From the AFR:
Labor has agreed to make it easier to dump an opposition leader than a prime minister, during a special caucus meeting at the Balmain Town Hall on Monday.
The caucus agreed with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s proposed rule change that a sitting prime minister could not be dumped unless at least 75 per cent of the caucus signed a petition.
However, after much debate, it was agreed that threshold should be 60 per cent when dumping an opposition leader.
Well, amid the schmozzle of this election, one good thing has happened. This will at least prevent the kind of opportunistic factional putsch that brought Gillard to power, which ought to buffer our democracy against vested interest attacks, whichever Party you favour.
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