Australian Labor Party caucus

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Would suggest it would be more fun to go with 'totally not party x' rather than actually use the name.

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Some variation on the theme of 'Labour', because this will be a Labourist party (presumably). But it doesn't really matter what...

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Name: Frank Connor
Age: 59
Party: Labor
Faction: Right
Address: Moonee Ponds, Vic.
Electorate: Maribyrnong
Place of Birth: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Occupation: AWU official
Property Owned: A house in Moonee Ponds, a flat in Canberra and odd little plots of land here and there. Continues to own Connor's Quality Cars (see below), which has proven to be something of a gift to satirists.
Religion: Roman Catholic

Brief Biography: Connor grew up in the slum district of Summer Lane, before moving a council estate at Tile Cross in the 1960s. He left school at 15 and worked for many years at the Longbridge car works (where he was a shop steward in the Transport & General Workers Union for about a year). Laid off during the early 1980s, he emigrated to Australia in 1987. Settling in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds he worked as a second hand car salesman ('Connor's Quality Cars'), before finding employment with the Australian Workers Union. A talented backroom organiser, Connor played a very minor role in the AWU's amalgamation with the FIM&EE but somehow managed to convince sufficient people that his role was critical, and thus his career was made. Connor rose rapidly through the AWU before turning his attention to politics, and in 2004 he orchestrated the ousting of the incumbent for the division of Maribyrnong in a particularly blatant factional coup. His subsequent political career has followed a similar trajectory to his career in the labour movement.

Other entries have been filled out but will not be posted in public.

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Mr Connor values his privacy. The information has been passed on to Hugh.

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A picture of Mr Connor has been added to his profile. Let's see if anyone gets the joke

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Tom Henry

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abstain

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Our priority ought to be higher living standards and better public services, not this wishy-washy constitutional nonsense beloved of the inner city elite rather than our base and swing voters.

Unless you would all prefer to lose the election.

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I'm not suggesting that we adopt a conservative line on such matters, not at all. But you all need to remember that elections are won in the outer suburbs and in the regional electorates, not in the affluent inner cities. We can include all manner of useful reforms in our programme, of course. But the emphasis must be on living standards and better public services.

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I suggest a massive nationwide programme of infrastructure building and the like.