Labor's big Victorian meltdown
Labor's alleged Victorian branch-stacking crisis keeps expanding. There are reports that as much as a quarter of the state's membership might have signed up under questionable circumstances. In the days following those allegations, the Victorian Government has lost three ministers, all of whom deny any wrongdoing. Now, Federal Labor has stepped in, appointing administrators to the state branch until next year and seizing control of preselections. So how could it have happened, and what sort of fallout might be yet to come?