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.

In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.

Holt responded rashly, questioning the impartiality of the ABC and implying political bias on the part of journalist Mike Willesee ( whose father Don Willesee was an ALP Senator and future Whitlam government minister ) and his statement drew strong protests from both Willesee and the Australian Journalists ' Association.

In parliament on 13 March 1931, though still a member of the ALP, Lyons supported a no confidence motion against the Scullin Labor government.

However, in a shock result, the ALP achieved majority government by one seat, and Martin became the first ALP and first female Chief Minister in the history of the Northern Territory.

He led the Labor opposition in the Tasmanian Parliament until 1923 when he became Premier, leading a minority ALP government.

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.

This letter was described by author and journalist Alan Reid as " the death warrant of the Whitlam ALP government ".

She remained personally more popular than the Liberal Opposition Leader, Jeff Kennett, but the electorate would no longer accept the continued mismanagement and waste which had occurred throughout the ALP hold on government.

After the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) lost government in 1922, Lang was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs.

On 12 June, the ALP, now led by Duggan, voted to deny " supply " ( that is, the money needed to govern ) to what was left of the Gair government.

In 1974, when the Federal Labor government of Gough Whitlam was desperately attempting to gain a majority in the Senate, Whitlam tried to create an extra vacancy in Queensland for the upcoming Senate election so as to gain the ALP an increased chance of winning an extra Senate seat.

The DLP was defeated by the federal election of 1974 that saw its primary vote cut by nearly two thirds, and the entry of an ALP government.

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.

He agreed to support a minority Labor Party government, on the basis of a negotiated Accord ( signed by Michael Field and Bob Brown ) in which the Green independents agreed to support the budget but not motions of no confidence, and the ALP agreed to develop a more open parliamentary process, to consult on departmental appointments, provide a legislative research service, parity in parliamentary staffing and a reform agenda which included equal opportunities, freedom of information, national parks protection and public disclosure of bulk power contracts and royalties from mining companies.

Although opinion polls showed the ALP leading the government at various stages of the six-week campaign, the government was re-elected with an increased majority.

The ALP government and Bird himself won re-election in 1994 and 1999.

During the election the ALP pledged open government, an ombudsman to deal with citizen complaints, and new jobs, especially in tourism.

Under the watch of the ALP Government, the government of Antigua & Barbuda failed to contribute EC $ 120 million to cover recipients ' medical expenses.

His progress in the ALP was delayed by false rumours that in 1927 he had been bribed to help bring down the Lang government, repeated by Lang's Labor daily.

Paul Henderson became leader of the ALP, and retained government with another one-seat majority in 2008.

This has reduced to 74 once more with Slipper currently not voting as he has temporarily stood down from the Speaker role, which has been filled by Anna Burke ( ALP ).

Many commentators claimed he chose to resign due to the position the ALP is currently in.

In the Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria, the State Electoral district of Preston incorporates all of Preston ( and some parts of Reservoir ), and is currently represented by Robin Scott, of the ALP.

Kingsford Smith is a Labor ( ALP ) stronghold and is currently represented by ex-rock star Peter Garrett, formerly lead singer with the band Midnight Oil.

At the federal level, it is in the electoral division of Grayndler, currently held by Anthony Albanese, of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), who was last re-elected in the 2007 General Election and has been named as a member of the Cabinet in the Rudd Government as the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

Residents on the western side of Dulwich Hill are in the Electoral district of Canterbury, held by Linda Burney, also an ALP member, and currently Minister for Fair Trading.

He is currently National Secretary and Treasurer of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association ( SDA ), a Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU ) and a member of the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).

The seat is currently a very safe Australian Labor Party seat with the closest the ALP has ever come to losing it was at the 1988 by-election, where Labor candidate Rod Sawford received 55. 2 percent of the two-party vote.

The 1996 election saw the ALP lose 31 seats in the House of Representatives with a two-party-preferred result of 46. 37 %, the lowest for Labor since 1934.

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.

The Coalition scored a stunning victory over the ALP, winning many former ALP seats and sweeping back into power with ( at the time ) the largest parliamentary majority since Federation.

However, despite this the Coalition went to a record fourth win against the ALP of Pat Hills, increasing the Liberal / Country majority by four seats, and making Askin the only Premier to win four consecutive terms.

In the 1989 elections, the ruling ALP won all but two of the 17 seats.

During elections in March 1994, power passed from Vere Bird to his son, Lester Bird, but remained within the ALP which won 11 of the 17 parliamentary seats.

To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.

The ALP suffered major swings against it and both seats were lost to the Liberal Party, the first serious electoral setback for Beattie since becoming Premier.

Beazley said polling a year before the election indicated the ALP would lose " 25 – 30 seats " in the House of Representatives.

Instead the party lost a net four seats in the lower house, a swing of 0. 21 % and there was a 1. 1 % swing to the ALP in the Senate.

In the March 1994 elections, the ALP under Bird's leadership won 11 out of 17 seats even as the opposition criticized the ALP over corruption issues.

In the 1999 elections, the ALP increases their parliamentary majority by one seat, holding 12 seats.

He led the party in the March 2009 election ; although the ALP lost the election, it gained 3 seats from the UPP and Bird defeated Cort by 96 votes in the St John's Rural East constituency, where he had lost in 2004.

Since then, in a rare case in modern day Caribbean politics, he led his party to an election victory in 1984 in which the Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) won all the Antiguan seats in the Legislature.

The Martin-led ALP won 19 seats to the CLP's 4 in 2005, however Martin resigned in 2007.

In the other seats, they called for what they said was " little choice but to grit our teeth " and vote for the Labor Party ( ALP ) over the Liberals.

The result of the Queensland state election, 2012 was LNP 78 seats, with the ALP 7 seats, Katter's Australian Party 2 Seats, and Independents 2.

The casual vacancies proposal arose out of the 1975 controversy over the appointment of independent Cleaver Bunton ( New South Wales ) and anti-Whitlam Australian Labor Party member Albert Field ( Queensland ) to fill Senate seats formerly held by ALP senators.

The Coalition again suffered a massive defeat at the hands of the ALP, with the Liberal Party gaining just two additional seats, lifting its representation to five.

Its express aim was to examine possible electoral strategy for the left and to bring down the Labor government and to target ALP candidates in marginal seats.