Tag Archives: Branch stacking

Polls can be wrong, however, the Premier is still popular given the challenges his government has faced over the past 18 months.

An anti-corruption inquiry investigating branch stacking within Victorian Labor has concluded its public hearings, after the final witness pulled out for

The latest investigation may put some MPs off branch stacking, but it continues to flourish because it’s legal, and it works.

Former Victorian government minister Adem Somyurek will continue to give evidence in a corruption commission hearing today after he was accused of overseeing an industrial-scale branch stacking operation.

Adem Somyurek has told Victoria’s corruption watchdog Premier Daniel Andrews was involved in branch stacking operations in the late 1990s, and that he ignored warnings about the infamous red shirts rort in 2014.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' faction in the Labor Party "invented ethnic branch stacking" and he was a key organiser, according to former minister Adem Somyurek. Mr Somyurek appeared in the witness box for the first time since the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission inquiry into Labor Party branch-stacking began.

If there is any new information, no doubt that will be referred again to the finance department.” Mr Sukkar said he completely rejected the branch-stacking allegations, which were aired by 60 Minutes and The Age.

Federal assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar was intimately aware of a scheme placing factional operatives into taxpayer-funded electorate office jobs to carry out internal Liberal Party work. Leaked personal correspondence reveals Sukkar’s best friend,

The allegations against the federal MP are detailed in documents filed in the Federal Court as part of defamation proceedings brought by a former Liberal Party factional figure.

A group of 10 powerful unions and MP Marlene Kairouz have lost their legal challenges against the federal ALP's intervention in the Victorian branch after serious allegations emerged.