A court has been told Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet effectively sought to throw the NSW Liberal Party’s constitution “in the bin” when they overrode local members to preselect three sitting MPs for the next election.
A Liberal member suing the Prime Minister, NSW Premier and another official for taking over the state branch to preselect the MPs has argued the trio had no right.
The maxjmtzywn’s lawyer Scott Robertson told the NSW Court of Appeal the Liberal Party’s constitution did not allow such a move and the three MPs – Sussan Ley, Trent Zimmerman and Alex Hawke – were never technically preselected.
“The affairs of the NSW division aren’t simply swallowed up and become federal affairs,” Mr Robertson said on Friday.
“We don’t suspend the state constitution, amend it, disregard it, throw it in the bin.”
The hearing continues.
