An alliance had formed, primarily against the conservatives ' arch-rivals the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).

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 notes Erwin made for his planned meeting with Holt ( which he evidently provided to Reid ) indicate that he and others were worried that Holt was too susceptible to traps set for him by the ALP over issues like the VIP jets scandal, and that he had repeatedly let himself become the target of Opposition " harassment " instead of letting his ministers take the heat on controversial issues.

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.

The ALP campaign, which had concentrated on the issue of Whitlam's dismissal, did not begin to address the economy until its final days.

Even ALP parliamentarians who had been friends of Kerr broke off their relationships, feeling Kerr had betrayed the party and had ambushed Whitlam.

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.

In 1986, unions affiliated with the DLP, which had been unaffiliated since 1978, re-affiliated with the ALP.

Ironically this loyalty to the party did not prevent him from being deeply distrusted by the left-wing of the ALP, especially in his home state of Victoria, and for many years he had a stormy relationship with the state Labor Party.

The Nationalists had big victories over the ALP in the 1917 and 1919 elections.

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.

But he had many qualities that were not only desirable and attractive but are in short supply in today's ALP.

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.

Socialist Alternative, for example, contest that a sustained mass radicalisation had been born out of the anti-capitalist movement or that a significant layer of disillusioned ALP voters are willing to join a socialist electoral program.

There had been speculation that even if the ALP won the 2009 election, Bird's leadership will be challenged.

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.

The opposition Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) had a slight majority of people strongly favouring more sympathetic treatment, and was hence perceived as internally split.

He defeated Lester Bird's ALP, which had ruled Antigua and Barbuda for the previous 28 years.

In July 2005 the ALP National Secretary, Tim Gartrell, announced that the building had been sold for more than $ 30 million.

Corcoran was bitter in defeat, believing sections of the ALP had undermined him during the campaign.

It began in 1985 as a small faction within the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), when members who had lived in Britain and become members of British Militant returned to Australia to help build an Australian section of the organisation.

Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

The ALP has been the main driving force for workers ' rights in Australia, backed by Australian Trade Unions, in particular the Australian Workers Union.

Earwicker has been absent throughout the latter tale, having been summoned upstairs by ALP.

Hanlon died on 15 January 1952 and Gair, having been acting premier since the previous August, was elected by the ALP Caucus to succeed him on 17 January.

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 ).

The ALP has traditionally largely been seen as the political arm of the Bird Family.

** The recent Australian political spectrum has consisted of two major parties, the conservative Liberal Party of Australia and the democratic socialist Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) although as of late Labor has been more aligned with the third way.

Darebin Council elections have been dominated by the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).

The ALP in Northcote has been the subject of a number of academic studies.

After the 2010 Victorian State election, the Melbourne Leader reported that the SP was likely to pick up a second seat from retiring ALP Mayor Jane Garrett who had been elected to the seat of Brunswick.

North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with Wentworth, which have never been held by the ALP.

For most of its subsequent history it has been a fairly safe seat for the ALP.

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.

The seat of Grayndler has been held continuously by the ALP since it was proclaimed in 1949.

Typically for a working-class western suburb of Melbourne, it has consistently been a very safe area for the ALP.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

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.

In Immigration, Holt continued and expanded the massive immigration program initiated by his ALP predecessor, Arthur Calwell.

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.

He was also crucially aided by the crippling dissent within the Labor Party in the 1950s and especially by the ALP split of 1954.

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.

The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.

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.

In one of the largest upsets in the Territory during the 1990s, Martin went on to win the seat by 69 votes, becoming one of only two ALP MLAs in Darwin.

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.

It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the removal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr.

Kerr was widely criticised by ALP supporters for his actions, resigned early as Governor-General, and lived much of his remaining life abroad.

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

In the House, desultory debate on Fraser's censure motion ended with it being amended by the ALP majority into a condemnation of Fraser and passed.

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

Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative, follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons ' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.