EXCLUSIVE Party's over... now it's knives out at Labor as insiders spill on frontbench bloodbath to come: PVO reveals who's safe and who's getting punted as left faction seizes control
Killing season at Labor HQ
Even though it's all celebrations publicly over at Labor HQ, a brouhaha is breaking out within the new-look parliamentary party as the factional left and right go to war divvying up the spoils of victory.
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