On any measure, a government losing three ministers to a branch- stacking scandal – replete with revelations of factional warfare, vicious hatreds, violent threats, and a whiff of corruption – has had a bad week indeed.
Yet Victorian Labor’s subterranean goings-on, whose spectacular eruption last week threatened to blow a hole in the ALP nationally, are the tip of the iceberg.
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Yale Stephens is a Melbourne-based journalist and writer.
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