An internal fight over a safe Labor seat in Melbourne has spilled into public view as union-backed candidates go head-to-head.
A Labor candidate backed by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles could miss out on preselection for Gorton as a split in the Victorian Right faction turns into a fight to handpick the candidate for one of the safest Labor seats.
One of the sources linked to the SDA confirmed the union leadership wanted stability and that “we don’t want the TWU to get too greedy, we want unity, and we don’t want to do over the AWU”. A source in the AWU argued that Rasic had lived in the north-western suburban seat since she moved to Australia from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, whereas Jordan-Baird was from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.
“The AWU are telling people they have seven out of 10 votes, but are they really saying that if the PM or DPM expressed a view or made a call on who the candidate should be, that won’t happen? People still think Alice will get it,” they said.
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