A chronological list of ALP stacks and reform media mentions, updated as we go. It’s very Victorian, with some NSW, but we will extend our scope. Some links are behind paywalls. Some stories are edited versions of original media articles or compilations of related stories. Mainly Murdoch media free.
View also some key Open Labor ideas, stories & link
We see a great deal of the Albanese government, but we don’t know much about what goes on behind the scenes – by Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, 12 Jul 2023
Labor minister attacks ‘rigid factional duopoly’ controlling the party – by James Massola, The Age, 19 Jul 2023
A More Competitive Labor Party – by Andrew Leigh Federal Member for Fenner, Per Capita, John Cain Lecture, 19 Jul 2023
Factions, power and Daniel Andrews: Victorian Labor prepares for its first state conference in more than three years – by Benita Kolovos, The Guardian, 16 Jun 2023
Democracy has withered on Andrews’ watch. I know because I watched it happen – by
Sumeyya Ilanbey, 2 Jun 2023
Andrews boosts internal grip on power, two ministers in firing line for demotion – by Paul Sakkal and Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 1 Dec 2022
Outgoing Labor MP accuses IBAC, ombudsman of ‘bullying and brutalising’ staff – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 20 Sep 2022
Can Labor drain its own swamp? Or does the rot run too deep? – by Chip Le Grand, The Age, 23 Jul 2022
Liberals accuse each other’s factions of ‘thuggish behaviour’ and being ‘a cancer that’s infected the party’ – by Sean Nicholls, Naomi Selvaratnam and Stephanie March, Four Corners, ABC News, 4 Jul 2022
Jacinta Allan tipped to be new deputy premier of Victoria after four senior ministers resign – by Benita Kolovos, The Guardian, 24 Jun 2022
Factional warfare threatens Labor MPs – by Paul Sakkal, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Josh Gordon, The Age, 7 Dec 2021
Premier remains strong despite quarantine, branch-stacking and other blunders – by Paul Strangio, The Age 27 Nov 2021
‘Impossible to win’: Liberal hopeful lashes out as real renewal is hard to find – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 7 Jan 2022
Labor preselections trample both the guilty and innocent – by Bill Kelty, Open Labor, 14 Dec 2021 reprinted with permission from The Age
Factional warfare creates a thorny problem for Andrews – by Josh Gordon, The Age, 10 Dec 2021
Ex-ministers Kairouz and Scott face scrutiny over grant funding – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 8 Dec 2021
Two reasons why progressives need to temper hopes of victory, if not shelve them – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 7 Dec 2021
Reclaim Our Party – requests to ALP National Executive – by Eric Dearricott & James Button, Open Labor, 6 Dec 2021
Reclaim our party – online forum – by Open Labor, 25 Nov 2021
Corruption and Patronage Are the Norm in the Australian Labor Party – by Harry Stratton, Jacobin Magazine, 22 Nov 2021
A unity ticket to challenge the integrity vacuum in Canberra – by Barry Jones, Pearls and Irritations, 25 Nov 2021
Former Liberal leader to join forces with Labor veteran in bid to target Morrison ahead of election – by Katherine Murphy, The Guardian, 19 Nov 2021
The educational divide that threatens to split the left – by James Button, The Age, 22 Nov 2022
Somyurek’s facade crumbles as probe scrutiny intensifies – by Sumeyya Ilanbey & Paul Sakkal, The Age, 12 Nov 2021
Adem Somyurek ‘living proof’ of the consequences of Labor’s ‘unethical culture’, Ibac commissioner says – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 11 Nov 2021
Branch stacking is a bargain – why wouldn’t it go on? – by Alan Kohler, The New Daily, 11 Nov 2021
‘I’ll do whatever’: ‘Naive’ electorate staffer admits to Liberal factional work – by Nick McKenzie & Joel Tozer, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Nov 2021
“It’s wrong’: Adem Somyurek tells Ibac he ‘lost all perspective’ in factional battle – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 9 Nov 2021
‘Lost all perspective’: Somyurek concedes he should be condemned – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 9 Nov 2021
‘I’ve no idea what you’re saying’: Somyurek’s tortured day at IBAC – by Noel Toweell, The Age, 9 Nov 2021
Victorian MP employed ‘factional operatives’ for taxpayer-funded political work, Ibac hears – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 8 Nov 2021
Former Victorian Labor minister Adem Somyurek tells IBAC the Premier ignored red-shirts rort warning – by Bridget Rollason, ABC News, 8 Nov 2021
As It happened – Kairouz evidence held behind closed doors after concerns for welfare – by Tammy Mills and Sumeyya Ilanbey The Age, 3 Nov 2021
Victorian MP’s husband paid taxpayer-funded salary for factional work, Ibac hears – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 1 Nov 2021
Branch stacking the party – by Rosie Elliott, Open Labor, 1 Nov 2021
Labor’s Tasmania split bedevils Albanese’s poll hope – by Martyn Goddard, Pearls & Irritations, 29 Oct 2021
Accountability is under threat. Parliament must urgently reset the balance – by Anne Tiernan, The Conversation, 28 Oct 2021
Guys, dolls, mods: catching up on the branch stack inquiry – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 21 Oct 2021
Operation Watts IBAC enquiry into branch stacking practices – by Open Labor, 19 Oct 2021
‘Mention Black Lives Matter’: factional leaders accuse journalists of racism to prevent media exposure – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
As it happened: community organisation allegedly pocketed $100,000 in grants – by Tammy Mills & Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
Albanese asks finance department whether Byrne breached official rules over staff – by Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, 19 Oct 2021
As it happened:Senior Labor MP ‘paid for party memberships’, IBAC inquiry told – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
In pursuit of power: Tearful Banyule council mayor finishes evidence – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
Labor dissidents mull appeal after court supports branch takeover – Paul Sakkal, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
Supreme Court dismisses challenges by unions, MP, in the wake of ALP branch stacking scandal – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 19 Oct 2021
Senior Labor MP ‘paid for party memberships’, IBAC inquiry told – Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 18 Oct 2021
As it happened: Banyule Mayor Rick Garotti claims senior Labor MP involved in branch stacking – by Mathew Dunckley & Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 18 Oct 2021
‘Rerouting’ stamps and phantom staff: Victorian Labor’s excruciating week at Ibac – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 16 Oct 2021
Aide tells of Somyurek ‘megalomania’, office ‘dysfunction’ – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 Oct 2021
Could, and should, the Premier be called by IBAC? – by Paul Sakkal, The Age, 12 Oct 2021
Operation Watts public hearings opening address – by IBAC Counsel Assisting Chris Carr SC, 11 October 2021
Labor dissidents mull appeal after court supports branch takeover – by Paul Sakkal, The Age, 19 Oct, 2021
We should not be token’: Labor MP says party must lift its multicultural credentials – by Rob Harris, The Age, 13 Sept 2021
Keneally vows to ‘step up and fight’ as Labor brawls over lower house move – by Rob Harris, The Age, 10 Sept 2021
Adem Somyurek’s legend wilts under the anti-corruption spotlight – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 16 Oct 2021
Anthony Albanese needs to walk the walk on integrity after Anthony Byrne’s revelations at IBAC – by Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, re-posted ABC News 15 Oct. 2021
Demands for Premier to face IBAC grilling don’t stack up – by Nick McKenzie, The Age, 13 Oct 2021
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews denies wrongdoing as IBAC investigates branch stacking in Labor Party – by Richard Willmingham & Bridget Rollason, ABC News, 12 Oct 2021
Ibac: Luke Donnellan quits Victorian cabinet after allegedly paying others’ membership fees – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 11 Oct 2021
Victorian Labor minister Luke Donnellan quits over IBAC allegations of branch stacking – by Bridget Rollason, ABC News. 11 Oct 2021
Victoria Labor corruption inquiry: what the Ibac hearings will mean for Daniel Andrews’ government – by Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 10 Oct 2021
Daniel Andrews has weathered COVID storms so far, but the test of IBAC lies ahead – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 8 Oct 2021
The real scandal in the Pandora Papers – by Alan Kohler, New Daily, 7 Oct 2021
It’s not tokenism. Diverse political parties make better decisions – by Osmond Chiu, Canberra TImes, 6 Oct 2021
Pandora Papers reveal big foreign money secretly behind some prime Australian real estate – ABC News, 5 Oct 2021
Think tanks have put British democracy at risk. We have the same problem – Lucy Hamilton, Pearls & Irritations, 7 Sept 2021
Left’s identity politics crisis a progressive problem – by Emma Dawson, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 Sep 2021
The democratic crisis: Whatever happened to courage, principle, commitment, accountability? – by Barry Jones, edited reprint from Pearls & Irritations, 12 Sept 2021 of speech to the inaugural Jean McLean Oration delivered at Victoria University 15 Sept 2021,
Our democracy is decaying from within – by John Menadue, Pearls & Irritations, 16 Sep 2021
Keneally’s Fowler move exposes the nonsense world of Labor insiders – Kishor Napier-Raman, Crikey Sep 15, 2021
Kristina Keneally confirms lower house move, as factional feud trumps diversity – by Kishor Napier-Raman, Crikey, 10 Sep 2021
Health Services Union splits from the right faction of the Labor Party in protest over Kristina Keneally – by Jennifer Bechwati, 7 News, 11 Seo 2021
Non-aligned Victorian Labor politicians 1970 to 2018 – the poster – by Janet McCalman & friends, Open Labor, Sept 2021
Macklin-Bracks: preselection reform discussion – the Victorian intervention is not over – by James Button, Open Labor, 26 July 2021
The preselection battle for Hawke – Open Labor, May 2021
Labor should focus on the pandemic recovery, not party infighting – Editorial, The Age, 6 May 2021
The Dirty Country – corruption – a series of articles on corruption by Crikey, Mar 2021
Easy lies and influence: the familiar face of corruption in Australia – by Fiona McLeod in Pearls and Irritations, 23 Aug 2021
Unions and the ALP – time to stay friends but end the marriage? – by Max Ogden, Open Labor, Aug 2021
ALP National Executive & non-aligned reps talk preselections – by James Button, Open Labor, Aug 2021
Stop the shadowy preselections: 150 people call for change – by James Button, Open Labor, 21 Aug 2021
How many members preselection ballots there been since 1993 for VIC ALP? Open Labor, Aug 2021
The Labor hunting season turns nastier – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 1 July 2021
Labor in a quandary over party boss’ return from maternity leave – by Paul Sakkai, The Age, 30 June 2021
Public anti-corruption hearings mooted in Adem Somyurek branch stacking scandal – by Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer & Sumeyya Illanbey, The Age, 15 June 2021
Former party boss wins Labor preselection for new seat of Hawke – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 15 June, 2021
Labor preselections can proceed after judge lifts injunction – by Simone Fox Koob & Adam Cooper, The Age, 9 June 2021
Why I cannot support Michael Daley for the Labor leadership in NSW – by Osmond Chiu, SMH 31 May 2021
Kneejerk change of leadership may not be the answer for shellshocked NSW Labor – by Anne Davies, The Guardian 24 May 2021
Stability Pact talks threaten to erupt between Victorian Labor – by Rob Harris, The Age, 21 May 2021
Game of Drones: Labor’s factional saga marches on and on. Let’s count the ways – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 7 May 2021
Albanese rebuffed: Supreme Court judge blocks Labor preselections amid infighting – by Michael Fowler and Paul Sakkal, The Age, 7 May 2021
Powerful unions mount legal challenge to federal Labor’s takeover of Victorian party – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 6 May 2021
Albanese demands party fast-tracks preselection – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age 3 May 2021
Vic unions prepare court case over Labor preselections – by Aaron Patrick & Phillip Coorey, Australian Financial Review, 30 April 2021
The ALP left faction props up the right – by Harry Stratton Jacobin, 4 April 2021
Fight for prized new Labor seat as factions eye peace deal – Paul Sakkal, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 Mar 2021
Fight for prized new Labor seat as factions eye peace deal – by Paul Sakkal, 18 Mar 2021
Labor MP Marlene Kairouz suing ALP over branch-stacking allegations – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 9 Feb 2021
Banyule Mayor quits Labor Party ahead of branch stacking tribunal hearing – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 8 Feb 2021
Macklin-Bracks: reforms to Victorian Labor explained – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, 2 Feb 2021
Macklin-Bracks: hand over administration of VIC ALP to Interim Governance Committee – 2 Feb 2021
Macklin-Bracks: reforms to Victorian Labor explained – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, 2 Feb 2021
Corrupt, right-wing machine politics are crippling the Australian Labor Party – by Harry Stratton, Jacobin, 24 Jan 2021
Macklin-Bracks: members shut out of reform process 107 sign Open Labor letter to ALP – Open Labor, 7 Dec 2020
Macklin-Bracks: reform recommendations & the Victorian ALP – first response – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, 29 Nov 2020
ALP branch stacking review slams ‘practically non-existent’ governance in Victorian party – by Rob Harris, The Age 24 Nov 2020
Restore Party Democracy – Online Branch Meetings (NSW branch) – by Richard Walsham, Unprecedented Times, 16 Oct 2020
The ALP must repair trust between leadership & members – by James Button, Open Labor, 13 Oct 2020
A review of all the ALP reviews – 50 years of soul searching – by David Barda, Open Labor, Oct 2020
Organised factions must be outlawed – by Dennis Glover, Open Labor, Oct 2020
Macklin-Bracks: weeding the stacks was never going to be easy – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, 23 Oct 2020
Somyurek goes ‘dark’ as membership of his Labor branches crashes – by Paul Sakkal and Nick McKenzie, The Age, 8 Oct 2020
Labor branch stacking: Victoria administrators recommend ban on cash payments for memberships – Kathryn Murphy, The Guardian, Sept 2020
Why hard times for our party might give us hope – by James Button, Open Labor, Sept 2020
ALP members push reforms – by Noel Turnbull, Pearls & Irritations, 24 Sept 2020
Benalla branch reform submission to VIC ALP review – Open Labor, Sept 2020
Overcoming perverse incentives for branch stacking – by Julia Thornton, Open Labor, Sept 2020
War Without, Rot Within: The Collapse of Australian Party Politics – Guy Rundle, Arena Quarterly no. 3, Sept 2020
Branch stacking isn’t just about corruption — it’s a symptom of an outdated, withering party system – by Marija Taflaga, The Conversation, 26 Aug 2020
A guide to the branch stackers business model and how to stop it – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, Aug 2020
Leaders must respond to ‘cancerous’ branch stacking – by John Hewson, The Age, 25 Aug 2020
‘That’s politics’: Inside the Liberal Party’s branch-stacking machine – by Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer and Paul Sakkal, The Age, 23 Aug 2020
Locking out the Left: the emergence of national factions in Labor – by Osmond Chiu, Jacobin Magazine, 27 July 2020
For an open democratic party, not a secret society without soul – Andrew Giles & Suzie Byers, Challenge Magazine, 31 July 2020
The rot in Labor’s student world – by Jasmine Duff, Red Flag, 12 Jul 2020
Somyurek just opened the door to Labor Party reform? – David Feeney & Eric Locke, Socially Democratic, 26 June 2020 podcast
How did Somyurek get so much power? Because the ALP let him – by Shaun Carney, The Age, 21 June 2020
Labor’s branch-stacking scandal – an opportunity for reinvention – by James Button, The Guardian, 21 June 2020
The Rise and Rise and Fall of Adem Somyurek – by Guy Rundle, Jacobin Magazine, 20 Jun 2020
Power vacuum: Can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess? – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 June 2020
Grattan on Friday: Labor Party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese – by Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, 18 June 2020
Remembering the red shirts scandal — and how nothing much changed because of it – by Kishor Napier-Raman, Crikey, 17 June 2020
Labor’s branch-stacking scandal is a problem for the whole party, not just Victoria – by Geoffrey Robinson, The Conversation, 17 June 2020
Somyurek scandal provides a chance to clean up the ALP – by Race Mathews, The Age, 18 June 2020
Inside Labor’s Civil War – by Patrick Durkin and David Marin-Guzman, Financial Review, 18 June 2020
Graphic texts from federal MP Anthony Byrne leaked amid fallout from Adem Somyurek saga – by Stephen Dziedzic, ABC News, 18 June 2020
IBAC launches investigation into Labor branch-stacking scandal – by Noel Towell, The Age, 17 June 2020
‘Crooked, corrupt’: Explosive private text messages leaked as Labor scandal escalates – by Rob Harris, The Age 17 June 2020
Federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne cooperating with authorities on Somyurek investigation – by Matthew Doran, ABC News, 17 June 2020
Labor Party’s national executive pledges to clean up troubled Victoria branch – Dan Conifer, ABC News, 17 June 2020
Takeover should help stabilise Albanese – Phillip Coorey, Financial Review, 17 June, 2020
Labor Party review will return power to ‘true believers’: Andrews – by Michael Fowler, The Age, 17 June 2020
Victorian Labor has a ‘significant problem’, Premier Daniel Andrews says following branch-stacking scandal ABC News ,17 June 2020
Daniel Andrews asked federal Labor to take over Victorian preselections – by Rob Harris 16 June 2020
Federal ALP makes extraordinary intervention into Victorian branch-stacking scandal – by Katherine Murphy, The Guardian, 16 June 2020
VIDEO: Geoffrey Watson says branch-stacking not limited to Labor Party – ABC News, 16 Jun 2020
Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP – Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, 16 June 2020
Labor in turmoil as it plans a branch-stacking allegation response – by Jane Norman & Stephen Dziedzic, The Age 16 June 2020
Federal Labor intervenes in Victorian branch amid branch-stacking allegations levelled at Adem Somyurek – Jane Norman & Dan Conifer, The Age, 16 June 2020
What is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out? – by Anika Gauja, The Comversation, 15 June 2020
Adem Somyurek quits Victorian Labor Party after 60 Minutes airs allegations of branch stacking, offensive language – ABC News, 15 June 2020
Fallen minister Robin Scott signed off on grants to factional allies – by Sarah Danckert and Nick McKenzie, The Age, 17 June 2020
Scott resigns as Minister over Somyurek Affair – by Nick McKenzie, The Age, 15 June 2020
F**k the premier’: Labor’s secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon – by Nick McKenzie, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Joel Tozer, The Age, 15 June 2020
Sixty Minutes on branch stacking: The Faceless Man (in 4 parts You Tube) – by Nick McKenzie 15 June 2020
What should Australia do about its politics being too white? – Osmond Chiu, Pearls and Irritations, 27 Feb 2020
Labor factional figure punched as 100 people storm western suburbs branch meeting – by Rob Harris, The Age, 27 Jan 2020
Lavarch Review Submission – by Jamie Clements Oct 2019 (uploaded on SCRIBED uploaded Dec 2020)
Review into the NSW Labor Head Office – by Michael Lavarch & Steven Mills, ICAC exhibit, 4 Dec 2019 PDF link
‘One last chance’: Labor elders say party review cannot be ignored – by Alexandra Smith, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Dec 2019
Donations scandal: NSW Labor changes rules so general secretary can be sacked – by Paul Karp, The Guardian, 6 Dec 2019
Labor’s future lies in acknowledging the complexity of working-class people – by Nick Dyrenfurth, The Guardian, 22 Nov 2019
Submission to the Lavarch Review into the Governance and Culture of the NSW Branch of the Australian Labor Party – by Penny Sharp MLC, 22 Oct 2019
Lavarch review: It’s time to fix NSW Labor – by Chris Haviland, Independent Australia, 14 Nov 2019
Labor review finds ‘unpopular’ Shorten hurt party’s election bid, tax policies didn’t – by Rob Harris, The Age, 7 Nov, 2019
Michael Lavarch to review NSW Labor after ‘shocking’ allegations at ICAC – by Paul Karp, The Guardian, 13 Oct 2019
Catholic college stacking ‘scheme’ angers NSW MPs – Tom Rabe, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 Oct 2019
How the Libs stole Labor’s light on the hill – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 2 Oct 2019
Victorian Labor MPs exonerated in ‘red shirts’ election rorts scheme – by AAP, 14 Feb 2019
Manifesto reveals alt-right’s plans to go mainstream after ‘infiltration’ of NSW Young Nationals – by Alex Mann, ABC Background Briefing, 13 Oct 2018
Jane’s back in the game, but Labor has played itself – by Guy Rundle, Crikey, 26 July 2018
Misuse of Parliamentary staff budget entitlements in 2014 – by Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass, 21 Mar 2018
Why ALP backbencher Kimberley Kitching may become a household name – by Mathew Knott, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Mar 2018
Stacking votes using a small community – some Stability Pact stories – some stories by Nino Bucci & Richard Willingham 2018 & by Ben Chifley 2016
Bill Shorten asks ALP’s national executive to decide Victorian preselections as tensions rise – by Richard Willingham & Nino Bucci, ABC News, 18 July 2018
CFMEU calls on Daniel Andrews to step in over ‘misogynistic’ treatment of Labor MP Jane Garrett – by Richard Willingham, ABC News, 17 July 2018
Manifesto reveals alt-right’s plans to go mainstream after ‘infiltration’ of NSW Young Nationals – by Alex Mann, ABC News, 14 Oct 2018
How Democracy Ends – by David Runciman, published by Profile, 2018, reviewed by Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian, 20 May 2018
Why ALP backbencher Kimberley Kitching may become a household name – by Matthew Knott, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2018
Labor brawl in Victoria matters – it’s a threat to Bill Shorten’s leadership – by Katherine Murphy, The Guardian, 21 Dec 2017
Bill Shorten’s power base in turmoil after factional fight in Victorian ALP – by Katherine Murphy, The Guardian, 20 Dec 2017
Somyurek’s revenge a step closer as Labor right allies target three safe seats – by By Noel Towell, Benjamin Preiss and Adam Carey, The Age, 6 Oct 2017
Andrews could be dealt a fatal blow by ‘coalition of the discontented – by Noel Towell, The Age, 28 Sept 2017
Icac finds that Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi and Tony Kelly engaged in corrupt conduct – by Ben Doherty and Australian Associated Press, The Guardian, 3 Aug 2017
A pox on both your houses – Andrew Charlton & Lachlan Harris, The Monthly, Dec 2016 – Jan 2017
How Victoria’s rotten Stability Pact keeps Labor undemocratic – by Steve Gibbons, Crikey 24 Oct 2016
Stability? Shorten throws an uneasy Labor pact into chaos – by Ben Chiefly, Crikey, 21 Oct 2016
What will Conroy’s departure mean for Shorten’s leadership? – by Ben Chifley, Crikey, Sept 2016
The spectacular fall of Jane Garrett, Daniel Andrews’ main rival – by Ben Chifley, Crikey 1 Sept 2016
Labor branch stacking becomes an arms race, with Stability Pact a possible casualty of war – by Ben Chifley, Crikey, 23 Aug 2016
NSW Liberals’ factional battles stand in way of reform, but changes in participation demand it – by Marija Taflaga, The Conversation, 15 Aug 2016
Bill Shorten ally Plumbers Union boss Earl Setches in Labor numbers rort – by Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 Mar 2016
Wills preselection: Labor’s factional, union heavyweights likely to decide outcome of Victorian seat – by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News, 1 Feb 2016
Wills preselection: Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks backs Josh Funder – by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News, 29 Jan 2016
Victorian Supreme Court rules activist Eric Dearricott may keep ALP membership records – by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News, 15 Dec 2015
Labor loses legal bid to silence whistleblower – by Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, SMH, 11 Dec 2015
Democracy is due for an overhaul – could lawmaking-by-jury be the answer? By Janosch Prinz, The Conversation, December 17, 2015
Victorian Labor takes legal action against member who says he has records proving branch stacking – by Dan Oates & Sam Clark, ABC News, 10 Dec 2015
Shorten allies used disgraced HSU for branch stacking scam – Ben Schneiders & Royce Millas, The Age, 28 Nov 2015
ALP whistleblower could face legal action – SBS News, 28 Nov 2015
Conroy accuses Labor foe of racial profiling as branch stacking scandal heats up – by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News 27 Nov 2015
Vic Labor dumps 180 for branch-stacking – SBS News 27 Nov 2015
Branch stacking inquiry: Hundreds of Victorian Labor members to have their cards torn up over irregularities
– by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News, 26 Nov 2015
Victorian ALP sets lawyers on whistleblower Eric Dearricott – The Australian, 25 Nov 2015
A cancerous corruption is eating the ALP – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, 7 Nov 2015
Labor launches inquiry into mega branch stacking scam – by Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, The Age, 30 Oct 2015
Victorian Labor suspends internal elections over membership payment ‘irregularities’, launches investigation – by Sam Clark, ABC News, 30 Oct 2015
Labor Party staffer Haykel Handal expelled over branch stacking in federal seats – by Dan Oakes & Sam Clark, ABC News, 6 Aug 2015
Race Mathews. The ALP’s not so secret ballots – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, 5 Aug 2015
Let us now begin, Victorian intervention 1970 – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, July 2015
ALP councillor Michael Teti linked to Mafia boss used senator’s office for branch stacking, documents show – by Sam Clark ABC News, 13 July 2015,
How has ALP factional influence changed since the 1980s? – by Osmond Chiu, Agitate, Educate, Opine, 22 June 2015
Branch stacking: dozens of ALP memberships void – by Richard Willingham, The Age, 8 May 2015
Tom Uren celebrated as Labor’s left faction marks 60 years – by Sean Nicholls, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Nov 2014
Public Pessimism, Political Complacency: Restoring Trust, Reforming Labor – John Faulkner Speech, inaugural address of The Light on the Hill Society, 7 Oct 2014
MP Cesar Melhem put slush fund money towards winning Labor faction fights – by Royce Millar & Ben Schneiders, The Age, 1 Oct 2014
What is the factional breakdown at Labor Conferences? – by Osmond Chiu, Agitate, Educate.Opine, 2 Sept 2014
Towards A Modern Labor Party: Bill Shorten On Party Reform – by Bill Shorten, Per Capita 22 Apr 2014
Labor Party needs new ideas, more than double the members, Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten says – Jane Norman, ABC News, 6 Apr 2014
Race Mathews. Victorian Labor’s new crisis – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, 10 Mar 2014
Labor electoral hopefuls angry over plan to fast-track state preselections – by Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders, The Age, 28 Nov 2013
Replacing Crean: a guide to the ALP’s Hotham preselection – by Andrew Crook, Crikey, 19 July 2013
Integrity in Politics, the Power of Ideas – Lindsay Tanner, delivered at the Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture, May 2012
Reith Review of Liberal Party Election Campaign Released – by AustralianPolitics.com, 18 July 2011
Why bother to be an ALP member? – by Richard Farmer Crikey, 3 Feb 2011
Stacked ALP branch shrinks – by David Rood, The Age, 10 Oct 2010
The Age’s leaked ALP emails don’t stack up – Andrew Crook, Crikey, May 25 2010
Branch stacking lessons learned from history – by Josephine Cafagna, ABC The Drum, 24 May 2010
ALP branch-stacking allegations the tip of an iceberg – by Andrew Crook, Crikey, 18 May 2010
Victorian ALP facing fresh dissent on branch stacking – by Andrew Crook, Crikey 16 Nov 2009
Nasty saga you nearly missed – by Paul Sheehan, the Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Oct 2009
Race Mathews lets fly at “tragic” stacked ALP – by Andrew Crook, Crikey, 25 Aug 2009
Pre-conference pandemonium in Brumby’s ALP – by Andrew Crook, Crikey 12 June 2009
Hakki Suleyman snuggles up at ALP Head Office – by Andrew Crook, Crikey, 4 June 2009
Leaked ALP document: No wonder there are Brimbanks – ABC Local Radio, 3 June, 2009
‘Stacked’ ALP branch shrinks – by David Rood, The Age, 10 June 20210
Watching the ALP stacks come in: the membership rorts go on – by Andrew Crook Crikey, 3 June 2009
Labor push to end factional feuding – The Australian, 18 Mar 2009
MP ‘used ethnic groups to stack branches’ – by David Rood, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 2008
Karl Marx and the branch stackers – by Brian Costar, Inside Story, 14 May 2009
Investigation into the alleged improper conduct of councillors at Brimbank City Council (PDF), by G Brouwer, Ombudsman Victoria, 7 May 2009
Labor lefts past and present – by Geoffrey Robinson, ABC News, 7 Jan 2008
Man behind Labor’s vote-buying scam – by Michael Bachelard, The Age 13 May 2006
Labor charges MP in factional war – The Age June 19, 2005
Prove it! Premier to ALP critics –The Age, 6 Apr 2005
Labor’s stacking crisis worsens – The Age, 15 Mar 2005
ALP branch-stacking allegations the tip of an iceberg – by Kerri Ritchie, ABC radio AM, 19 Mar 2005
Faction deal got Bracks his seat – by The Age, 13 Mar 2005
Labor split over action on stackers – The Age, March 12, 2005
Call for audit to resolve ALP branch stacking brawl – by Kerri Ritchie, ABC Radio AM, 19 Mar 2005
Perhaps our very system of democracy is broke – by Denis Tracey, The Age, 15 Dec 2004
Report slams branch stacking in Victorian Labor – by Rafael Epstein, ABC AM, 9 Dec 2004
Inside the machine: Labor in New South Wales – by Frank Bonggiorno, University of New England, 5 Apr 2002
Labor supremos back new alliance – The Age, 18 June 2002
ALP modernisation, ethnic branch stacking, factionalism and the law – by Lyle Allan, People and Place, Vol 10, No. 4, 2002
Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party – by Andrew Leigh, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 35, No. 3, pp 427-448, 2000
The big branch stack: recruitment strategies and the influence of ethnic groups and factions in the Victorian ALP – by Lyle Allan, Conference: Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Oct 2000
Nothing new, but surely it’s time to stop – by Pete Steedman, The Age, 27 July 1994
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1950s to 2000
Download bibliography only PDF from Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party – by Andrew Leigh 2000 for extensive literatute review from 1950s to 2000