Liberals ask federal bigwigs to weigh in on NSW election disaster
Exclusive: Crikey was leaked an email sent Wednesday morning by Liberal Party assistant federal director Josh Manuatu — a name that political news tragics may remember from another messy saga.
Liberal Party assistant federal director Josh Manuatu (Image: Facebook)
The Liberal Party has begun accepting submissions to an internal review into the NSW division’s local elections mess — and the point person in the federal office is none other than Josh Manuatu.
Political news tragics might remember Manuatu from another messy affair: the 2019 incident where fake travel figures from the City of Sydney council made their way into a media report. At the time, Manuatu was a staffer for then energy minister Angus Taylor and was identified in an article by The
Anton Nilsson is Crikey's federal political reporter. He previously covered NSW Parliament for NCA NewsWire, and before that, worked for Sweden's Expressen newspaper as well as other publications in Sweden, Australia and the United States.
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Liberals ask federal bigwigs to weigh in on NSW election disaster
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