Nova Peris can't be cancelled, despite anti-Islam posts
Barely recovered from their crushing federal election defeat, the NSW Liberals are already looking forward to their next date with the voters.
Last week, the division opened, and then promptly closed, candidate nominations for the 2027 state election. Aspiring state MPs hoping to join Mark Speakman's (or his successor's) opposition had just a few days to get their paperwork in order.
Given the party's recent history of having preselections delayed until the 11th hour by juvenile, arcane factional disputes, getting the nominations in early is probably wise. But the tight deadline caught a few in the party off-guard, given just how much of Sydney's posher locales are still enjoying Europe's summer.
One person not caught by the quick turnaround for nominations was former federal MP Jenny Ware, who lost the once-safe southern Sydney seat of Hughes to Labor's David Moncrieff in the May election in a result few insiders saw coming.
Nevertheless, Ware wants another crack at elected office, and we hear is challenging Miranda MP Eleni Petinos for preselection. Petinos has a bit of baggage of her own. She was dumped from the ministry by then-premier Dom Perrottet after allegations she bullied her staff.
Not to mention the finest piece of Petinos lore – the time she chundered in the back of former deputy premier John Barilaro's ministerial chauffeur-driven car on the way back from State of Origin in 2017, an incident known as 'barf-gate'.
Ware didn't exactly set the backbench alight during her one term in Canberra. But that means she comes with mercifully less baggage than Petinos, which might give the good preselectors of the Sutherland Shire reason to move on.
Wedding bells in Woollahra
It's a big CBD congratulations to Woollahra Mayor Sarah Swan, who tied the knot with her partner Andrew Dixson at All Saints' Woollahra on Saturday.
Before succeeding former Liberal state director Richard Shields (who was booted from that job after failing to nominate candidates in last year's local government elections), Swan was better known to readers of this masthead as one of the lawyers for eastern suburbs hairdresser Anthony Koletti.
Koletti, in turn, was better known to the general public as the husband of fraudster Melissa Caddick. He was back in the news last week after being charged with assaulting an elderly woman in Vaucluse.
No word, however, on whether Koletti showed up. Or whether the hairdresser, rumoured to have given the occasional blow dry on the house, did Swan's hair.
Balling out
Netball's plan for world domination was on the agenda during a long lunch at Melbourne Park's Centrepiece on Saturday, before the Super Netball grand final at adjacent Rod Laver Arena. Among the 800 guests were Bridget McKenzi e, Nationals senator and demon netballer, and actor Leah Purcell, who once got physical on the court with Australian netball great Vicky Wilson and hasn't let anyone forget it.
Purcell is working on a teen TV drama about a group of girls gunning for the state championships, strategically timed to coincide with the 2027 World Cup in Australia. Speaking of strategic, also in the room was the Brisbane 2032 executive Brendan Keane. Netball Australia chair Liz Ellis made no secret of the sport's Big Ambition, to get netty into the Olympics.
'We will push hard for Olympic inclusion,' Ellis said, urging everyone in the room to pledge their support for the cause. (McKenzie obliged.)
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