Anthony Albanese has asked for federal intervention in another safe Labor seat, leading to one party member to say the prime minister was “pissing people off”.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has asked Labor’s campaign chief to intervene in a factional fight for the prize NSW Labor seat of Barton, vacated by former Indigenous Minister Linda Burney.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has caused a stir within Labor by intervening in several preselections.The vacancy has triggered a battle to replace Burney, and NSW’s dominant Right faction is furious the prime minister is trying to force another candidate from the Left into the prime position. Albanese, fresh from interventions in Tasmania and Victoria to get candidates selected, wrote to Labor national secretary Paul Erickson on Tuesday to ask head office to step into the NSW preselection contest as well.The request from Albanese for the federal head office to take charge in NSW will trigger a meeting of a Labor national executive subcommittee, which will consider the prime minister’s request.
One member of the NSW Right, who asked not to be named so they could discuss the preselection, said the prime minister should “not be intervening in random seats”.“The more things spiral out of control, the more he zooms in on things he can control, like preselections,” they said, adding that Albanese’s involvement was “pissing people off”.
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