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ALP and policy
The ALP predates both the British Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation.
It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.
Labor leader Arthur Calwell bitterly opposed Australia's part in the war and promised that Australian troops would be brought home if Labor won office, and opposition to overseas service by Australian conscripts had long been part of ALP policy.
An incident in which Calwell was photographed standing outside a South Canberra hotel while the ALP Federal Executive ( dubbed by Menzies the " 36 faceless men ") was determining policy also contributed to the 1963 victory.
She soon emerged as a vocal critic of the Burke government's policy of mandatory sentencing, and began preparing the ALP for the election, which was then two years away.
He says he will argue for environmental causes inside the Labor Party, but will observe the decisions of the ALP caucus, including accepting any decision to change Labor's " no new uranium mines " policy.
After this, however, Menzies was able to exploit divisions in the ALP over foreign policy and state aid for Catholic schools to recover his position.
Various ideological beliefs were factionalised under reforms to the ALP under Gough Whitlam, resulting in what is now known as the Socialist Left who tend to favour a more interventionist economic policy, more authoritative top-down controls and some socially progressive ideals, and Labor Right, the now dominant faction that is pro-business, more economically liberal and focuses to a lesser extent on social issues.
As China is Australia ’ s biggest trading partner, ALP policy was pro-communist.
On 1 June the ALP State Electoral Council condemned Ngo and Lalich, stating that if they continued to breach ALP policy regarding China, they would both be expelled.
The underlining criticism of the dominance of the Right in the ALP is that, while incorporating a Realpolitik philosophy, it has led to the erosion of its traditional support to the Greens, particularly on some serious issues of policy, such as Economic Management, Immigration & Refugees, Tax Policy, Industrial Relations, National Security and gay marriage.
In it, Latham again criticised the ALP, writing that " for all the heightened rhetoric, for the seemingly endless creation of summits, committees and policy review processes, the lasting impression from the Rudd years is one of emptiness ".
But with over 90 % of some television polls supporting the government's stance, the leader of the ALP Kim Beazley chose to silence the majority and agree to the tougher policy — though it ended up opposing certain elements of proposed legislation, which the Liberal Party blasted as " weak on border security ".
Such activists were disappointed that the Australian Labor Party government of Bob Hawke, elected in 1983, had not taken a stronger stance against the policies of the U. S., and also that Hawke had overturned a long-standing ALP policy not to mine uranium, and had allowed mining in South Australia at Roxby Downs, which has since become one of the largest uranium mines in the world.
In October, during his policy speech for the 1969 federal elections, Opposition leader Gough Whitlam declared that, if elected, the ALP would make sure that all Australian troops in Vietnam would be home ' by Christmas '.
During the early 1990s the Keating ALP government enforced a policy of mandatory detention of unauthorised arrivals.
Since the 1990s when the ALP government of Paul Keating enforced a policy of mandatory detention of unauthorised arrivals, non-citizens arriving by boat without a valid visa were detained until they were either granted a visa, or deported.
Crowd at ALP policy launch in the Domain on 24 November 1975
While in this position, she had considerable influence over the creation of federal ALP policy, and campaigned for the rights of women in the party.
The Sydney Domain on 24 November 1975, at the ALP policy launch for the election precipitated by the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis.
This is particularly so in the ALP as delegations to the various State and Territory bodies that control party policy and pre-selections for State and Federal Parliaments are decided on a pro-rata basis of union members affiliated to the party.
While she often acted as a conservative voice in the assembly on many issues, advocating a particularly hard line on issues of law and order ( including mandatory sentencing ) and drug policy, this was not always the case, as she also clashed with her own party on several issues — most notably in 2003, when she crossed the floor to vote with the ALP in supporting legislation decreasing the age of consent for gay males.
Mandatory sentencing is an issue in the background ; there is some dispute as to its popularity in the Territory, and it is likely that a CLP government would reintroduce the policy, whereas it will almost definitely remain abolished under an ALP government.

ALP and before
The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.
In December 1969, the ALP under Gough Whitlam came within four seats of ending the Coalition's hold on power before winning a convincing victory in 1972.
She led the ALP to a record win at the 2005 election, before resigning as Chief Minister on 26 November 2007.
Acting quickly before all ALP parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and Kerr dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.
He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election.
Garrett revealed that he had been approached months before by senior ALP figures, including John Faulkner and Kim Beazley, and had taken this long to make up his mind.
Beazley said polling a year before the election indicated the ALP would lose " 25 – 30 seats " in the House of Representatives.
After leaving the ALP, the group became known as the Militant Socialist Organisation before becoming the Socialist Party.
Following the expected loss to the Dunstan-led ALP in the 2 June 1970 election, Hall remained Leader of the Opposition for two years before resigning from the LCL, claiming that the party had ' lost its idealism forgotten ... its purpose for existence '.
ALP declares its main purpose to be the construction of a legal state with socially orientated liberal economy, parliamentary democracy and with the clear division of powers between the branches of government, guaranteeing equality of everyone before the law.
The severity of the landslide result was all the more surprising considering that the ALP had never before been in government until 2001.
The only exception to the ALP's dominance was Milton Ballantyne, who won the seat for the Country Liberal Party in 1974 when the ALP won no seats in the Assembly, and managed to hold on despite a strong swing to the ALP in 1977, before being easily beaten by the ALP's Dan Leo in 1980.
Knowledge Nation was the education policy of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), launched just before the 2001 Federal Election at Victoria University's St Albans campus, by then ALP leader Kim Beazley.
However, the party did elect Frank McManus as a Senator for Victoria in this election, and successful ALP candidate George Cole had chosen before the election to become part of this party.

ALP and crowd
The dismissal was by then publicly known, and an angry crowd of ALP supporters had gathered, filling the steps and spilling over both into the roadway and into Parliament House itself.

ALP and Sydney
During the campaign, the Kerrs purchased a Sydney apartment, as Sir John was prepared to resign in the event that the ALP triumphed.
While Newtown and other similar areas were within the City of Sydney Council boundary, the ALP was able to control the Council for several decades.
Federally, Newtown lies partly in the electorate of Grayndler, represented by Anthony Albanese of the ALP, and partly in the electorate of Sydney, represented by Tanya Plibersek, also of the ALP.
Calwell very nearly defeated Menzies at the 1961 federal election, owing to widespread discontent at Menzies's deflationary economic policies, as well as the unprecedented ( and temporary ) endorsement of the ALP by the usually pro-Liberal Sydney Morning Herald.
North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with Wentworth, which have never been held by the ALP.
He served as an Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Macarthur, south west of Sydney, from 1984-1993 ; and, following redistribution, represented Cunningham from 1993 until his resignation in 2002.
Mr Justice Samuel J. Jacobs AO QC ; Elliot Frank Johnston QC ; author Garry Disher ; former ALP state politician Peter Duncan ( Australian politician ); Rhodes Scholar, Diplomat & Ambassador Charles Robin Ashwin ; former South Australian MLC and current Federal Senator Nick Xenophon ; former vice-captain of the Australia women's national football ( soccer ) team Moya Dodd ; former Secretary of the South Australian Trade Unions, Chris White ; poet Max Harris AO ; long-time Advertiser journalist Samela Harris and David Penberthy, current editor of The Punch and former Advertiser journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney.

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