ALP wants to take back the party from itself. Labor Party hacks such as Darcy Byrne want to take back the party from the faceless men. “That’s why I am standing as a rank-and-file delegate,” he says in campaigning for the NSW Policy Forum. “We need to take control of our policy agenda away from political operators.” Away from political operators? As has been pointed out to Crikey, Byrne sits on the Left executive and works in the office of parliamentary powerbroker Anthony Albanese. “He is a political operator,” insists our correspondent.
Policy forum comes with spam. Meanwhile, Labor members are being inundated with mail from candidates for the forum. One complains about unwanted email from Ian McNamara: “I’d already tried to unsubscribe from whatever list they were spamming me from when I received two unsolicited emails from Dave Latham. I posted on Ian’s campaign Facebook group wall to ask where he got my email and why my repeated requests to have my details removed from ALP lists were ignored. My post was deleted within seconds.”
It’s always been in the back pocket. Nothing new in Greg Combet receiving more covert briefings from his department, as we suggested yesterday, assures one former senior public servant: “I can assure you that back pocket briefings are a normal part of the briefing process no matter who is in government.” We figured.
Uni reconsiders recruit. Which prominent university is apparently having second thoughts about the real value of its recent star recruit as it discovers more about the individual’s previous employment history?
Dumb email for smart TV. Does someone at the ABC have a problem with Waleed Aly? This email was dispatched yesterday afternoon …
I would say more negative press and image will sorround the National Conference.
They cannot take a trick right now
SB , and you know about tricks ?
Uni reconsiders recruit?! Couldn’t possibly be the eminent Prof Les Stein recently appointed to Pace Uni’s Faculty of Law in New York? But is New york far enough away from recent judgements against him in the Perth Federal Court for illegally selling Firepower shares? As sole director of his company Sattvic, Les Stein, a former judge, admitted the 6-8 breaches which had been prosecuted by ASIC. Obviously the penalty imposed by the Court did not impede his departure to New York. Still, one of the eminent Prof’s books is “Urban Legal Problems” published by the Law Book Company in Sydney back in the 70s so he probably knew full well how to manage his problems. It didn’t of course do too much for the 1400 Firepower investors who lost $100 million when that company, of which the Prof was also a Director, went into liquidation in 2008.