Labor branch-stacking scandal: Steve Bracks moves to calm tensions over party cleanup

Victorian ALP administrator says the legitimacy of the membership must be established and it should be possible to do reasonably quickly'

The new administrator of the Victorian branch of the ALP, Steve Bracks, has attempted to calm internal tensions, saying it should be possible to conduct an audit of the membership reasonably quickly" allowing the party's federal executive to then determine whether or not to restore voting rights before 2023.

The ALP's national executive has launched an extraordinary intervention into the state branch as it grapples with the damaging fallout of the Adem Somyurek branch-stacking scandal, appointing party veterans Bracks and the former federal minister Jenny Macklin as administrators, and suspending all voting rights until at least 2023.