Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had been doing an all-out clean-up campaign saying that the Australian Labor Party will undergo reformation under his rule. However, just weeks after his announcement, Australian Labor Party members were already showing doubts over the 'clean-up'.

In an interviwe with News.com.au, Tim Mitchell, a local branch member and former head of Labor's state electoral council for the seat said that, "Kevin Rudd last week announced reforms to clean up the party - a lot of member will have serious doubt that they will have a clean and proper process this week to ensure eligible members of the party will be voting in the pre-selection this Saturday."

Mr Rudd had previously vowed to uphold democracy within the party through candidacy bids and had called for all qualified outstanding preselections to be ranked and file their ballots.

However, in midday of July 15 2013, in less than 24 hours, people were already asked to vote for whom they viewed as unqualified candidates before a vote in five days time as compared to up to three weeks for all other outstanding preselections.

In the wake of this issue, Mr Rudd was also being called to intervene in the seat of Kingsford Smith, in Sydney's south, as there had been claims that the preselection to Labor Senator Matt Thistlethwaite was manipulated in time for the voting this coming July 20.

In a report from The Daily telegraph, there had been documents proving that there were irregularities in the list of membership list of Mr Thistlethwaite's local branch of Malabar.

In the documents there was more than half of the entire branch membership who had supposedly paid their membership fees on the same day. The payments coincided on March 31 cut off-date to become eligible to vote in this week's ballot.

Senior ALP members who refused to be named said that these documents were highly suspicious and that the party head office should investigate the matter.

One local ALP member said, "It's not stacking - more like a front end loader..." and that "bad old days" were happening again. "the rules are quite clear. No one else can pay for your membership, if someone else paid for your membership it would be paid in bulk. The question is where did the money come from?"

Labor mayor of Randwick, Tony Bowen who planned to contest the preselection against Mr Thistlethwaite said that the suspicious incident overshadowed Mr Rudd's promise to reform the party within.

Mr Bowen said, "given the trouble that beset the NSW Labor party in recent years and the amount of scrutiny this preselection will be under and its significance nationally, it has to be absolutely squeaky clean... there cannot be any margin for any funny business."

The suspicion against Mr Thistlethwaite was provoked by claims that he was reluctant to give up his safe Senate seat for the lower house because he had always desired for a marginal position.

Another issue tainting Mr Rudd's clean-up campaign was that he just recently appointed his son Nicholas Rudd, 24, lawyer, as one of his key adviser and member of the Prime Minister's travelling party.

In a report from News Limited Atty Rudd was already involved in the drafting of the reforms of the Labor Party that the mr Rudd had announced on July 15.

However amidst doubts about his son's capacity, a senior Alp member said that the son was ".. very smart, and is of enormous value to us, for many reasons."

In defence of his son, Mr Rudd said, " He is smart. And was employed on his merits."