Alt-right link to NSW role

SENIOR NSW Nationals are “dumbfounded” a figure linked to the recent alt-right infiltration of the party’s youth wing has been appointed to a plum ministerial job.

Jeff McCormack has been appointed chief of staff to state Water Minister Melinda Pavey. He was named in Parliament by Labor’s Walt Secord in 2018, who asked if the Nationals planned to expel him over an infiltration of the organisation by alleged neoNazis and white supremacists. There’s no suggestion Mr McCormack holds neo-Nazi or white supremacist views.