Grattan on Friday: Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In the early hours of Friday morning, the Liberal preselectors of Wentworth delivered their new prime minister a humiliating public slapdown.
In selecting Dave Sharma, 42, former Australian ambassador to Israel and now a partner in an accountancy firm, as the candidate for the October 20 byelection, the preselectors have on all accounts chosen the...
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