Queensland Labor Party official quits post in faction rout Party insiders believe Anthony Chisholm will replace fellow Right faction member Joe Ludwig. Picture: Peter Wallis Source: News Limited Former Bligh Government MP Evan Moorhead is expected to assume the party's most influential backroom role. LONG-serving Labor state secretary Anthony Chisholm is set to step aside, igniting speculation he will replace a sitting Queensland senator. In a move that will demonstrate the Left faction's new-found dominance over Queensland Labor, former Bligh Government MP Evan Moorhead is expected to assume the party's most influential backroom role. NO MUG: ALP "should have wooed Palmer" DELAY: Davis can't join ALP until 2015 Mr Moorhead, currently assistant secretary, is from the Left faction, which recently achieved the rare feat of securing more than half the delegate positions at the party's annual conference. The faction flexed its muscle at the conference by pushing through a new model for electing the state Labor leader. Many party figures were appalled at the Left's action which handed a significant say over picking the alternative premier to a select group of union bosses. The Courier-Mail can reveal Mr Chisholm will formally advise the party's administration committee today that he is resigning from the post he has held for six years. Party insiders believe Mr Chisholm will replace fellow Right faction member Joe Ludwig, the son of party powerbroker Bill Ludwig, who has been a senator for 15 years and faces re-election in 2016. If he assumes a senate seat, Mr Chisholm would follow other Labor state secretaries who have made the switch, including Mark Arbib and Sam Dastyari. In his resignation letter to state president Dick Williams, Mr Chisholm revealed he would continue on in a newly created role as Labor's campaign manager. "It is clear that, with Annastacia Palaszczuk as leader of the party, there is enormous opportunity at the next State election to make significant inroads to the massive majority this arrogant Newman Government has," he wrote in the letter obtained last night by The Courier-Mail. The party needs to seize this opportunity and I am confident a change in the administrative arrangements within the party will enable us to do just that. Mr Chisholm said the party faced three elections in the next two years and significant travel would be required to develop campaigns to reclaim regional Queensland seats. Former federal treasurer Wayne Swan filled a similar campaign director's role during Labor's historic victory in 1989. Mr Chisholm, who was compared to former prime minister Kevin Rudd earlier in his career, knocked back Labor's national secretary role in 2011 to focus on Queensland. Tony Abbott is about to host the world's leaders at Brisbane's G20 Conference, but does he have the diplomatic skills to make the most of the opportunity? Originally published as Backroom shakeup hits Labor Party