Following what the Melbourne Age and Channel Nine described as a “year-long investigation”, the Sixty Minutes program on June 14 aired sensational allegations that a Victorian ALP factional leader and Cabinet Minister, Adem Somyurek, had been engaged in widespread branch stacking.
Somyurek is a member of Victoria’s Upper House, and has been responsible for recruiting ethnic Australians into the Victorian ALP, to swell the numbers of the right-wing faction. The Victorian Premier, Daniel …