The Labor Party’s Left faction resolved yesterday to push for significant reforms in the party’s rules and procedures at the ALP national conference scheduled for December.
The meeting of the national Left in Canberra yesterday also reaffirmed that the push for gay marriage would be on the agenda at the conference, with the aim of changing party policy from one of opposition to that of a conscience vote.
With a significant element of the Right also supportive, the policy change is likely to be effected. Sources said the meeting yesterday also discussed the government’s increasingly harsh asylum seeker policy, including the proposed Malaysia plan.
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