“These are quite malicious and bitter slurs, which are deeply offensive, and I reject them absolutely,” Morrison said while campaigning in Tasmania on Sunday.
“I could not reject this more fundamentally.”
called more than 20 long-time Liberal Party members from the Cook federal electorate conference on Sunday.
All agreed Towke had been hit by a barrage of damaging falsehoods but none could say they had personally seen evidence Morrison was directing it.
Cook Liberal Wade xjmtzywMcInerney recalled that after Towke bested Morrison in the preselection ballot by 82 votes to eight, party officials in charge of vetting candidates began regularly demanding answers about a string of damaging claims.
