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ALP supporters cheer after the ABC projected a Labor election win on November 26.

Victorian Labor members get a vote again as party emerges from administration

The voting rights of Labor members have been suspended since June 2020 when an “industrial-scale” branch-stacking scandal meant the party’s national executive took over.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews speaks to the media at Parliament House about the joint IBAC, Victorian Ombudsman report into branch stacking.

‘Absolutely disgraceful behaviour’: Victorian Labor’s rotten culture exposed

A new parliamentary watchdog will be launched in response to a report that revealed rampant nepotism inside the ALP and prompted an apology from the premier.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Reducing political corruption will only happen with cultural change

The fact such vast powers were needed to expose wrongdoing shows how hard it was to substantiate what was an open secret within Victorian Labor.

  • Nick McKenzie
Daniel Andrews was grilled by the inquiry into wrongdoing in Labor.

Anti-corruption watchdog calls out Victorian Labor’s rotten culture

“Significant cultural reform is required within the ALP” to rid the party of a culture that encouraged the misuse of public funds, nepotism and other wrongdoing, IBAC says.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sumeyya Ilanbey
Adem Somyurek will move a motion in the Victorian Parliament on Wednesday to refer the red shirts rort to the Victorian Ombudsman.

Somyurek push to refer red shirts rort back to Ombudsman gathers momentum

“If I was corrupt, we are all corrupt – that’s what I wanted tested at IBAC,” Adem Somyurek says. “Everyone acting with the red shirts scheme was corrupt, including me.” 

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Victorian Labor’s Right caucus are all smiles at a meeting following the 2018 election win. Clockwise L-R: Frank McGuire, Hong Lim, Meng Heang Tak, Manor Kumar, Neil Pharaoh, Sarah Connolly, Marlene Kairouz, Australian Workers Union secretary Ben Davis, unclear, Anthony Carbines, unclear, unclear, unclear, Robin Scott, unclear, Cesar Melhem, Colin Brooks, Adem Somyurek, Kaushaliya Vaghela, Tim Richardson, Luke Donnellan, Tien Kieu and Natalie Suleyman.

‘Total bloodletting’ for state Labor as seven MPs shown the door

Seven sitting MPs have been told their political careers are over, escalating the threat of byelections for the Andrews government.

  • Paul Sakkal and Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Grants awarded under the tenure of fallen ministers Marlene Kairouz and Robin Scott are being investigated.

Ex-ministers Kairouz and Scott face scrutiny over grant funding

Auditors will examine the grants issued in the gaming and multicultural affairs portfolios under the tenures of two under-pressure MPs.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
A Labor supporter wears the “red shirt” for Daniel Andrews’ election in 2014.

‘A matter for police’: Attorney-General refuses to comment on red shirts affair

The Age on Friday revealed detectives were directed by high-ranking officers to make sure that 16 named members of Parliament “not be arrested, photographed, searched if they are interviewed”.

  • Rachel Eddie
A Labor supporter wears the “red shirt” for Daniel Andrews’ election in 2014.

Police were prevented from arresting Labor MPs over ‘red shirts’ rort: documents

The secret police files from late 2018 reveal detectives were directed by high-ranking officers to make sure that 16 named members of Parliament “not be arrested, photographed, searched”.

  • Nick McKenzie
Adem Somyurek gives evidence before IBAC on Thursday.

‘Temporary insanity’: Somyurek concedes he failed in his responsibilities as an MP

Adem Somyurek deleted text messages in which he discussed forging signatures, pleading “temporary insanity” during the fierce factional battle for control of Labor Party branches in Melbourne’s south-east.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey and Paul Sakkal

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