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Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is Australia’s oldest political party.

It was formed in the 1890s and was represented in the first Federal Parliament elected in 1901. The ALP is the only party to have survived since that time.

The party has experienced 3 traumatic splits (1917, 1931 and 1955) which debilitated it and kept it out of office for many years. In the past 100 years, the ALP has governed at the Federal level for only 33 years. Thirteen of those years were between 1983 and 1996 under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

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ALP policies are determined at State and National Conferences. The National Conference, now held once every parliamentary term, is the supreme policy-making body of the party. Its decisions are theoretically binding on the elected ALP members of parliament.

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  • Jimbo

    Tony Abbott needs a new Slogan …..” Tony Abbot the Rabbit”

  • max

    It’s high time Labor politicians learnt how to promote themselves and their history. Today Wayne Swan’s response to Wyatt Roy was poor and unnecessary. Referring to Keating’s 3 surpluses which meant cuts in real terms and making comparisons to the Howard period in terms of increases in spending or that they were the highest taxing biggest spending government in history would have been a good starting point. The ALP should be trumpeting their history, because it’s a good story to tell and your supporters need the reassurance and confidence such an approach results in. The opposition is fond of talking up their period in government why aren’t you?

  • Pinto Telemaro

    Dear Ministers

    Please leave the hipocrisy in your ranks. The criticism of the banners yesterday’s demo asking Tony Abbott to apologize for is as good as asking the unions not to break the front glass of the Parliament.
    Or the GETUP people paid by you will stop the bile?. Or what a farce last nights sitting when Mr Albanese had to run and threaten the independents not to lose the Speaker. Wow. Not talking about tthe concentrated mocking of Mr Howard, the Mardi Gras moving body to the back side of Bush and sso many other in excusable statements and placards by your paid rent a crowd. So would you also tell your bosom body Mr Bob Brown to apologize together with Ms Gillard for the misleading and false statments we the Austrlian people had to listen and will yet to listen to. And the sudden appearane of 10000 signature for Mr Combet. Good show but we do not believ it. You had even Labor members at the rally and number of Greenies too. They are all rat bags or right wing extremists.
    But whenever you have a demo, the renta crowd, the Socilaist Alliance,the Woman Rights Movement, the Union heavy weights, all the former Labor Prime Ministers and so on with nasty placards of your opposition. So when the baby cannot get his selected dummy will cry.
    So do not dry faul, but look into your owm faults maybe there si an apology to the Australian people amd to some of your people too.

  • Archiecq

    If you are one of the 8 out of 10 people who voted for labor or liberal, democrat or republican, look in the mirror, you are the sort of person who would give a knife to a person who you previously saw stab a child, that is the sort of person you are, you saw these parties bomb children of non aggressive countries more than once, and yet you personally gave them the power by your vote to do it again. At least an idiot that gave the knife could claim they thought it wouldn’t happen again, this has occurred multiple times so you do not have that claim.
    So 8 out of ten will be reading this saying something to justify their actions and support of the two primary parties in each of these countries, If you believe in god whoever you hold that to be, or Karma then at the end of your life or perhaps as an earthquake is happening or a tsunami is coming, then wouldn’t one single question be suitable to determine your fate? Did you ever do anything that caused the death of a child? A Rather simple question regarding the value of your life or soul or whatever you hold to be your fate or destiny or afterlife. We cannot undo what we have done in the past, but we can change our lives and run our businesses to show that we changed at the point we became aware, not simply to not act in such a manner again but to fight against others who still do and perhaps gain some grace for past actions, to expect to simply desist and sit quietly is to expect to commit a crime and expect no punishment if you promise not to do it again. You must stand and fight these Nazis, you must copy and send this around your neighborhood letterboxes and email. Here is your chance to change the world; you will know the Nazis by who takes their voting slips at the polls.

  • Swan

    We Want Kevin Rudd Back
    What do we need to do..
    I have been a ALP voter all my life and as well as my family we are at the point of breaking..
    please help

    • Dan

      yeah get ruddy back