'Backroom buffoonery': ALP President lashes factional warlords

By Adam Gartrell, Political Correspondent
Updated January 23 2018 - 9:08pm, first published 9:01pm
Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water, Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten address the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 1 November 2013.
Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water, Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten address the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 1 November 2013. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

ALP president Mark Butler has lashed out at the "backroom buffoonery" of the party's factional warlords, accusing them of blocking internal reforms and leaving Labor's members with fewer rights than in any comparable movement in the world.

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