Victorian Liberal Party Minister Kevin Andrews comes under pressure to quit over branch stacking allegations”. It’s another branch stacking scandal shows the practice is not just about numbers. In both parties, it is about furthering conservative agendas – branch stacking drags policy right.
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Geoffrey Watson says branch-stacking not limited to Labor Party – Geoffrey Watson SC – VIDEO, 6 Jun 2020 ABC News Former ICAC counsel-assisting Geoffrey Watson says branch-stacking is as old as politics itself, and is not limited to either Victoria or the Labor Party.
Wikipedia (Aug 2021) notes that allegations of branch-stacking relating to the federal seat of Division of Wentworth within the Liberal Party‘s New South Wales division were published in 2006 by John Hyde Page, who both detailed his own role in the process and made allegations about numerous Liberal members and figures. Some of those named took successful legal actions for defamation and the book was subsequently pulled from the shelves.[12] In 2006, Michael Towke was accused of branch stacking, falsely as it turned out. He was replaced as Liberal Party candidate by Scott Morrison, who become Australian Prime Minister 2018.[13]
Stacking within the National Party is also well documented eg Manifesto reveals alt-right’s plans to go mainstream after ‘infiltration’ of NSW Young Nationals – by Alex Mann, ABC News, 13 Oct 2018
Related reading
Overcoming perverse incentives for branch stacking – by Julia Thornton, Open Labor, Sept 2020
The ALP must repair trust between leadership & members – by James Button, Open Labor, Oct 2020
Labor’s secret tapes reveal industrial scale stackathon – by Nick McKenizie, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Joel Tozer, The Age, 15 June 202
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