Explainer: What's branch stacking and why does it happen?
Businesspeople, often from the same migrant community as the stacker, can also provide backing.
Having a party more open to the views and wishes of ordinary members could encourage a more representative party and make it harder to manipulate and stack.Labor has made some changes to become more democratic, such as the involvement of rank-and-file members in electing party leaders .Many in Labor are alarmed by the experience in Britain, where Labour Party members, who have far more say than here, elected Jeremy Corbyn, their most left-wing leader in decades.
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