With the federal ALP preselection season about to begin, we thought it time to shine a light into the murky tributaries for funnelling candidates into the highest office in the land.
Factions
Labor conference in danger of being boring
At Labor’s national conference later this week, for the first time in recent history, the party’s industrial wing will vote as a bloc instead of dividing along factional lines — and it could make for a seriously snoozy symposium, warns Malcolm Farr.
Taxpayer-funded ALP flying squad does Brumby’s dirty work
Victorian ALP hard men continue to wage factional warfare, recruit members and compile dirt on the opposition, writes Andrew Crook.
ALP National Executive to launch secret review of QLD campaign
The ALP National Executive has launched a secret review of the party’s Queensland election campaign, amid claims of systemic failures.
It takes two to make a factional conflict
There’s nothing like an election defeat to bring party disunity into the open. Hence Stateline in Victoria led on Friday night with a trenchant attack by Senator Judith Troeth on her opponents in the state’s Liberal Party, the controlling Kroger-Costello group, writes Charles Richardson.
