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Over the past few weeks an internal brawl over who will represent the Labor party in the western Sydney seat of Fowler at the next federal election has been playing out in public.
The move to parachute in a high profile Labor frontbencher, who doesn’t live in the seat, has exposed the rifts and rivalries within the party.
But it's also raised a bigger question.. Is Labor doing enough to make sure its candidates actually represent their voters?
Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton on what is really driving the battle for Fowler, and what it says about the Labor party.
Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Karen Middleton
Background reading: Inside Kristina Keneally’s preselection battle in The Saturday Paper
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