Convicted rapist Gareth Ward resigns from NSW parliament moments before he was due to be expelled | Australian politics
In 2013 and 2015, the three immoral attacks, including Kiama member Gareth Ward and two young men who were convicted of rape, resigned just a few minutes before the new Southern South Wales Parliament deported him.
The resignation automatically empties the southern coast seat and a side selection will be made. The seat has been held since 2011 until the liberal party was expelled from the party by Ward and independently working in 2023.
Ward objects to criminal convictions. It will be sentenced next month.
A difficult section for the NSW parliament ends. When he was accused in March 2022, he suspended Ward, but he was able to return after he was accepted independently by Kiama voters.
Ward is currently in prison.
On Monday night, Ward had decided to prevent the parliament from fire, but the Court of Appeal took a precautionary measure on Thursday, and the parliament opened a way to fire it on Friday.
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Chief Justice, Andrew Bell, Justice Anna Mitchelmore and Jeremy Kirk together with the case. Bell, who handed over the decision, said that Ward rejected the arguments he put forward by his lawyers and that the notification of the intention of appeal did not affect the power of expelling it ”.
The speaker should now publish an article for a election under the election law. In practice, it may take several days or weeks to publish the article.
