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Electioncast: How long can Scott Morrison stand behind anti-trans candidate Katherine Deves?

Liberal Warringah candidate Katherine Deves’ history of transphobic posts was the ember that continued to burn over the Easter weekend.

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Katherine Deves claims key role in controversial bill to ban trans women from women’s sport

Embattled Liberal candidate for Warringah says she worked with Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler on ‘Save Women’s Sport’ legislation

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Katherine Deves wasn’t chosen in spite of her views on trans people. She was chosen because of them

As the Warringah candidate’s past catches up with her, her selection shows how she was chosen for, not despite, her anti-trans beliefs.

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Matt Kean renews call for Katherine Deves to be disendorsed in seat of Warringah

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says the Liberal Party's candidate in Warringah is "not fit for office" and her comments threaten the political future of moderates at the upcoming election.

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What Katherine did next

Good morning, early birds. An anonymous senior Liberal source has said Prime Minister Scott Morrison knew Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves was “transphobic” when she was hand-picked for the electorate, and Labor will promise an overhaul of the NDIS. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

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Trent Zimmerman joins Liberals calling for Scott Morrison to dump Katherine Deves over trans comments

The Liberal MP for North Sydney’s request came before NSW treasurer Matt Kean publicly called for the Warringah candidate to be disendorsed

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NSW Liberals should decide whether Katherine Deves is disendorsed, Marise Payne says

Foreign minister says she has made it ‘explicitly clear’ she does not agree with comments made by Warringah candidate

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Liberal candidate Katherine Deves said trans woman were doing “womanface”, claimed gender identity is a ”gift to sex offenders”

New anti-trans revelations hit the PM’s hand-picked candidate for the once-safe Liberal seat of Warringah

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Liberal candidate Katherine Deves said trans women were doing ‘womanface’, claimed gender identity is a ‘gift to sex offenders’

New anti-trans revelations hit the PM’s hand-picked candidate for the once-safe Liberal seat of Warringah.

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Women's Minister Marise Payne refuses to say if Warringah candidate Katherine Deves should be dumped

Women's Minister Marise Payne refuses to say whether she thinks Katherine Deves, who has been forced to apologise multiple times for controversial comments about transgender people, should be removed while fellow Liberal senator Jane Hume describes her as an "excellent" candidate.

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Morrison defends Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens

Scott Morrison and NSW treasurer and leading moderate Matt Kean are publicly at loggerheads over the future of the prime minister’s controversial captain’s pick for the seat of Warringah.

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PM defends ‘captain’s pick’ in Warringah

The prime minister has defended Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves despite her past anti-transgender comments and calls for her disendorsement.

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PM defends 'captain's pick' in Warringah

The prime minister has defended Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves despite her past anti-transgender comments and calls for her disendorsement.

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Scott Morrison faces Liberal mutiny over Warringah candidate Katherine Deves’ trans views

NSW treasurer Matt Kean and long-time Liberal activist Walter Villatora call for Deves to be disendorsed

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Scott Morrison sticks by Katherine Deves after NSW Treasurer calls for Liberal candidate in Warringah to be dumped

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sticks by his controversial pick for the seat of Warringah after the NSW Treasurer said "she's got to go" for her comments about transgender people.

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Greens leader Adam Bandt accuses Prime Minister Scott Morrison of trying to weaponise transgender debate for election campaign

Greens Leader Adam Bandt says Prime Minister Scott Morrison is putting lives at risk, by agreeing with the Liberal candidate for Warringah, who lobbied to stop transgender women from competing in women's sport.

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NSW Liberals reopen nominations in Warringah in race to find candidate to run against Zali Steggall

State executive declines to back the only remaining nominee, Lincoln Parker, as preselection deadlock drags on

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‘It’s disgusting’: NSW Liberal members irate over federal imposition of candidates in prize seats

‘They’ve carpet bombed the entire division’ says one member of NSW state executive as more legal action looms

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Leading Liberal candidate Jane Buncle quits Warringah race, leaving ‘Tony Abbott 2.0’ to contest seat

Local Liberals concede Zali Steggall is likely to retain seat as multiple candidates withdraw over party’s NSW preselection crisis

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The Right stuff: why shellshocked NSW Liberal moderates are fearing factional fights

Tim James’s preselection in Gladys Berejiklian’s former NSW seat shows the growing influence of the hard right in the state

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