The WA Labor Party managed to embarrass itself in the full glare of the cameras over the weekend when its state conference exploded into a scene of walkouts and infighting.
It became a public fight after a group aligned to the right faction walked outThe tension began on day one, with keynote speaker and WA Premier Mark McGowan forced to speak to a half-empty room after the mass walkout during the introduction and Welcome to Country.
Things remained awkward on day two, with federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese flying in to deliver his address in the middle of a full-blown factional firestorm.Who is fighting whom within Labor?was formed in 2017 to take on the dominance of the Left faction within the WA party at the time. Right faction unions banded together with the maritime and construction unions, traditionally from the left, to better influence Labor policies and the preselection of candidates for state and federal elections.
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