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NSW Liberals state director Richard Shields has been sacked following a “mind-boggling” failure to nominate 150 candidates for local government elections. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting late on Thursday night, the party’s state president Don Harwin said its executive had unanimously decided to terminate Shields’ employment over the fiasco. “The state director was given the opportunity to explain the circumstances to the state executive,” Harwin said.
The powerbroker and former state minister had volunteered to run the local government nomination process, with the executive only picking the last candidate two hours before nominations closed, Shields said. “There must be a proper review of the nomination process to establish the full facts,” he said. According to Shields, some 440 candidates were to be nominated, but electoral commission data shows only 281 made the cut.
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