Commentary The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delayed calling the election because the Liberal Party engaged in a preselection stoush, which impeded efforts to nominate candidates in 12 seats in the state of New South Wales (NSW). As a member of a three-person committee, the prime minister exercised a “captain’s pick” and preselected candidates in those seats. Specifically, the conflict that resulted in the federal executive’s intervention in the preselection process concerned challenges to sitting members of parliament, some of whom are ministers. Further, businessman Matthew Camenzuli, who disagreed with the power of the federal executive to intervene in the process of selecting candidates, initiated court action in NSW to have the preselection of the candidates declared invalid. However, the NSW Court of Appeal decided that political issues are not justiciable—a correct decision from a constitutional point of view—but it exceeded its role when it indicated in its judgment that …