Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass has previously investigated the Andrews government over the “red shirts” affair and found taxpayer money had been incorrectly used to fund electorate office staff to campaign for Labor.
The party eventually repaid almost $388,000 that was misused in 2014.
Yesterday, Victoria’s upper house passed rebel former Labor MP Adem Somyurek’s motion to have Labor’s ‘Red Shirts’ scandal referred to the state’s Ombudsman for further investigation. The motion was passed after Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela joined the Opposition and the 12 crossbenchers in voting for a new probe into the $388,000 taxpayer rort.
