Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia,serving from 1972 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),of which he was the longest-serving. He was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia,Sir John Kerr,at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by the governor-general.
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.
Robert Charles Grant Sercombe is a former Australian politician who represented the Division of Maribyrnong,Victoria for the Australian Labor Party from March 1996 until his retirement at the 2007 federal election.
Kim John Carr is an Australian former politician who served as a Senator for Victoria between 1993 and 2022. Representing the Labor Party,he was a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Philip Faulkner is an Australian former Labor Party politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1989 to 2015. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Norman Button was an Australian politician,who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments. He was notable for the Button car plan,which involved downsizing and eventually ending Australia's car industry by reducing tariffs and government protection.
Branch stacking is a term used in Australian politics to describe the act of recruiting or signing up members for a local branch of a political party for the principal purpose of influencing the outcome of internal preselection of candidates for public office,or of inordinately influencing the party's policy.
William Albert Landeryou was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the Victorian Legislative Council from 1976 to 1992,including as a minister in the Labor government of John Cain. Before entering politics he was a senior official in the Storemen and Packers' Union.
Richard Donald Marles is an Australian politician and lawyer serving as the 19th and current deputy prime minister of Australia and the Minister for Defence since May 2022. He has been the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019,having served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Corio since 2007.
Allan Clyde Holding was an Australian politician who served as Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years,and went on to become a federal minister in the Hawke government.
This article provides details on candidates who stood at the 2007 Australian federal election.
The 1983 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 5 March 1983. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election,following a double dissolution. The incumbent Coalition government which had been in power since 1975,led by Malcolm Fraser and Doug Anthony,was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labor Party led by Bob Hawke.
Samuel Herbert Cohen QC was an Australian politician and barrister. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Victoria from 1962 until his death in 1969. He was also a member of Gough Whitlam's shadow ministry from 1967. He was the first Jew elected to the Senate.
The New South Wales Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor,is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is the current ruling party in the state of New South Wales and is led by Chris Minns,who has served concurrently as premier of New South Wales since 2023.
Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013,representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. He was formerly a member of the Australian Senate from 2011 to 2013. Since 1 June 2022,Thistlethwaite has served as Assistant Minister for Defence,Veterans' Affairs and the Republic in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
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".
Jane Furneaux Garrett was an Australian politician. She was the Labor Party member for Brunswick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2010 until 2018,when she transferred to the Victorian Legislative Council representing Eastern Victoria.
The history of the Australian Labor Party has its origins in the Labour parties founded in the 1890s in the Australian colonies prior to federation. Labor tradition ascribes the founding of Queensland Labour to a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a ghost gum tree in Barcaldine,Queensland in 1891. The Balmain,New South Wales branch of the party claims to be the oldest in Australia. Labour as a parliamentary party dates from 1891 in New South Wales and South Australia,1893 in Queensland,and later in the other colonies.
Peter Alexander Walsh was an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1974 to 1993,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He held senior ministerial office in the Hawke government,serving as Minister for Resources and Energy (1983–1984) and Minister for Finance (1984–1990).
The Victorian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor,is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is currently the ruling party in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan,who has served concurrently as premier of Victoria since 2023.
