Peter Poulos suspended from Liberal party, disendorced as NSW election candidate
The NSW Liberal Party has suspended NSW upper house member Peter Poulos from the party for sending intimate photos of another MP five years ago and has dumped him as a candidate at the upcoming state election.
In a torrid 48 hours for the government, the suspension followed Damien Tudehope’s resignation as finance minister on Friday after it emerged he owned shares in Transurban, which controls most of Sydney’s toll roads. Tudehope had been involved in cabinet policy decisions about Transurban. “I’m obviously very close with Robyn Preston; she’s worked for me, we’ve been friends for a very long period of time, and I know the distress at that time that that caused her,” Perrottet said.It was a dramatic change of tune from earlier in the week, when Perrottet said of Poulos that “people make mistakes” and “no one is perfect”.
Leading candidates to replace Poulos on the ticket are two outgoing Liberal MPs – the member for Menai, Melanie Gibbons, who lost preselection for her lower house seat, and upper house member Shayne Mallard, who was replaced in a factional deal to get more women the ticket. “I don’t think there’d be any workplaces, certainly not in the NSW public service, where behaviour like that would not lead to instant dismissal,” Minns had said on Saturday morning.Meanwhile, Perrottet refused to release legal advice from his department which he says cleared Tudehope of knowingly breaching the ministerial code of conduct by failing to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding his Transurban shares.
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