An independent review of the preselection process in Brindabella and its consequences for Murrumbidgee
ACT Labor recommends that:
1. All candidates endorsed to contest the 2024 ACT Assembly elections receive the full support of ACT Labor membership
2. A review of the preselection processes for Brindabella and Murrumbidgee be conducted by an individual independent of the decision makers in those preselection processes.
3. Any Branch Council member can nominate a candidate to conduct the review
4. The reviewer will be appointed by the ACT Labor President following a vote on the floor of the Branch Council
5. The reviewer will have access to any document deemed necessary to conduct the review
6. The review will provide its findings in a written report that determines whether the preselection processes for Brindabella and Murrumbidgee were conducted in a way that was member led, democratic, effective, transparent, accountable and ethical.
7. The written report will also make recommendations to Branch Council on:
• whether changes are needed to ACT Labor's current preselection processes; and
• If changes are required, what they are; and
• whether consequent changes to Party Rules will be required to accommodate them.
8. The report will be provided to the President of ACT Labor within three months of the appointment of the reviewer
9. The President of ACT Labor will submit the Report to Branch Council for action on its recommendations by the last Branch Council meeting of 2024.
10. The Report of the reviewer be provided to all party members before it is considered by Branch Council