Outspoken Labor MP Julia Irwin has fired a parting shot at the party machine while announcing she will not be contesting the next federal voting.
Ms Irwin said branch-stacking in her western Sydney seat of Fowler had become rampant, leading to the devastation of an effective local Labor branch.
"Despite the broader representation of women and a more outward looking party of gender, Labor, at least in the part of western Sydney that I am familiar with, can no longer claim to be a party with a strong grassroots organisation,'' she said.
"For the whole of my four terms in this place the Fowler voters has been a factional battleground.''
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Ms Irwin said branch-stacking in her western Sydney seat of Fowler had become rampant, leading to the devastation of an effective local Labor branch.
"Despite the broader representation of women and a more outward looking party of gender, Labor, at least in the part of western Sydney that I am familiar with, can no longer claim to be a party with a strong grassroots organisation,'' she said.
"For the whole of my four terms in this place the Fowler voters has been a factional battleground.''
useful links: los angeles movers, transport rankings
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