Not necessarily
Labor loves doing swaps mid term
He could go tomorrow
Since when have Labor required an election to change the PM
Not the case these days Damo since Kevin Rudd came back (2nd go as PM).As leader he changed the rules and the party agreed
To change leaders the ALP now also require the membership to vote on a new leader. The result of that counts for 50% of the vote, the other 50% by caucus. So basically now a leader cannot be knifed
It is the reason that Albo didn't beocme leader when Rudd got slaugthered by Abbott in the 2013 election. Shorten got the job due the change in the way the ALP elect a leader
Interestingly, Abbott tried to bring in the same thing for the Liberal Party