Chapter:
100 - General Resolutions
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Source:
Branch: Weston Creek
My Private Notes


Preamble
​In ACT Labor we pride ourselves on being the most democratic and member-led branch of the Australian Labor Party.
ACT Labor is committed to best-practice governance and operating with transparency.
As a result, ACT Labor members expect preselection processes to be democratic, member-led, effective, transparent, accountable and ethical. 
ACT members can also expect that the decision making processes set out in our publicly available Party Rules, are effective in guaranteeing preselection processes to be democratic, member-led, effective, transparent, accountable and ethical.
ACT Labor supports each of its endorsed candidates for the 2024 ACT Assembly election, 

however

ACT Labor is concerned about the need for the Federal Executive to intervene in the preselection process for Brindabella candidates following complaints that it was not member led, democratic, effective, transparent, accountable or ethical. 

ACT Labor is also concerned that, as a consequence, a candidate was dropped from the Murrumbidgee ticket to resolve issues in Brindabella in a way that has led to complaints that the decision was not member led, democratic, effective, transparent, accountable or ethical. 
General Resolution

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