The motion to re-investigate Victoria Labor’s 2014 red shirts scandal by the Ombudsman and potentially IBAC has passed the state parliament’s upper house with votes 19 to 17 after Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela crossed the floor to vote in favour of the motion. It is against the party’s rules to vote against the party, and Kaushaliya has announced on Feb. 9 in posts on both her Twitter and Facebook accounts that she will be resigning. The red shirts scandal (pdf) from 2014 was due to Labor paying hiring field organisers as casual electorate officers so that they will be paid by parliamentary funding to engage in campaigning. Introducing his motion to Victorian parliament on Feb. 9, Somyurek claimed the red shirts program was designed by the Victorian Labor Premier, Daniel Andrews, ahead of the 2014 election. “[Daniel Andrews] did something well beyond what he should’ve—he crossed the line, he designed …
Labor MP Crosses Floor To Pass Investigation into Red Shirts Scandal in State Parliament
February 10, 2022
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