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	australianpolitics.com: Daily Quote
		The national executive vote has exempted the Victorian branch of the party from two key measures designed to end the practice of branch stacking, which sees local Labor warlords sign up phony members en masse in order to endorse factional favourites as candidates in federal seats.
		As leader, Simon Crean identified branch stacking as a cancer within the party that was producing steadily more mundane candidates who were factional creatures increasingly isolated from the communities they claimed to represent.
		Crean convened a special party national conference in 2002 and at great cost to his leadership forced through changes aimed at ending branch stacking and reducing guaranteed union representation within the party from 60 per cent at conferences to 50 per cent, with the remaining delegates to be drawn from rank-and-file members.
	australianpolitics.com /words/2004/archives/00000229.shtml (893 words)

	Branch stacking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Australian politics, branch stacking is the act of enrolling persons to a party by offering inducement, or enrolling persons for the principal purpose of influencing the outcome of internal pre-selections of candidates for public office.
		Branch stacking is not illegal unless it involves the use of false identities or false electoral enrolments, but it is contrary to the rules of both major parties.
		In the Labor Party branch stacking tends to take the form of mass recruitment of members of particular ethnic groups to form branches which are easily directed by leaders of one faction or another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Branch_stacking (665 words)

	Branch (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Branch (computer science), point in the instruction stream of a computer program where the address of the next instruction is not the next sequential storage location
		Branch predictor, part of a processor that determines whether a conditional branch in the instruction flow of a program is likely to be taken or not
		Executive branch, the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law and running the day-to-day affairs of the government or state
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Branching (596 words)

	Liberals suspend branch over stacking claims - National - theage.com.au
		Letters were being sent out today informing branch members they would become "members at large" during the suspension unless they sought approval to transfer to another branch.
		There would be no investigation of the branch during that period, Ms Kroger said.
		The move from Liberal headquarters to rub out a branch offered a contrast with the state's Labor party which has also been beset with branch-stacking allegations in recent months.
	www.theage.com.au /news/National/Liberals-suspend-branch-over-stacking-claims/2005/05/09/1115584900462.html (398 words)

	Branch stacking link to federal Labor - National - theage.com.au
		The Left argues its campaign against branch stacking is designed to rid the ALP of a range of corrupt practices that are bringing the party into disrepute.
		In a letter to ALP headquarters he accuses former Carr staff member Glen Kelly and Pam Christoforidis, secretary of the Anstey branch in Senator Carr's stronghold, Melbourne's northern suburbs, of organising to pay the fees of Anstey branch members - a classic definition of branch stacking.
		Mr Yianoulatos charges Mrs Christoforidis and Mr Kelly with breaching Labor's rules on branch stacking, which state it is an offence "to pay for another's membership in an attempt to influence the outcome of any ballot of members within the party".
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/branch-stacking-link-to-federal-labor/2005/06/20/1119250926207.html?from=moreStories (496 words)

	Electoral reform
		“Branch stacking” would be pointless, since disgusted party supporters would not give first preference to a candidate who had achieved endorsement by unfair practice.
		By “branch members” is meant the volunteers who belong to the local branches or sub-branches of the political parties.
		Although the non-professional members of the local branches of political parties are opposed to one another politically, they have something important in common, namely public spirit and an interest in politics.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/Submission_Kilcullen.html (5203 words)

	Gathering boughs brings financial and spiritual benefits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Once gathered, he stacks his boughs on a four to five-foot long, broad, smooth, leafless branch of wiigwaas (birch).
		To expedite the process, on one end of the “stacking” branch, he carves a sharp point over which he easily slides his gathered boughs.
		After stacking, he secures the boughs by tying short branches perpendicular to and on each end of the stacking branch.
	www.glifwc.org /pub/winter01/bough_gathering.htm (347 words)

	Green Left - ALP rorts: just the tip of the iceberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ironically, when the federal ALP intervened in the Queensland branch in 1980, a rule was introduced which states that branch members, in order to vote in a preselection, have to be registered on the electoral roll for the relevant electorate.
		In contrast, Liberal Party branches can be stacked with members who live far away from the electorate in question, even from overseas and interstate.
		Branch stacking and rorting are part and parcel of the bourgeois (big business) political system where professional and unaccountable politicians get to make important decisions which have a major impact on the lives and well-being of large numbers of people.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2000/431/22183 (897 words)

	PRU GOWARD : FURTHER EVIDENCE OF NSW LIBERAL PARTY BRANCH STACKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The deep factional divisions between hard right and moderates in the NSW Liberal Party may rob her of the right to be the Liberal candidate for the seat.
		There is growing concern within the Epping branch about how the electorate would respond to the former Right to Life president, with some fearing it could open the way for an independent with pro-choice views.
		The Party's NSW Branch then confirmed that it had investigated 74 instances where right factional organisers had used their own credit cards to sign up other members to branches without their knowledge.
	expage.com /prugoward (727 words)

	"If Not Now, When?" - Submission by Lindsay Tanner MP to the ALP Review Committee [February 5, 2002]
		Labor's branch structure is decaying partly because it is one-dimensional.
		Allowing members to set up branches with a more specialised focus, such as a pensioners branch or a health workers branch, would remove an important barrier to increased membership activity, provided the opportunities opened up by the new structure are fostered by the party organisation.
		Liberalising the branch structure will help, but for the majority who remain members of locally based branches, the answer is to reorient their focus into the community.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/02-02-05.shtml (3604 words)

	Labor Party Seats for Sale?
		REPORTER: Ethnic branch stacking has become the weapon of choice in the bitter turf wars that divide the ALP's factions allowing them to buy seats in parliament and in the process stain the very heart of democracy.
		Micaleff claims his rivals in the right wing Labor Unity Faction stacked the ballot with members of the Cambodian community loyal to this man, Hong Lim, MP for the neighbouring seat of Clayton and a member of Labor Unity.
		Before entering parliament he was embroiled in a major row over branch stacking in the Turkish community and forced to leave his job with opposition leader, John Brumby.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_stories/transcript_208.asp (5882 words)

	Are Factions Killing the Labor Party? [Australian Fabian Society]
		Branch meetings are desultory, the Party is accused of being too hierarchical, and democratic centralism is a popular modus operandi.
		Virtually every State Branch was deeply in debt — for example, the 1988 Victorian State Campaign left debts of some $3 million, as did the 1990 and 1993 Federal Campaigns.
		It is rare to visit a State Branch and find either the Left or Right faction to be a unifying force.
	www.fabian.org.au /1077.asp (2567 words)

	Wo! Magazine
		Branch stacking has become the most well-known and useful tool of the factional warriors in achieving this end.
		The Dural-Oakhill branch has almost doubled in size to 126 and the 12 Berowra branches have increased to having 800 members signed on.
		Further branch stacking activity in Hawkesbury has led many to believe that Steven Pringle, long time serving MP for the seat of Hawkesbury to be the next to have his head on the chopping block.
	www.wo-magazine.com /website/issuethree/branchstacking.html (558 words)

	Stacking row splits Liberals The Sunday Times Aug 4 2002 p 2
		Party sources say the memberships were used to stack branches in mid-2000 in the lead-up to a Senate pre-selection contest in which president David Johnston won the unlosable No. 2 spot on the ticket.
		Critics say these people didn't intend to take a role in the Liberal Party and their memberships were used only to form new branches or rejuvenate branches that had fallen below the legal limit of 30 members.
		During these months all WA branches sent five delegates to their divisional conferences which in turn elected delegates to State Council, which selected the Senate team in April, 2001.
	www.multiline.com.au /~johnm/stacking.htm (918 words)

	Tony Harris \| 'Primal Socialist Innocence and the Fall'?: the ALP Left in Leichhardt Municipality in the 1980s \| Labour ...
		This was between the branch Left, in particular the Crawford element, keen to win public office, and Origlass and Wyner, appealing to the same constituency, and keen to seek vindication for their role in the 'wilderness' of independent politics.
		For the Left Balmain branch, the memory of political achievement lay in the branch stacking campaign against the right, the acquisition of the White Bay park and the successful defeat of Origlass and Wyner electorally in 1980 as part of the ALP Left's broader coming to power in the municipality.
		In Balmain, the branch which in late 1977 had hundreds of prospective members crowding the town hall the night a fire extinguisher was thrown through the window, was also down to around 50 in the early 1990s compared to three times that in the mid-1980s.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/86/harris.html (12195 words)

	Beware of the God > home
		Several NSW Liberal Party figures revealed on national television last week that their party is in the grip of extreme right wing Christian branch stackers.
		I mean, he would be opposed to anything, as all the right wing were, to homosexual law reform, to drug reform, to feminism, to removal of censorship to pornography, the whole range of those things which were identified as Liberal trendyism.
		He was perceived as a lieutenant who carried out the views of Urbanchich and co in their branch stacking and endeavouring to take control of a large measure of the party.
	www.bewareofthegod.com /?p=112 (799 words)

	NSW Libs in branch stacking crackdown - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
		Only 10 new members will be allowed to join a branch of less than 100 members each month, with a limit of 20 for larger branches, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
		Liberal backbencher Steven Pringle quit the NSW parliament this week with a scathing attack on his party, saying the preselection process was a rort and he had lost out on contesting the seat of Hawkesbury thanks to right-wing stacking of his branch.
		Mr Pringle's attacks on the Liberal Party came amid reports of branch stacking in the federal Sydney seat of Cook as part of a plan to depose moderate Bruce Baird.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/NSW-Libs-in-branch-stacking-crackdown/2006/10/21/1160851167179.html (313 words)

	Margo Kingston's Webdiary - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I consider it to be branch stacking where the members signed up do not intend to remain members for the long term, ie more than the 12 months covered by their membership fee, and do not attend meetings regularly.
		Where this become a Stack is when persons are recruited without their knowledge, or understanding of what they are joining, so Wentworth was NO stack.
		Stacking is an absolutely brain dead way to get ahead in politics, as it ultimately leaves you with no real grassroots support base and slowly kills the party on which you're dependent.
	webdiary.smh.com.au /archives/_comment/001089.html (5899 words)

	SunRRA - Re:How Telmo Languiller came to power - SunRRA Forum
		Branch stacking is a genuine threat to our democratic way of life.
		For example, the secretary elect of the Victorian ALP, David Feeney, was himself embroiled in a branch stacking scandal in 1994 and because of it was forced to leave his job in the office of the then opposition leader, John Brumby.
		But he believes the attack on his house occurred because he blew the whistle on branch stacking in NSW where the practice is as entrenched as anywhere else.
	www.sunshine.asn.au /index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&id=48&func=view&catid=2&id=7075 (3883 words)

	Attracting Insects and Birds to Gardens
		Papernest wasps never engender a warm feeling of joy, as their stings are painful, but they restore a balance in caterpillar numbers, and they keep you fit.
		Bird baths hung in lower branches are a must, particularly in dry weather.
		Together with the branch heaps and shaggy trees, you'll be the talk of the neighbourhood.
	branches.wildlife.org.au /bayside/wildlife/topics/murdoch.html (2708 words)

	Workers Online : Interview : 1999 - Issue 33 : The Boys
		Look, the issue of branch stacking is a really vexed one for the Party and has been for a long time.
		In the last couple of years we have refused or withdrawn the charter of six or seven branches on the issue of branch stacking.
		There are over 512 members in the Illawarra that had their membership refused at the local branches because of branch stacking.
	workers.labor.net.au /33/a_interview_boys.html (2738 words)

	The Australian: Branch stacking ousts Liberal MP [ 16oct06 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FOR the second time in a month, ethnic branch stacking has helped decide a key NSW Liberal state preselection.
		Mr Pringle said yesterday that he felt "betrayed" by "faceless machine men" in theparty and that the success of the factional campaign against him, including branch stacking, raised questions about Mr Debnam's leadership.
		"The Beaumont Hills branch was very difficult to counter when there were a large number of people with the same family name involved," Mr Pringle said yesterday.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /printpage/0,5942,20587498,00.html (403 words)

	7.30 Report - 16/8/1999: Branch-stacking case may push political parties to reform
		He describes it as the most blatant branch stacking operation he's ever seen, with the left and right factions wrestling for control.
		MIKE SEXTON: Ralph Clarke's inner city electorate isn't the only one where there are allegations of branch stacking.
		MIKE SEXTON: Professor of Politics at Flinders University, Andrew Parkin, says the system of branch preselection is outdated and too easily open to abuse.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s44235.htm (1134 words)

	The Whitlam Institute: Its Time: Issue 1: Settlement and the Suburbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This means it needs to examine it's branch structure and in particular, the use of ethnic branch stacking.
		It is an anomaly that the NSW ALP admits as members, individuals who are not eligible to vote in a general election.
		This encourages branch stacking by allowing permanent residents or those on special visas, the opportunity to participate in local ALP affairs.
	www.whitlam.org /its_time/1/Settlement.html (1300 words)

	Liberal Party in branch stacking probe - National - smh.com.au
		A branch stacking scandal involving up to 70 members of the Liberal Party has been referred to NSW Police for possible fraud, according to a newspaper report.
		The paper says the Liberal Party's NSW branch has confirmed investigating 74 instances where a small group of members had used their own credit cards to sign up other members to branches without their knowledge.
		It is believed the breaches of the party's constitution involved four senior members of the party attempting to renew other members' lapsed memberships to stack branches across Sydney.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/liberal-party-in-branch-stacking-probe/2005/10/29/1130400374328.html (283 words)

	Fiji Labor Party: From Unity to Dissent - Worldpress.org
		Moreover, there are even greater concerns of branch stacking by influential party members during nominations for elections for party positions as well as during nominations for general elections.
		The Vuda branch of the F.L.P. wrote to Jokapeci Koroi, requesting that Chaudhry be disciplined.
		It has become clear that the events of the past two months have created ill feelings and bad blood among many members of the F.L.P. On one side, there are dissidents who continue to accuse F.L.P. leader Chaudhry of autocratic rule and lack of transparency and accountability in management decisions.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=2588&dont=yes (1599 words)

	Queensland vote-rigging inquiry reveals: The rotting structures of the Australian Labor Party
		So has “branch stacking”, the practice of fraudulently boosting the number of supporters of one candidate over another by falsifying party membership lists and rigging internal pre-selection ballots.
		With his government holding a slim one-seat majority in the state parliament, Beattie told ABC radio that, due to “a range of circumstances some of which I will not control,” he could be forced to call an early election.
		Ehrmann was found to have submitted forged electoral enrolment forms in order to stack party branches during pre-selection ballots for Labor candidates in local and state government elections in 1993, 1994 and 1996.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/nov2000/qld-n27.shtml (1935 words)

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