Home ‘The kind of generation we need to reconnect with’ … Labor could preselect Basem Abdo to replace retiring MP Maria Vamvakinou and contest the next federal election. Photograph Basem Abdo Supplied ‘The kind of generation we need to reconnect with’ … Labor could preselect Basem Abdo to replace retiring MP Maria Vamvakinou and contest the next federal election. Photograph Basem Abdo Supplied

‘The kind of generation we need to reconnect with’ … Labor could preselect Basem Abdo to replace retiring MP Maria Vamvakinou and contest the next federal election. Photograph Basem Abdo Supplied

‘The kind of generation we need to reconnect with’ … Labor could preselect Basem Abdo to replace retiring MP Maria Vamvakinou and contest the next federal election. Photograph: Basem Abdo/Supplied

Veteran Labor member for Calwell in Melbourne’s outer north-west has informed Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, that she will step down at the upcoming poll due by the middle of 2025..