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Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles will be the only candidates for the new federal Labor party leadership team, unless there is a late shock Monday.
No other candidate nominated to replace Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek, nominations ending Monday. The caucus will meet on Thursday.
The two men promised to talk to voters who did not vote Labor in order to make sure they understood the loss of last Saturday's election.
"It's really important that we understand what happened during the elections, and we need to make sure we talk to as many people as possible," Marles told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday.
Mr. Albanese also promised to talk to voters outside the Canberra Bubbles and Labor to convince them that his party can better represent them.
The Labor Party has a man and a woman in the executive team since 2001, with the exception of a three-month stay in 2013 after Kevin Rudd took revenge on the first woman Prime Australian Minister, Julia Gillard.
But Victorian MP Clare O Neil abandoned the race for deputation after her colleagues told her that she needed more experience to pull the party behind a leader.
"Richard Marles has the skills, qualities and experience at this stage to be able to do this job very well," Ms. O'Neill told ABC Insiders.
Mr. Marles said it was important to maintain the unity of the party Bill Shorten had established within the Labor Party after the tumultuous years of Rudd-Gillard.
"I hope I can be a force for unity in the party," he said.
Mrs O'Neill was right to complain about the "much too crowded" policy collection.
"We adopted a bulky, heavy and risky political agenda, and it was difficult to explain, difficult to defend and very easy to handle," said Ms. O. Neil.
The entire front bench of Labor also faces an upheaval after the unexpected loss of federal elections.
Australian Associated Press
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