Branch-stacking is a venerable Labor party political dark art. This practice, while kinda-sorta legal, is highly dubious. Indeed, when caught openly bragging about it, Labor powerbrokers have been forced to resign.
Branch-stacking is a process where, in order for a faction (and factions are as Labor as ALP) to secure its chosen candidate’s nomination, over the objections of rank-and-file members, hundreds of new ‘members’ are signed up to a particular branch, en masse. Almost invariably, this is done by weaponising tribal ethnic communities. Most of these ‘members’ never show up to a single meeting and most have their memberships paid by the faction in question – but they all get to vote in the branch’s preselections. Oddly enough, they all vote as a single mass for the faction in question’s candidate.
In 2002, Labor elder statesmen Bob Hawke and Neville Wran described the practice as having a ‘cancerous effect’ on democratic traditions
Imagine how much more cancerous it is for Australian democracy when branch-stacking is carried on openly, across the nation.
Because that’s exactly what happened with Labor’s grotesque, Maoist, ‘mass citizenship rallies’ in the weeks before the last federal election. To make it blatantly office, each rally was accompanied by voter-enrolment booths.
Lest anyone doubt just what Labor’s game was, all but one of the mass rallies were held in Labor or marginal left-leaning seats. Recall that, before the coalition completely bollixed its campaign, Labor were in deep trouble. Hence what was obviously a frantic sand-bagging measure.
Just one of the 25 citizenship ceremonies personally ordered by Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship Minister Tony Burke and staged in the lead up to the May federal election was hosted in a coalition-held seat.
In the weeks before the federal election, the government faced accusations from the Coalition and several Sydney mayors that it was encouraging migrants to vote Labor by staging an extra round of citizenship ceremonies at which 12,500 people took the pledge.
Mr Burke rejected those claims, insisting he was not fast-tracking applications but addressing a “huge backlog” of eligible candidates, and dismissed suggestions the move was aimed at sandbagging marginal Labor seats.
Sure – and Burke welcoming ‘Palestinian’ ‘refugees’ wasn’t a direct ploy to voters in his seat, the most Muslim-dominated seat in the entire country.
Does Burke really expect us to believe that it was just a coincidence that 80 per cent of them were in Labor-held seats? Ninety-seven per cent of them in left-leaning seats. And only one in a coalition-held seat?
A response to a question on notice provided by Homes Affairs Department officials reveals the number of citizenship ceremonies conducted in Labor electorates far outweighs those then held by Green, independent and Coalition MPs.
The round of ceremonies held in late February and early March saw 21 take place in four Labor electorates: Adelaide, Reid in Sydney’s inner west, Macnamara in Melbourne’s southeast, and Perth.
By contrast, Brisbane, then held by the Greens before Labor’s May win, hosted only two.
The central Hobart seat of Clark, represented by independent Andrew Wilkie, and Groom, the LNP’s Toowoomba-based seat, each staged just one ceremony.
Of course the ALP can always rely on the legacy media to have their backs.
The accusations of politicisation in Australia’s migration program follow similar claims made by firebrand Liberal senator Jacinta Price, who falsely claimed last month that Labor was prioritising Indian migrants to deliver it additional votes.
Except it wasn’t ‘false’ at all. Firstly, Price was quoting Labor’s own strategist, who bragged that 85 per cent of Indian migrants voted Labor. Secondly, we have the revelations that Anthony Albanese took $1000 per head to host lunches with high-profile Indian migration agents. We also know that Labor has made multiple changes to migration laws in order to facilitate Indian migration – and Indians have subsequently become the top source of permanent migrants and the second-largest source of ‘foreign students’, which is well known to be little more than a backdoor migration scam.
The legacy media are the only people who lie harder than a Labor politician.
