Published: 23 November 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Sharma to contest next election as Liberals get Wentworth payday (Fairfax)
Former ambassador Dave Sharma wants to contest the seat of Wentworth in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs at the federal election next year. Mr Sharma would not comment on his intention on Monday but several Liberal party sources said he definitely wanted to run, after he narrowly lost the former blue-ribbon seat to independent Kerryn Phelps last month.
View from The Hill: What about a Jerusalem consulate as a Morrison escape hatch? (The Conversation)
Q&A panel clash over moving Australia's Israel embassy to Jerusalem (Guardian)
Special minister of state Alex Hawke says there are ‘very good arguments’ for shift, but Labor’s Mark Dreyfus calls it a ‘monumental blunder’
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This is the moment': activists warm to the task of ousting Tony Abbott (Guardian)
The organisation’s advisory committee includes Dr David Adler, who is president of the Australian Jewish Association, set up a couple of years ago to advance conservative Jewish values, the former ABC chairman and business executive Maurice Newman, who has been an outspoken climate change sceptic, and Sam Kennard, head of the storage empire, who ran as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2015 North Sydney byelection.
