Perrottet government faces challenge from new wave of teals in NSW’s 2023 state election

Community-based groups are already setting up campaign infrastructure and looking for suitable candidates for the NSW state election in 2023. Photograph: Mark Evans/Getty Images

The Perrottet government will face a wave of community-based independent candidates at the next state election running on platforms of integrity in NSW politics, sustainability and local development issues.

Community-based groups, some of which include people who worked on federal campaigns for “teal” candidates, are being set up along the north shore of Sydney and in the east.