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  1. The Australian Labor Party is a federal party, consisting of eight branches from each state and territory. While the National Executive is responsible for national campaign strategy, each state and territory are an autonomous branch and are responsible for campaigning in their own jurisdictions for federal, state and local elections.

  2. The history of the Australian Labor Party (federally spelt Labour prior to 1912) [1] 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 (the "Tree of Knowledge") in ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bill_ShortenBill Shorten - Wikipedia

    1985–1986. William Richard Shorten (born 12 May 1967) is an Australian politician and former trade unionist serving as the current Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme since 2022. Previously, Shorten was leader of the opposition and leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2013 to 2019.

  4. www.alp.org.au › our-history › labor-party-historyLabor Party History

    The Australian Labor Party is the oldest political party in Australia, and among the oldest continuous Labour parties in the world. It is the great ‘party of initiative’ in Australian life. In 1904, Chris Watson become Australia’s first Labor Prime Minister, as well as the first national Labour head of government anywhere in the world ...

  5. 5 days ago · Biography of Kevin Rudd, Australian politician who served as leader of the Australian Labor Party (2006–10; 2013) and prime minister of Australia (2007–10; 2013). Rudd made climate change a centerpiece of his first administration and issued a formal government apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples.

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  6. Bob Hawke led Labor’s return to office in the 1983 election, and to a record four terms, with subsequent election wins in 1984, 1987 and 1990. He is the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister, and the third-longest serving Australian leader. The key focuses of the Hawke Government were globalisation, micro-economic reform and industrial ...

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  8. Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party’s rich history of more than 130 years and examine its central role in modern Australia. The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. From the prime ministerships of Watson and ...

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