LABOR party membership is plummeting and people don't see a reason to join the party, Labor elder John Faulkner says.
"Party membership is not only declining in number but it is ageing," Mr Faulkner, who was part of a Whitlam Institute panel in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta, said.
"The party is finding it very, very difficult to attract new members."
He said Labor needed to give the existing members a reason to stay and those considering joining a reason to join.
"I don't think those reasons exist at the moment," he said.
"They can exist.
"I would argue the way to address the problem as far as Labor is concerned is give people a real say in their political party.
"If membership can be made meaningful I believe it would make a difference."
Mr Faulkner also said the disgraced former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald - both currently before the corruption watchdog - didn't represent the party.
"They are a small minority in a very big majority of decent, hardworking people," Mr Faulkner said.
"But this does not diminish the gravity of their failure to fulfil their responsibility to represent the interests and values of the Labor movement let lane their responsibilities to the people of NSW."
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