Open Labor thinks about reform & growing a strong, open and democratic Australian Labor Party (ALP). Link here to some key Open Labor ideas, themes and stories.
Read a far more extensive and evolving list of ALP stacks and reform media mention 2002 on, Open Labor
The ALP must repair trust between leadership & members – by James Button, Open Labor, Oct 2020
We want a well-run party that values its members – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, Sep 2020
A review of all the ALP reform reviews – 50 years of soul searching – by David Barda, Open Labor, Oct 2020
Non-aligned Victorian Labor politicians 1970 to 2018 – by Janet McCalman & friends, Open Labor, Sept 2021
Labor has a significant problem, Premier Daniel Andrews says following branch-stacking scandal – ABC News, 17 Jun 2020
12 steps to Labor reform – a petition from Open Labor & the Independents – Open Labor, Sept 2020
Branch stacking the Party – by Rosie Elliott, Open Labor, 4 Nov 2021
IBAC enquiry into branch stacking practices – Open Labor, Oct-Nov 2021
Organised factions must be outlawed – by Dennis Glover, Open Labor, Oct 202
A guide to the branch stackers business model and how to stop it – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, Aug 2020
ALP power vacuum – can the Labor Party really clean up its factional mess? – by Sumeyya Ilanbey, The Age, 19 June 2020.
Macklin-Bracks: hand over administration of VIC ALP to Interim Governance Committee – by Open Labor, 2 Feb 2021
Macklin-Bracks: reforms to Victorian Labor explained – by Eric Dearricott, Open Labor, 2 Feb 2021
Can we be Labor and undemocratic at the same time? – by Janet McCalman, Open Labor, Aug 2021
Open Labor focus on the secret ballot – by Open Labor, Sept 2020
Unions and the ALP – time to stay friends but end the marriage? – by Max Ogden, Open Labor, Aug 2021
The democratic crisis: Whatever happened to courage, principle, commitment, accountability? – by Barry Jones, Jean McLean Oration 15 Sept 2021
Culture wars threaten the left? – by James Button, edited from the Age, 22 Nov 2021
Labor People of Colour write to Open Labor – by Kasuni Mendis, Open Labor, Sept 2020
Locking out the Left: the emergence of national factions in Labor – edited from an article by Osmond Chiu, Jacobin Magazine, 27 July 2020
Easy lies & influence – the face of corruption in Australia – by Fiona McLeod, Pearls & Irritations, 23 Aug 2021
Labor democracy: why ALP reform matters – by Mark Butler, 22 Jan 2018
Public Pessimism, Political Complacency: Restoring Trust, Reforming Labor – John Faulkner Speech, inaugural address of The Light on the Hill Society, 7 Oct 2014