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More allegations against disgraced former Labor MP Adem Somyurek have emerged on day three of the IBAC hearing into “premeditated systemic rorting of taxpayer resources”.

Deputy Federal Labour leader Richard Marles has been revealed to have been the star billing at a fundraiser in 2016 where IBAC witness and Federal MP Anthony Byrne said that the money raised was used to pay for party memberships and branch stacks.

Wannabe politicians with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews government feared if they did not break the law, they would disappear.

A rogue minister within Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews government was so involved with branch stacking he was concerned about dead members casting votes, an inquiry has heard. 

A public inquiry into alleged corruption within Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews government has moved closer to directly involving him. 

In an anti-corruption hearing on Monday, federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne admitted paying for peoples party membership fees to boost support for his moderate faction.

Anthony Albanese is standing by an MP accused of branch stacking, despite demanding the sacking of Liberals accused of the same thing.

An executive assistant in Adem Somyurek’s office tells commission she was told to work on ALP factional activities instead of minister’s portfolios

Until we clean up the processes by which candidates are selected and seated, we will keep getting MPs with no real incentive to do the right thing and whose primary loyalty is to powerbrokers.

The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission grilled Anthony Byrne on the first day of public hearings probing the misuse of taxpayer-funded staff and grants in which the veteran Labor MP admitted his own involvement in branch stacking and paying for memberships