Michelle Grattan reports on the first hours of the dreadful public expose of Victorian ALP branch stacking. [Read article via external link] https://theconversation.com/steve-bracks-and-jenny-macklin-installed-to-run-crisis-ridden-victorian-alp-140858 … [Read more...] about Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP – Michelle Grattan, The Conversation, 16 June 2020
Key themes of Party reform from feedback to VIC ALP Administrators – June 2020
The Administrators have written wrote to all Victorian Party members to provide an opportunity to put their initial views based on the following four key questions: 1. as a matter of principle, what should be the reform priority for the Administrators? 2. what are the critical rule changes … [Read more...] about Key themes of Party reform from feedback to VIC ALP Administrators – June 2020
Labor Party review will return power to ‘true believers’: Andrews – by Michael Fowler, The Age, 17 June 2020
Michael Fowler writes that Premier Daniel Andrews says his order for a full review of the Victorian Labor Party in light of revelations over branch stacking will return the party to the "true believers". [Read article - external … [Read more...] about Labor Party review will return power to ‘true believers’: Andrews – by Michael Fowler, The Age, 17 June 2020
Adem Somyurek quits Victorian Labor Party after 60 Minutes airs allegations of branch stacking, offensive language, ABC News, 15 June 2020
State political reporters Richard Willingham and Joseph Dunstan chronicle ALP leadership's in immediate day after branch stacking allegations [External link] … [Read more...] about Adem Somyurek quits Victorian Labor Party after 60 Minutes airs allegations of branch stacking, offensive language, ABC News, 15 June 2020
A cancerous corruption is eating the ALP – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, 7 Nov 2015
Race Mathews, ALP life member and a former chief of staff to Gough Whitlam, Federal MP and Victorian State MP and Minister, congratulates ALP Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten on telling the Victorian ALP to investigate and eliminate its membership rorts. "There may never be a better … [Read more...] about 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 and Royce Millar, The Age, 30 Oct 2015
Schneiders and Millar report in 2015 on Labor suspending its internal elections and launching an investigation into one of the biggest-ever branch-stacking scams to hit the Victorian Labor Party after Fairfax Media reported that anonymous gift cards were used to pay the dues of hundreds of ALP … [Read more...] about Labor launches inquiry into mega-branch-stacking scam – by Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar, The Age, 30 Oct 2015
Let us now begin – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, July 2015
Race Mathews wrote before the 1915 Federal Conference: "The philosopher George Santayana wrote famously ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [External link] Read more ‘Let us now begin’ Race Mathews: former Principal Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam, local … [Read more...] about Let us now begin – by Race Mathews, Pearls & Irritations, July 2015