Labor under growing pressure over disgraced former minister's role in Labor's local government power play
Natalie Hutchins,Shaun Leane and Danny Pearson were sworn in on Monday morning,following branch stacking scandal that claimed the scalps of three ministers.
The reason he was able to attain such influence was that many people in leadership positions in the ALP did not want to see anything.
Premier Daniel Andrews is to sit down with union leaders in the wake of the Adem Somyurek branch-stacking scandal to reassure them they won’t be entirely cut out of the process of preselecting MPs.
Clearly,what is needed is an independent commission of inquiry into the structure,rules and regulations governing all political parties in Australia and the destructive culture parties breed.
Surrounded day after day by forelock tuggers and door openers,it is a rare politician who does not develop a surreal relationship with the very citizens they are there to help.
Adem Somyurek was protected by journalists,opposition MPs and a Labor caucus too scared to speak up.
IBAC joins forces with the Ombudsman to probe allegations of misuse of taxpayer funds by party figures,as unions ramp up resistance to a federal takeover.
Daniel Andrews is emerging as a massive winner from the fall of Adem Somyurek. But for his party the landscape ahead is much less certain.
Could this deplorable,unseemly and repugnant display of self-interest,vice and delusion have come at a worse time for Victorians?
"The moment you start doing anything along ethnic or religious lines,you are asking for a disaster waiting to happen,"Australia India Society of Victoria president Karan Gandhok said.