Australia Today Update: David Elliott's retirement over a factional brawl now puts pressure on Health Minister Brad Hazard to remain

Closer to home, another state cabinet minister has refused to commit publicly to staying beyond the March election. David Elliott's retirement over a factional brawl now puts pressure on Health Minister Brad Hazard to remain. He says the transport minister's departure is.

Just an internal matter at the glistening expanded state-of-the-art emergency department at Hornsby Kringai Hospital. So this is really my perspective, a.

The positive preelection announcement and ministers understandably wanted it to stay on message. We are here to talk about the community and the hospital.

My interest is more in the future of the coalition government with an exodus of senior ministers in my future will.

Be determined to the fullest of time. Would you retire if you were asked to do preselection? I think you should think about retirement if you keep asking those sorts of questions.

David Elliott will retire after being told to seek preselection elsewhere and make way for a debutante. Noel McCoy in Castle Hill, the Liberal Party's religious right backs McCoy over a five-time minister simply because he is in their faction.

If this were a company, could you imagine shareholders tolerating somebody who's been a board of directors being turfed for the work experience? Kit well, what we want to see is strong, experienced people continuing to serve their communities.

In this instance, the shareholders of New South Wales Government Incorporated. Are you the voter? And when it comes to factional power plays, whether it be Liberal, Labor, national or Greens, the voter is rarely, if. Ever, considered struggle between the center right in the middle and the new far right, which governs with the support of the moderates on the left. And so, as you can imagine, it's a bit of a pinch of maneuver and it's very, very messy.