Could Dutton use the NSW Liberal chaos to pull the party to the right?
This week the federal opposition leader, Peter Dutton, staged an intervention of the NSW Liberals. The bold move follows weeks of chaos in the state branch after an unprecedented administrative bungle saw 140 candidates excluded from the upcoming council elections. Reged Ahmad speaks to our NSW state correspondent, Tamsin Rose, and chief political correspondent, Paul Karp, about what this week’s extraordinary federal intervention of the state branch means for the party