Two of the Liberal Party’s biggest donors in NSW are the young adult children of a south-western Sydney deputy mayor, who gave a total of $15,000 to the party last financial year.

Liverpool Council deputy mayor Fiona Macnaught’s son and daughter, who both graduated from high school in the past four years, contributed $7500 each to rank among the party’s top 15 individual donors across its state and local government accounts in 2024-25.

Their donations were just shy of the state’s $8100 individual donation cap.

Another Liberal Liverpool councillor, 23-year-old Matthew Harte, donated $7945 to the party, with his parents, Denis and Fiona Harte, also chipping in $12,900 between them.

The Macnaught and Harte families, both allies of Liverpool’s Liberal mayor Ned Mannoun, donated nearly $39,

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