The Liberal Party has asked a court to throw out a statement of claim from a former ministerial staffer and stop her airing the party's dirty laundry.
Natalie Baini took the Liberal Party's NSW division to court in December alleging she was blocked from being preselected to contest the inner west Sydney seat of Reid at the 2019 election.
She ran as an independent in 2022 but was unsuccessful in securing the seat, which fell to Labor's Sally Sitou.
Ms Baini is also suing former federal minister Craig Laundy, whom she worked for as a casual staffer and claims she had a relationship with.
She told the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday attempts to mediate the matter have been unsuccessful.
The Liberal Party's barrister Matt Davis said he did not know about any mediation occurring.
"Certainly I haven't been involved in that, nor has my instructor," he said.
He asked to apply for Ms Baini's amended statement of claim to be struck out.
"It provides no reasonable course of action," he said.
Ms Baini said evidence was arising in both her court actions suggesting a former minister had sworn false documents and it had been concealed by a party director.
"Statutory declarations underpin our notion of truth and integrity in our society, and there's been a somewhat cavalier attitude towards them across government and politics," she said.
People have evidence and want the protection of a subpoena to provide it, Ms Baini said, adding the allegations were serious matters.
"They are punishable by imprisonment if found to be true," she said.
Striking out the statement of claim would remove important evidence, Ms Baini said.
Ms Baini is a lawyer and is representing herself in the matter,
Mr Davis said she still needed to respect the "absolute privilege" protecting her from defamation action for comments made in court.
"To the extent she wants to raise extraneous matters, she should confine herself," he said.
"It does not amount to the soapbox in Hyde Park."
Registrar Karen Jones said Mr Davis was able to bring the motion and Ms Baini could present evidence opposing it at the next appearance on March 9.
