Eric Dearricott


Victorian ALP facing fresh dissent on branch stacking

The Victorian Branch of the ALP’s branch-stacking inquiry has been branded a failure by a leading party member who helped set it up, because the same people who benefit from branch stacking wrote the report.

Race Mathews lets fly at “tragic” stacked ALP

Leading ALP elder statesman, Race Matthews, has increased pressure on Victorian Premier John Brumby to appoint a membership czar to clean out stacked branches.

Watching the ALP stacks come in: the membership rorts go on

Extensive and apparently systemic rorting of ALP membership rules in Victoria has continued despite the Brimbank scandal.