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Labor and formed
:* Labor – Greens coalitions formed in 1989 and 2010.
An alliance had formed, primarily against the conservatives ' arch-rivals the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).
New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).
" One of the significant national craft unions to be formed during this time was the National Labor Union ( NLU ).
Two months into his imprisonment, the first Congress of the newly formed Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ) was held, and from then on Trotsky considered himself a member of the party.
However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.
The Australian Labor Party, the first social democratic labour party in the world, was formed in 1891.
Labor unions formed an important part of this network.
A number of independent unions, which emerged during 1992, among them the Independent Union of Miners of Ukraine, have formed the Consultative Council of Free Labor Unions.
The UAP was formed in 1931 by Labor dissidents and a conservative coalition as a response to the more radical economic proposals of Labor Party members to deal with the Great Depression in Australia.
On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.
The new Populist Party, formed by groups from the Grange, the Farmers ' Alliances, and the Knights of Labor, polled more than a million votes, but Cleveland won easily.
In Australia, the Labour and Socialist movements were gaining traction and the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) was formed in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891 by striking pastoral workers.
From 1990, Peres led the opposition in the Knesset, until, in early 1992, he was defeated in the first primary elections of the new Israeli Labor Party ( which had been formed by the consolidation of the Alignment into a single unitary party ) by Yitzhak Rabin, whom he had replaced fifteen years earlier.
It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Billy Hughes.
Hughes and his followers formed a minority Government ( briefly using the title " National Labor "), with support from Cook and his Commonwealth Liberal Party.
Accompanied by another senior minister in the Scullin government, James Fenton, and three other right-wing Labor MPs, he formed the " All for Australia League " and crossed the floor to sit on the opposition benches.
Gough Whitlam's Labor government was elected in 1972 after 23 years of rule by a coalition formed by the Liberal and Country parties.
In April 1982 Cain defeated the Liberals and formed the first Labor government in Victoria for 27 years since the one led by his father.

Labor and South
In the state and territory parliaments, Labor governs in South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
In 1947, Labor appointed a second Australian Governor-General, William McKell, who was in office as the Labor Premier of New South Wales.
The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members, and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies, but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South.
The Knights of Labor in the South.
In the United States, the minimum wage promulgated by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was intentionally set at a high, national level to render low-technology, low-wage factories in the South obsolete.
In South Australia, for the first time in the Nationals ' history, in 2002 the single Nationals member in the House of Assembly entered the Rann Labor Government as a Minister forming an informal coalition between the two parties.
The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.
Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election as the Labor member for Blaxland in New South Wales.
He also developed a friendship and discussed politics with former New South Wales Labor premier Jack Lang, then in his 90s.
The standing of Heffron's government suffered when the electors rejected its proposal to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council at a referendum in April 1961, being the first time Labor had lost a state electoral poll in 20 years.
South Australia's Governor is Kevin Scarce and its Premier is Jay Weatherill of the Australian Labor Party.
In March, at about the same time as Lyons led his group of defectors from the right of the Labor Party across the floor, 5 left-wing NSW Labor MPs, supporters of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, also split from the official Labor Party over the government's economic policies ( for Lyons they had been too radical, for the Langites they were not radical enough ), forming a " Lang Labor " group on the cross-benches and costing the government its majority in the House of Representatives.
In 1916, New South Wales Premier William Holman was expelled from the Australian Labor Party for supporting conscription.
In 1932 the New South Wales Labor Premier, Jack Lang, refused to pay moneys owing to the Federal government, which froze the state's bank accounts, causing Lang to order that payments to the state government be only in cash.
Under proportional representation, Labor could win three of the five New South Wales seats, but if Murphy's seat was also contested, it was most unlikely to win four out of six.
* John Bannon, Labor Premier of South Australia, 1982 – 1992
* John Gunn, Labor Premier of South Australia, 1924 – 26
* When Hurricane Frances hit South Florida on Labor Day weekend ( over 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County ), 9, 800 Miami-Dade applicants were approved by FEMA for $ 21 million in storm claims for new furniture ; clothes ; thousands of new televisions, microwaves and refrigerators ; cars ; dental bills ; and a funeral even though the Medical Examiner recorded no deaths from Frances.
In August 1919, he became Private Secretary and speech writer to the politician John Storey, a prominent member of the centre-left Australian Labor Party that was then in opposition to the Nationalist government in the state of New South Wales.

Labor and Australia's
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.
The 1965 campaign against the Labor Government ( lead since April 1964 by Jack Renshaw ), a government widely perceived to be tired and devoid of ideas, was notable for being one of Australia's first " presidential-style " campaigns, with Askin being the major focus of campaigning and a main theme of " With Askin You'll Get Action ".
Medibank was the name given to Australia's system of universal health insurance when it was first created by Gough Whitlam's Australian Labor Party government in 1975.
Serving a collective total of four years and ten months, Fisher is second to Bob Hawke as Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister.
Australia's Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, had developed a close working relationship with the Indonesian leader, and also followed events with concern.
The Protectionist Party ended up splitting, with the more liberal Protectionists, such as Isaac Isaacs and H. B. Higgins, supporting Labor while Deakin and his supporters merged with the Anti-Socialist Party to become the Commonwealth Liberal Party, who would form another minority government, before Fisher and Labor achieved Australia's first federal majority government, and the first Senate majority, at the 1910 election.
South Australia's debt achieved a AAA rating under the Rann Labor government, prompting Business SA chief executive Peter Vaughan to praise Labor's economic management.
On 2 August he successfully moved a vote of no-confidence against Premier Walter James, and was asked to form Western Australia's first Labor government.
Before the 2010 federal election, Labor issued a statement recognising the legitimacy of the shooting sports and asserting that our firearms legislation is to protect both " the freedom of Australia's law-abiding sporting shooters and of the wider community.
In November 2007, the Australian Labor Party won government and Julia Gillard became Australia's first female, and first foreign-born, Deputy Prime Minister.
In September 2009, the Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Nelson as the next Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg as well as Australia's Special Representative at the World Health Organisation and NATO.
The current Labor government, led by Julia Gillard, and previously Kevin Rudd, has not sought to re-establish compulsory arbitration, instead seeking to streamline and modernize Australia's industrial relations regime through other means.
His other major works are Australia's Foreign Relations ( with Bruce Grant, Melbourne University Press 1991, 2nd ed 1995 ), Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s ( Allen & Unwin, 1993 ), Australia ’ s Constitution ( with John McMillan and Haddon Storey, Allen & Unwin, 1983 ) and the edited collection, Labor and the Constitution, 1972-1975 ( Heinemann, 1977 ).
In 1983 the next Australian Labor Party Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, appointed him as Australia's Permanent Representative on Disarmament to the United Nations in Geneva.
Dowding was elected as a member of Western Australia's Legislative Council for the Australian Labor Party from 1979 to 1986 representing the North Province and, in 1986, was elected as the member for Maylands in the Legislative Assembly.
After the Tampa affair, and the declaration of the War on Terrorism, in 2001 Kim Beazley announced that the Australian Labor Party, if in government, would establish an Australian Coast Guard " responsible for conducting Australia's coastal surveillance and meeting Australia's maritime protection needs, including in relation to illegal immigration, drugs, fisheries, and quarantine-related issues ".
William Guthrie Spence ( 7 August 1846 – 13 December 1926 ), Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.

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