ALP takes action on woman
LABOR'S affirmative action policy has been successfully challenged in a cut-throat federal preselection in Queensland.
LABOR'S affirmative action policy has been successfully challenged in a cut-throat federal preselection in Queensland, at the expense of the woman who had won it.
The Queensland ALP's administrative committee was last night expected to accept the finding of a dispute tribunal and install union official Andrew Ramsay as candidate for Wright, southwest of Brisbane.
Mr Ramsay, from the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, had won ballots of rank-and-file preselectors and an electoral college including Kevin Rudd, but was edged out when the affirmative-action weighting was applied in favour of media consultant Sharon Murakami, backed by the Right.
This put the Left in the uncomfortable position of being seen to challenge a policy it had championed.
Wright is regarded as notionally conservative on the basis of past voting patterns.
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