Anthony Carbines delivered a fiery spray<\/a> over the party\u2019s failure to address concerns about the Big Build corruption scandal.<\/p>\nThe senior Labor MP reportedly told colleagues that on their current trajectory, next year\u2019s caucus retreat would be much smaller.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t need a caucus conference next year, we\u2019ll all fit in a minivan,\u201d he told his colleagues.<\/p>\n
Labor Party rules allow the leader to be dumped by a simple majority vote of caucus.<\/p>\n
However, this would only be done if there is a consensus candidate to replace her.<\/p>\n
If multiple MPs then nominate for the role, party rules dictate that a vote of both the parliamentary Labor caucus and Victorian party members would need to be held to decide the result.<\/p>\n
With just four months to go before Victorians go to the polls, a drawn-out leadership battle would likely be catastrophic for the party\u2019s chances of retaining government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Momentum is growing for a challenge to Jacinta Allan\u2019s leadership ahead of parliament returning next week. Victorian Labor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[393339,393327,393352,393333,393340,393332,374801,376963,393334,393350,381858,393326,393362,393356,393323,393357,393314,393369,393329,393371,393360,376509,393347,2655,393374,393342,64,63,49927,393349,393348,126810,56957,393372,376920,4268,393328,43247,3786,393365,16287,393319,393351,1788,393338,393358,393336,34404,393361,30132,133787,62561,34529,393324,393315,44,51485,155207,393321,9801,393346,20246,393318,84,393353,393370,393341,232,393354,393335,22410,177343,393344,393331,393367,393330,393325,393363,393320,378945,393359,393368,393337,384165,378652,393345,274819,383260,376555,393343,393322,393373,393364,393317,389190,199184,660,393316,393355,393366],"class_list":["post-817741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-caucus-retreat","tag-s-chances","tag-s-failure","tag-s-leadership","tag-s-own-socialist-left-faction","tag-despondent","tag-2026-victorian-election","tag-a-bit","tag-a-block","tag-a-caucus-conference","tag-a-challenge","tag-a-consensus-candidate","tag-a-cross-factional-delegation","tag-a-cuddle","tag-a-drawn-out-leadership-battle","tag-a-few-scallywags","tag-a-fiery-spray","tag-a-growing-number","tag-a-minivan","tag-a-resurgence","tag-a-simple-majority-vote","tag-a-vote","tag-a-wipeout","tag-abc","tag-anonymous-gossip","tag-any-hope","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ballarat","tag-both-the-parliamentary-labor-caucus","tag-caucus","tag-colleagues","tag-concerns","tag-deputy-premier-ben-carroll","tag-earlier-this-year","tag-election","tag-election-wipeout","tag-fear","tag-government","tag-his-colleagues","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-jacinta-allan-leadership-challenge","tag-just-four-months","tag-labor","tag-labor-leadership-challenge","tag-labor-mps","tag-last-chance","tag-leader","tag-leadership-rumblings","tag-march","tag-media-reports","tag-momentum","tag-mps","tag-ms-allan","tag-multiple-mps","tag-news","tag-next-week","tag-next-year","tag-not-anonymous-gossip","tag-parliament","tag-party-rules","tag-picture","tag-police-minister-anthony-carbines","tag-politics","tag-premier-jacinta-allan","tag-premier-jacinta-allan-approaches","tag-renewed-leadership-threats","tag-reports","tag-right-faction-mps","tag-snapp-politics-generic-labor-party-rules","tag-support","tag-the-australian","tag-the-big-build-corruption-scandal","tag-the-defectors","tag-the-election-approaches","tag-the-last-realistic-chance","tag-the-leader","tag-the-leadership","tag-the-left-controlled-etu-and-amwu","tag-the-majority","tag-the-mood","tag-the-most-likely-replacement","tag-the-november-election","tag-the-outlet","tag-the-party","tag-the-polls","tag-the-premier","tag-the-result","tag-the-role","tag-the-senior-labor-mp","tag-the-so-called-southeast-left","tag-their-annual-caucus-retreat","tag-their-current-trajectory","tag-their-leader","tag-their-support","tag-this-week","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-labor-mps","tag-victorian-party-members","tag-victorians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}