The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 ALP split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist),and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962,the Queensland Labor Party,a breakaway party of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party,became the Queensland branch of the DLP.
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria,usually known as B. A. Santamaria or Bob Santamaria and sometimes writing under the pseudonym John Williams,was an Australian Roman Catholic anti-communist political activist and journalist. He was a guiding influence in the founding of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP),the party that split from the Labor Party (ALP) in the 1950s.
John Cain was an Australian politician,who became the 34th premier of Victoria,and was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is the only premier of Victoria to date whose son has also served as premier.
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan,KCMG was an Australian politician who served as the 33rd premier of Victoria from 1935 to 1943 and from 1943 to 1945 and as the third deputy premier of Victoria for five days in March 1935. A member of the Country Party,now the National Party,his term as premier was the second-longest in the state's history and the longest of any third-party premier. He was the first person to hold the office of premier in its own right,and not an additional duty taken up by the Treasurer,Attorney-General or Chief Secretary.
Robert Einar Stensholt is a former Australian Labor Party politician who represented the Victorian state seat of Burwood in the Victorian Legislative Assembly of the state's parliament.
The 1963 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 30 November 1963. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election. The incumbent Liberal–Country coalition government,led by Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies,won an increased majority over the opposition Labor Party,led by Arthur Calwell. This was the only time that a Federal Government won a seventh consecutive term in office.
Allan Duncan Fraser was an Australian politician and journalist. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1943 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1972,representing the Division of Eden-Monaro for the Labor Party.
Robert Bruce Whan was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represented the Division of Eden-Monaro in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975. He worked in the wool industry before entering politics.
Edward Findley was an Australian politician and publisher. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1904 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1929,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was also a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1901.
John William Bourchier,CBE was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1983,representing the Victorian seat of Bendigo. He served as government whip in the Fraser government from 1975 to 1983.
Maxwell Wilkinson Oldmeadow was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and sat in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975,representing the Victorian seat of Holt. He was a schoolteacher before entering parliament and a member of the Dandenong City Council from 1970 to 1973.
John Mead Hallett was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Country Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1974,representing the Western Australian seat of Canning. He also served as state president of the Country Party from 1962 to 1963.
Frank McLeod Kirwan was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1972,representing the Western Australian seat of Forrest. Outside of politics he was an electrical fitter,trade union official and Methodist minister.
Charles Harry Webb was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1954 to 1958 and from 1961 to 1972,representing Western Australian seats. He later served as administrator of Christmas Island from 1974 to 1975.
Adrian Frank Bennett was an Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975,holding the Western Australian seat of Swan for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In later life he was associated with the LaRouche movement and helped establish the Curtin Labor Alliance.
Christopher Gordon Miles is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1998,representing the Tasmanian seat of Braddon. He served as parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister John Howard and was a prominent social conservative within the Liberal Party,chairing the conservative Lyons Forum ginger group. Prior to entering politics,he worked as a schoolteacher.
William Peter Barry was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Carlton from July 1932 until April 1955. Barry was a member of the Labor Party until March 1955,when he was expelled from the party as part of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. He became,with Les Coleman in the Victorian Legislative Council,joint leader of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist),a party that in 1957 became the Democratic Labor Party.
The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 was a split within the Australian Labor Party along ethnocultural lines and about the position towards communism. Key players in the split were the federal opposition leader H. V. "Doc" Evatt and B. A. Santamaria,the dominant force behind the "Catholic Social Studies Movement" or "the Movement".
Cyril James Kennedy is a former Australian politician.
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1886 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1907. He also served as mayor of Bendigo from 1883 to 1884.
