Anthony Albanese may decide who runs in safe Labor seat as deputy PM and union locked in tussle
by Paul Karp Chief political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6QP2P)
Richard Marles and Bill Shorten's old union, the Australian Workers Union, in stoush to pick candidate for Gorton
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The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, is locked in a struggle with Bill Shorten's old union, the Australian Workers Union, to pick the next candidate for the safe Labor seat of Gorton.
Shorten's seat of Maribyrnong will be contested by the left's Jo Briskey while Labor's choice for Gorton is a tussle between the climate change and water policy expert Alice Jordan-Baird and the Brimbank mayor, Ranka Rasic.
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