The Australian Labor Party (ALP),also simply known as Labor,is the major centre-left political party in Australia,one of two major parties in Australian politics,along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the federal government since being elected in the 2022 election. The ALP is a federal party,with political branches in each state and territory. They are currently in government in Victoria,Queensland,Western Australia,South Australia,the Australian Capital Territory,and the Northern Territory. They are currently in opposition in New South Wales and Tasmania. It is the oldest political party in Australia,being established on 8 May 1901 at Parliament House,Melbourne,the meeting place of the first federal Parliament.
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP),formerly the Democratic Labor Party,is an Australian political party. It broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split,originally under the name 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.
The Labor Left,also known as the Socialist Left and Progressive Left,is an organised left-wing faction of the Australian Labor Party. It competes with the more economically liberal Labor Right faction.
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.
Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996,when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics,and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.
Australian Young Labor,also known as the Young Labor Movement or simply Young Labor,is the youth wing of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) representing all ALP members aged between 15 to 26. The organisation operates as a federation with independently functioning branches in all Australian states and territories which serve under the relevant state or territory branch of the federal Labor Party,often coming together during national conferences and federal elections. Young Labor is the oldest continuously operating youth wing of any political party in Australian history,being founded in 1926.
Carol Louise Brown,an Australian politician,has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Tasmania since 25 August 2005.
The Australian Labor Party National Executive is an internal executive body of the Australian Labor Party charged with directly overseeing the general organisation and strategy of the party. Twenty members of the National Executive are elected by the party's National Conference,which is the highest representative body of the party's state and territory branches. The other eight members are party ex-officio members. Members on the Executive may be officials of trade unions affiliated to the party,members of federal or state Parliaments,or rank-and-file ALP members. The ex-officio members are the National President,the National Secretary and two National Vice-Presidents,and the Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party,but of these only the party Leader has a vote.
Donald Edward Farrell is an Australian politician and former trade unionist. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State in the Albanese government since 2022. He has served as a Senator for South Australia since 2016,after a previous term from 2008 to 2014.
Terrence Gordon Aulich is a former Australian Labor Party politician who represented the Division of Wilmot in the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1976–82) and the state of Tasmania in the Federal Senate (1984–93).
Bertie ("Bert") Richard Milliner was an Australian trade unionist,politician and Senator,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He would have been a minor figure in Australia's political history but for the events that followed his sudden death. Those circumstances contributed to the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis,which culminated in the dismissal of the Prime Minister,Gough Whitlam,by the Governor-General,Sir John Kerr.
William Edward Aylett was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1938 to 1965,representing the Labor Party (ALP). He worked as a miner,mail contractor,and farmer before entering politics. He was first elected to the Senate at the age of 36 and won re-election on five further occasions.
Murray Patrick Watt is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a Senator for Queensland since the 2016 federal election. He previously served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 2009 to 2012.
Alexander McEachian Gallacher was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2011 until his death in 2021. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was a senior official in the Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU) before entering parliament.
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.
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. In August 2018 she was appointed Shadow Assistant Minister for Families and Communities.
Susan Lines is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2013,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She is the current President of the Australian Senate,having previously been Deputy President of the Senate from 2016. Before entering politics she was the assistant national secretary of United Voice.
Anthony David Chisholm is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016. He was appointed an assistant minister in the Albanese government following the party's victory at the 2022 federal election. He previously served as the party's state secretary from 2008 to 2014.
Dugald Milton Dick is an Australian politician who currently serves as the 32nd Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Queensland seat of Oxley in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election. He previously served on the Brisbane City Council (2008–2016) and as ALP state secretary (2004–2008). He is the brother of Queensland state government minister Cameron Dick.
