Original article by Shannon Deery, Mitch Clarke, Kieran Rooney, Rhiannon Tuffield
Herald Sun – Page: Online : 10-Feb-22

Victoria’s upper house has passed Adem Somyurek’s motion to have Labor’s ‘Red Shirts’ scandal referred to the state’s Ombudsman for further investigation. The motion was passed after Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela joined the Opposition and the 12 crossbenchers in voting for a new probe into the $388,000 taxpayer rort. Vaghela is the first Labor MP to ‘cross the floor’ since the party won office in 2014; she is a close ally of Somyurek, and could be expelled by Labor. She says branch-stacking is endemic within Labor, and an investigation into the Socialist Left faction of Premier Daniel Andrews and other groups is needed.

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