Liberals dump candidate over sexist podcast remarks

Parties dropping candidates well into campaign despite 'invasive' and 'secretive' vetting process

Several Liberal and Conservative candidates were ousted or resigned due to past indiscretions, highlighting the challenges of thorough vetting.

Liberal Party Drops Candidate Over Comments Opposing Women in Combat Roles

A former serviceman now competing in the next federal election has spoken out after the Liberal Party replaced a candidate for saying women should not serve on the front line. Benjamin Britton, who was running for the seat of Whitlam south of Sydney, was replaced with candidate Nathaniel Smith after comments he made about women in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) recently surfaced. Britton, who described diversity quotas as woke and Marxist, s…

WA Liberal MP and Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says ADF combat is ‘best preserved when it's exclusively male’, as Coalition dumps candidate with similar views

Liberals drop candidate who said women should be removed from ADF combat roles

A Coalition spokesperson said Ben Britton had been disendorsed by the party over views that are "inconsistent with the party's position".

Liberals dump candidate over sexist podcast remarks

David Van, the former Liberal senator banished to the crossbench after alleged inappropriate remarks toward female colleagues, wouldn’t answer questions about his future.

The Liberal Party has dumped the NSW candidate for the seat of Whitlam over claims women shouldn’t be in the army

Peter Dutton has made the big call to dump one of his candidates over some previous comments that caused backlash.