Just as Liberal preselection wars are hotting up in NSW, David Crowe reported in Fairfax Media on Thursday that Victoria Liberal Party powerbrokers are ‘close to a deal to prevent a damaging civil war over the choice of new candidates at the next federal election’.

Putting aside the fact that even leaving sitting member preselections so late when an election can be held from August 4 is unwise, what’s reportedly being proposed in Victoria is no solution when control of the party is the problem.