Internal Liberal party documents leaked to a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry have detailed how a local council in Sydney’s north-west became ground zero for a years-long power struggle between competing factions.
The documents, tabled by an upper house probe examining allegations of impropriety between Liberal party councillors and property developers in the Hills shire, reveal an unlikely alliance between the moderate and rightwing factions of the party to freeze out federal MP Alex Hawke’s centre-right faction’s power base in Sydney’s north-west.
