Since Federation, Victorian Labor’s story has been characterised mostly by infighting, wasted opportunities and defeat. With its latest preselection deal, it appears to be surrendering to the darker impulses of its past, writes ShaunCarney1 SpringSt
And, with its latest sub-factional, winner-takes-all preselection deal rubber-stamped by the party’s national executive on Monday, it appears to be surrendering to the darker impulses of its past.Before the election of the Andrews government in 2014, the ALP had experienced only three periods of office in which it enjoyed the solid endorsement of the electorate.
That reputation is being squandered as the Andrews government fails to meet the challenge of overcoming its troubles with branch-stacking and potentially illegal misuse of public resources. What looked like an opportunity to clean up the party when then-minister Adem Somyurek’s extensivewas exposed to the public last year has turned into a festival of revenge, arrogance and weak leadership.
Most were connected to Somyurek. There is an argument that they could not stay on but the summary way in which they have been purged will only invite reprisals. Already there’s talk of the ex-ministers
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