THE Victorian opposition has called for embattled Labor MP Adem Somyurek to pay back thousands of dollars he has received in ministerial salary after being stood down last month. “That’s much more than the average Victorian earns in any one week — so we are calling on Adem Somyurek to hand back the salary that he is receiving as a Minister when he is not doing the job.’’. “There are some journalists who are absolutely complicit in this behaviour,’’ a Labor insider said. The previous century was nearly at its end, Australia was counting down to an historic vote on the republic and, in another seemingly doomed political contest in Melbourne’s south-east suburbs, a young Adem Somyurek was announcing himself to the Labor machine. His animus towards Andrews made him a valuable source for any journalist seeking to do the government harm.

Within the political system there are meant to be institutional checks to prevent misuse of power by elected officials. What mattered was the numbers. SUSPENDED Victorian minister Adem Somyurek is still picking up $2,362 a week extra despite being stood down from his job. THE ministerial top-up salary - more than the average Victorian earns - comes on top of his base salary of more than $150,000. The ALP is no less deluded if it thinks getting rid of Somyurek will fix its problems. But Somyurek is a symptom, not the disease.

The findings of an investigation overseen by retired judge Michael Strong prompted Andrews to strip Somyurek of ministerial duties and demote him to the backbench.

That changed once Somyurek went to work on a block of about 200 Turkish voters who’d pledged support for Hennessy.

They rose through the Labor ranks as contemporaries and factional rivals. They shared an interest in politics and foreign policy. But by Friday afternoon, Finn had stood aside from her role as Labor’s spokeswoman for carers and consumer protection. Former premier Steve Bracks and retired federal MP Jenny Macklin have been called in to clean up the mess.

Originally published asPay rolls in for suspended Vic minister. He believed he could control the press, just as he wielded the numbers. He is sincere in that belief.”. Coronavirus Victoria: October 19 flagged as new date to reac... Adam Bandt says ‘years of cutting away’ at public service co... NSW coronavirus restrictions easing today. Credit:AAP. Somyurek, the Turkish-born son of local factory workers, was helping the rival campaign of his friend Anthony Byrne, a candidate supported by the party’s Right.

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She resigned on Friday but maintained her innocence.

Somyurek and Byrne would remain firm friends and political allies until the seismic events of this week, when an investigation by The Age and 60 Minutes exposed the rot within Labor. Piece by piece he had created a dominant, omnibus faction, dubbed the New Deal, which melded his own considerable numbers with the party’s Industrial Left and members of the Right faction still loyal to Bill Shorten.

Meanwhile, the troubled NSW branch of the party was also dealing with the fallout of its own branch-stacking controversy this week. As one observer noted, branch stacking is an allegation almost entirely reserved for political figures with non-Anglo backgrounds. The preferred candidate of their Socialist Left faction was Jill Hennessy, a smart, progressive lawyer who would later become the state's attorney-general.

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