Prominent members included former senator for Western Australia Mathias Cormann and Legislative Councillors Peter Collier and Nick Goiran.
[1] The 2020 Western Australian Liberal Party leadership election was influenced by two of the chat group's members, Collier and Goiran, who backed Zak Kirkup over Dean Nalder.
In a statement made by Nalder upon his retirement announcement a week later, he criticised the factional forces within the Liberal Party, who backed Kirkup over himself.
[11][12][13] The Liberal Reform Coalition, a group formed after the leak of the WhatsApp messages by longstanding factional enemies of Collier and Goiran such as Norman Moore, called for their resignation from the party at their inaugural meeting in December 2021.
[18] On 31 August 2022, media reports indicated that Goiran had been cleared of the charges due to a lack of evidence he had breached any party rules or procedures.
[22] Following Libby Mettam's election as Liberal Party leader in a leadership spill in January 2023, Collier issued an apology for the "inappropriate" language he used in the WhatsApp group.