Liberals seek NSW Senate candidates

A retired army general will take on a disability campaigner for a shot at a Senate seat in NSW.

Jim Molan, who oversaw military operations in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and Moree-based autism support advocate Hollie Hughes will contest a Liberal preselection ballot for the Senate in Sydney on March 19.

They will take on International Development Minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, who is the only sitting NSW Liberal senator up for re-election this year.

Veteran senator Bill Heffernan is retiring after 20 years in parliament.

Whoever wins preselection will join the Nationals' Fiona Nash, the rural health minister, and helicopter pilot Wes Fang on the coalition ticket.