State political reporters Richard Willingham and Joseph Dunstan chronicle ALP leadership’s response the day after seeing recordings from 60 Minutes and reporting from The Age on branch stacking & offensive language allegations.
Related reading & viewing
Adem Somyurek’s legend wilts under the anti-corruption spotlight– by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 16 Oct 2021
Adem Somyurek’s legend wilts under the anti-corruption spotlight – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 16 Oct 2021
Industrial scale branch stacking – Fed Exec. intervenes into VIC ALP 2020 – by Open Labor June 2020
Adem Somyurek quits Victorian Labor Party after 60 Minutes airs allegations of branch stacking, offensive language – [External link] – note that Premier Dan Andrews says Somyurek was sacked from the ALP, did not resign. Other sources say he quit on Monday before being sacked. Either way, he left.
Secret tapes, carpark cash drops, ministers threatened: inside Victoria’s stackathon – by Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer & Sumeyya Illanbey The Age 14 June 2020
The Faceless Man (Sixty Minutes view in four parts on You Tube: – part 1 of 4, Nick McKenzie, 15 June 2020
F**k the Premiers: Labor’s secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon – by Nick McKenizie, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Joel Tozer, The Age, 15 June 2020
Power vacuum: Can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess? – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age 19 June 2020
Secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon – by Nick McKenzie, Sumeyya Ilanbey & Joel Tozer, The Age, 15 June 2020
Branch stacking rife across all political parties – by Peter Wicks, Independent Australia 26 June 2020
The rise and rise and fall of Adem Somyurek – by Guy Rundle, Jacobin, 20 June 2020 rise
How did Somyurek get so much power? Because the ALP let him – by Sean Carney, The Age, 21 June 2020
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