‘Rambling rubbish’: inside the battle for the soul of the Liberal party in NSW

Increasingly, members want the federal intervention to end, with a return to the status quo or a streamlined committee of NSW figures put in charge

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Intense discussions are under way within the Liberal party about an alternative to the three-person administrative committee now in control of its NSW branch, with a growing consensus that it must be replaced when the federal executive meets next week.

Younger members of the party have had enough after a scandal triggered by comments by one member of the trio, former Victorian MP Alan Stockdale.