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Advertisement In a situation described by an eminent barrister as an “omnishambles”, a Labor Party preselection could be halted by the Supreme Court a day after a state government minister held a rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament calling for a woman to be installed as the candidate for a new federal seat. The bitter contest for the sear of Hawke, an outer-northern Melbourne electorate in safe Labor territory, might be delayed after 10 unions persuaded the court to further consider their arguments for preventing the preselection ballot from going ahead on Friday. A facti...

Advertisement Victorian senator Kim Carr is “on death row”, Labor powerbrokers say, but the veteran left-wing warrior has vowed to fight for his career and is being backed by one of the state’s most powerful union leaders. Blue-collar unions and figures from the party’s Left faction are rounding on Senator Carr as he eyes another term in Parliament that would take his time there beyond 30 years. Veteran Labor senator Kim Carr. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen The early contenders to replace the 65-year-old include Maurice Blackburn lawyer Josh Bornstein, 55, and think-tank directo...

Former cabinet minister Marlene Kairouz takes legal action over branch-stacking probe We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss 12.13pm Normal text size Advertisement Former cabinet minister Marlene Kairouz has launched legal action against 26 high-ranking Labor MPs and executives, including Labor leader Anthony Albanese, claiming she is being unlawfully pursued by the party. Almost all of Labor’s national executive and interim administrators Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin are expected to be served legal documents within the coming days. Former ca...

unlike a doughnut, surrounded the empty vacuous space with wonderful goodness. we've brought in igor volsky joining us because it is tuesday. plus we're talking sports with cindy boren from "the washington post" and chris moody from yahoo news and sabrina in the third and final hour of the show. yesterday, bob schieffer had some choice words for the obama administration over their handling of the press and how their press shop has been dealing with members -- dealing with members of the media. sort of a shutout. a lot of people have talked about this and how eric holder and the justi...