It's unclear who will fight to become the next NSW Labor leader with no contenders officially emerging on the day nominations opened.
Nominations for the leadership opened at 2pm on Wednesday and will close on Friday, two months after the party was roundly defeated by the coalition in the state election.
Kogarah MP Chris Minns along with frontbenchers Jodi McKay (Strathfield) and Kate Washington (Port Stephens) are all believed to be considering a tilt.
But NSW Labor sources told AAP that, by Wednesday evening, no one had yet stepped forward.
If more than two candidates come forward, a ballot will be held for both the rank-and-file members and the parliamentary party.
That process will take "a number of weeks" to give all members a chance to vote.
Liberal leader Gladys Berejiklian said it was "disgraceful" the process was only just starting.
"They are treating the people of NSW in such a disgraceful manner," the Premier told reporters in Sydney on Wednesday.
"They should have started this process the day after the state election, but instead they wanted to give a leg up to Bill Shorten and we saw how that ended."
She said a strong government needed a strong opposition but Labor was "more obsessed about its own internal power manoeuvrings rather than actually fighting for leadership that the people of NSW deserve."
Upper house MP Penny Sharpe has been acting interim leader after Michael Daley stood down from the top job following the brutal result at the March 23 state election.
Shadow treasurer Ryan Park has led the party in the lower house since state parliament returned in April.
NSW Labor held off selecting a new leader until after the federal election in order to prevent a potentially costly distraction to Bill Shorten's national campaign.
But Mr Shorten's defeat at the weekend has now triggered his own resignation from the party's federal leadership.
Mr Daley and Ms Sharpe won't contest the NSW party leadership.
Mr Minns unsuccessfully ran against Mr Daley in November 2018.
Asked for her thoughts on Ms McKay - who once shadowed Ms Berejiklian when she was transport minister - the premier said: "I'm not overly concerned by the prospect of that leadership."
The search for the new NSW leader will also run alongside the campaign to take the helm of the federal Labor party.
On Wednesday Anthony Albanese emerged as a seemingly inevitable winner after his only contender, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, fell into line behind him.
