The treasurer was incensed after hearing a senior staffer was discouraged from running for preselection and told to focus on having children
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has said it was “disgraceful” an ambitious senior female Liberal staffer was told she should focus her attention on having children.
or any other organisation for that matter, and so they should be repudiated in the strongest possible terms.”The report also claims Ms Raffoul, who is transport minister David Elliott’s chief of staff, was criticised by her colleagues for being opinionated and assertive. It comes after two of the party’s most senior female MPs, Metropolitan Roads Minister Natalie Ward and Disability Services MinisterMs Maclaren-Jones withdrew from the preselection race for Pittwater after taking the numbers on competitor Rory Amon. Ms Ward lost her battle for Davidson to junior Liberal staffer Matt Cross in a result Mr Kean said he was “devastated” about.
Shortly after, Transport Minister David Elliott slammed the party’s preselection process in a LinkedIn post, saying “we’ve seen high calibre ladies thrown under the bus” in the seats of Davidson, Pittwater, Camden and Riverstone.“Each time against blokes who would struggle to inspire to get me out of bed in the morning,” Mr Elliott wrote.
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