NSW Liberals expel senior members, refer themselves to election watchdog after branch-stacking inquiry

‘Elaborate and complex’ operation allegedly included more than 100 members and involved people being signed up and given fake email addresses

The New South Wales branch of the Liberal party has referred itself to the state’s election watchdog and is expelling about a half a dozen senior party members following an internal investigation into an allegedly “elaborate and complex” branch-stacking system.

The alleged branch-stacking operation is understood to have included more than 100 members, and involved people being signed up to the party and given fake email addresses in a process that may have been used to influence key votes on policy and preselections.

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