Richard Marles says asking questions about events prior to senator’s sudden death is legitimate
But the Victorian right winger said he had known Kitching for 30 years and the “whole Labor movement is in a state of grief and shock”.Marles told reporters in Hobart he did not accept “assertions that have been in the media” about the way Kitching had been treated, or what subsequent actions she or others might have taken.
Marles said he “profoundly” rejected that assertion. “I’d really think about the question that you’ve just asked,” he told the reporter.Since her sudden death of a heart attack last week, friends and allies of Kitching have argued she was effectively ostracised by Labor’s Senate leadership team of Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher, after a series of internal disagreements.
The power of Labor’s national executive to determine the fate of individual MPs and senators has caused anxiety in the state branch. He was asked if he knew why the ALP national executive had not endorsed Kitching’s preselection “given even the Dalai Lama has paid his respects to her?”Labor’s deputy leader said pre-selection processes remained under way for a number of positions “which includes the Victorian Senate, which is more than senator Kitching, in the sense that there are more people than just her on the ticket, and that is still a pre-selection to occur”.
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