Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, often also referred to as Labor )) is the oldest political party of Australia. It is a social democratic party that officially linked with the trade unions. They won the Australian Federal parliamentary elections in 2010 and delivered since then also: the new Prime Minister Julia Gillard in June 2013 interim (succeeded by Kevin Rudd).



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == There is no exact date on which the ALP would be founded workers ' movements, because they come from different regions of Australia. Such movements existed in New South Wales and Queensland already from about 1890. The party was seriously and officially active from 1891 in New South Wales, from 1893 in Queensland, and later in the rest of the country. Formed In 1899 Anderson Dawson in Queensland for the first time in the world a minority Government of the labour party. This Government has one week sustained.
 * 2 Ideology
 * 3 party structure
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 external links
 * 6 References

The Federal Parliamentary Labor Party "had its first meeting on 8 may 1901 in the Parliament building in Melbourne. This is now seen as the date on which the party was founded.

The ALP during the early years an explosive growth in the number of members. The first nationwide (minority) Government was formed in 1904, after which in 1910 for the first time won a majority in Parliament.

Starting from the 1970s, the party has renounced her socialist slant and it became a social democratic party. In the 1980s the party was even responsible for things like privatizing some government services and the deregulation of many hitherto tightly regulated industries. This happened before that just by conservative parties.

From the conception up to the fifties were the ALP and its trade unions the biggest proponents of the White Australia Policy, which banned all non-European immigration in Australia. This policy stemmed from 19th-century theories about "racial purity" and partly from the fear of competition on the labour market. In practice, the party was against any form of immigration. This continued until after the Second World War, when the Government a large immigration project started. Nowadays the party strongly support multiculturalism, although some in the party are still against large numbers of immigrants times. ==Ideology[ Edit] == Current Prime Minister and party leader Kevin Rudd for Labor.The policy of the Australian Labor Party is determined by the Labor's National Conference every three years. The ALP policy around election time is determined by the cabinet (if the party is the ruling party at that time) or by the Shadow Cabinet (if they sit in the opposition).

The ALP is generally seen as a social democratic party, but in reality, the party has no official ideology. The party was founded by trade unionists, and is basically still under their direction. The party policy is always to some extent dominated by the interests of the trade unions. Views about the history you see therefore how the ALP, for example, has called for both postal prices as-cuts, for White Australia Policy and multiculturalism, nationalisation and privatisation, for and for isolationism and internationalism.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although it never has been a Socialist Party, there are always a number of convinced Socialists have been active within the ALP. After the first world war and the Russian revolution of 1917, support for socialism grew in trade unions, and on the annual trade union consultation in 1921, it was adopted a proposal to the "socializing industry, production, distribution and trade." This led to the ALP in 1922 signed a similar "Socialist objective". This particular policy over many years.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the policy of Labor during her reign was often called neo-liberal 1983-1996 (for example, privatisation and spacious tariff reductions), turning since 1996 against the policy of the current Government of John Howard. It tends rather back to the original ALP-positions on the basis of fairness and equality in terms of economy, education, health care and industry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since 2004, the ALP focused primarily against Howards labour market deregulation and the reduction of the rights of trade unions. The party has even sworn at the 2007 electionsthat the rollback would be their most important electoral laws Howards industry.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">And after winning those elections made Labor right where that promise by signing the Kyoto protocol<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] . ==Party Structure<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The ALP is a democratic, federal party, with both members and attached to trade unions. They mutually decide on the policy of the party and they choose committees and candidates for public office. The vast majority of Australian trade unions is a member of the ALP, so that they contribute to a large extent on the revenue of it. Loose members also pay membership fees, but with them is that determined depending on their own income.There are approximately 50,000 individual members, although this number can change depending on whether or not quite the party elections.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The party participated in the elections as doing both to state elections and some local elections. Candidates at all levels serve a declaration in which they swear that they always will vote according to the party position.Sometimes they are also believed to be a part of their earnings to the Tory. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Although in the Australian-English is spelled the word labour with the suffix "-our", the ALP in 1912 elected to the end "-or" to use.
 * Robert (Bob) Hawke, former Prime Minister on behalf of the ALP, the Australian beer drinkingrecord. In 1955 drank beer at 2.5 pints in 11 seconds in Oxford, England.