teo is greeted by supporters as he leaves the last day of a disciplinary inquiry.

Charlie Teo’s celebrity speaker profile surgically removed from web

The controversial doctor has joined one celebrity speakers’ bureau, selling the embattled surgeon to the world. But a profile with a rival firm has quietly disappeared.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
The MLC Centre in North Sydney won the NSW Architects Enduring Architecture Prize in 2021

Prize-winning high-rise faces wrecking ball after ‘administrative error’

Architects and heritage groups are calling on the NSW government to reinstate the heritage listing of the MLC Building, one of the city’s first high-rise office buildings.

  • Julie Power
Former Liberal minister Don Harwin at the National Art School Art/Bar Kitchen.

Only a fool would write off the PM, says retired MP Don Harwin

“My life has been really changing quite dramatically since December when I ceased being a minister,” says former Liberal MP Don Harwin.

Don Harwin will not contest the next election.

Don Harwin to turn in after 23 years

He is expected to tender his notice of resignation to the Governor on Tuesday.

  • Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook

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