Deputy leader Tanya Plibersek says the Labor Party should not be putting up barriers to members. Source: AAP
DEPUTY Labor leader Tanya Plibersek says the party should in some circumstances open up its membership to those not in a union, saying it would be "crazy" not to welcome them.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has said he wants to double the ALP's membership from 44,000 to 100,000, and according to News Corporation will soon announce changes to the party's membership rules.
He wants to scrap rules - often ignored by the party's branches - which restrict membership to those who belong in a union.
The largely symbolic reforms would further limit the party's links to a union movement, soon to be subject of a royal commission into governance and corruption.
Ms Plibersek said the ALP needed to recognise that for the likes of the self-employed, retirees and the unemployed there was no natural union in which they could be members.
"If the only barrier to someone joining the Labor Party is that there's not a natural union for them to join, then that's a crazy reason for not welcoming them into the Labor party," she told Sky News on Sunday.
"We're interested in increasing membership, opening up to people."
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