The Australian Labor Party (ALP),also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party,is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics,along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party has been in government since the 2022 federal election,and with political branches active in all the Australian states and territories,they currently hold government in New South Wales,South Australia,Victoria,Western Australia,and the Australian Capital Territory. As of 2024,Queensland,Tasmania and Northern Territory are the only states or territories where Labor currently forms the opposition. It is the oldest continuous political party in Australian history,having been established on 8 May 1901 at Parliament House,Melbourne;the meeting place of the first Federal Parliament.
Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure,Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
The Division of Swan is an Australian electoral division located in Western Australia.
The Division of Bennelong is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Woollarawarre Bennelong,an Aboriginal man befriended by the first Governor of New South Wales,Arthur Phillip. The seat is represented by Jerome Laxale since the 2022 Australian federal election.
The Division of Fowler is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Maxine Margaret McKew is an Australian former Labor politician and journalist;she was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure,Transport,Regional Development and Local Government in the First Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry.
Belinda Jane Neal is an Australian politician who currently serves as a councillor for Gosford West Ward on Central Coast Council since 2024.
Jason Dean Clare is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Education since 1 June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Blaxland in Western Sydney since 2007.
Julie Maree Collins is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Tasmanian seat of Franklin since the 2007 federal election. She held ministerial positions in the Gillard and Rudd governments,and is Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Small Business in the Albanese ministry.
Anne Elizabeth Urquhart is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for Tasmania since 2011. She was a senior official with the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) prior to entering politics. She is the Labor candidate for Braddon at the 2025 federal election.
Jennifer Ryll McAllister is an Australian politician. She has been a Senator for New South Wales since 2015 and previously served as the party's national president from 2011 to 2015. She is from the Socialist Left faction of the Labor Party. She is the Minister for Emergency Management and the Minister for Cities in the Albanese ministry.
Lucy Elizabeth Wicks is an Australian former politician. She was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022,representing the Division of Robertson in New South Wales. She lost her seat to the Australian Labor Party candidate Gordon Reid at the 2022 federal election.
Terri Megan Butler is an Australian public servant and former politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2014 to 2022,representing the seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She worked as an industrial lawyer prior to entering parliament and in 2024 was appointed as a deputy president of the Fair Work Commission.
Peter Khalil is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election,representing the Victorian seat of Wills.
Dr Fiona Barbouttis Martin is an Australian psychologist and former politician who served as the Member for Reid from 2019,becoming the first woman to represent the seat. She was defeated for re-election in 2022 by Labor's Sally Sitou.
Jason Yat-Sen Li is an Australian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 2022 Strathfield state by-election.
Jana Naretha Anne Stewart is an Australian politician and former public servant. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was appointed as a Senator for Victoria in April 2022,filling the vacancy caused by the death of Kimberley Kitching.
Francesco Giuseppe Carbone is an Australian politician. He has served as mayor of Fairfield in New South Wales since 2012.
Mary Judith Jacinta Doyle is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Parliament of Australia representing the Federal Division of Aston since a by-election on 1 April 2023,held to replace former Liberal member Alan Tudge. Doyle is the first woman to hold the seat of Aston since its creation in 1984.
