The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

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.

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.

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.

Under a legalistic interpretation of the ALP rules, Seiffert was readmitted to the party and, together with the support of Geraghty, Premier James McGirr and Labor were able to stay in power.

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.

She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.

Martin worked hard to retain her seat, and was ultimately successful, holding Fannie Bay despite a heavy defeat for the ALP at the 1997 election.

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.

However, the ALP was coming off a particularly successful eighteen months, and Martin ran a skilled campaign.

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 ".

At the time of Cairns ' dismissal, one Senate seat was vacant, following the death on 30 June of Queensland ALP Senator Bertie Milliner.

Field was expelled from the ALP for standing against Colston, and Labor senators boycotted his swearing-in.

The ruling meant that it was possible for the ALP to gain a temporary majority in the Senate, at least until 1 July 1976.

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.

Whitlam's campaign did not believe it at first, but additional polling made it clear: the electorate was turning against the ALP.

During the campaign, the Kerrs purchased a Sydney apartment, as Sir John was prepared to resign in the event that the ALP triumphed.

ALP was founded at a meeting held at Arlington Mill, Bibury, Gloucestershire on July 23, 1966.

He resigned from the ALP and founded the Victorian Socialist Party.

Although the organization was founded primarily as a vehicle to help assure Roosevelt's victory in New York in the 1936 campaign, in that election the victorious Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Herbert Lehman, had polled over 50, 000 votes on the ALP line.

The new party was founded by popular acclamation during a public meeting at Saga kino, and Lange became the eponymous founder of Anders Lange's Party ( ALP ).

Frank Tudor, federal leader of the Australian Labor Party | ALP, was president of RFC during World War I. The first few seasons in the VFL were less than spectacular.

Subsequently, the DLP used the Alternative Vote electoral system to direct electoral preferences away from the ALP at state and federal levels, until its membership and party organisation declined sufficiently to render it electorally impotent in the early seventies.

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.

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.

Her father, Robert Corcoran, a published author, was a leading figure in the ALP split of 1955, giving evidence to the Federal Executive in favour of federal leader H. V.

The state seat of Northcote is held by Fiona Richardson, member of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and the federal seat of Batman, which covers Northcote, is held by Martin Ferguson, also from the ALP.

In the 2010 federal election SA called for a first preference vote for either the ALP, the Greens, left or socialist candidates, while putting the Liberals last.

In the 2007 federal election they called for a first preference vote for the Greens and a second preference to the ALP, again, as a protest vote against the ALP for what they saw as the party's rightward shift.

In the 2004 federal election they called for a vote for the ALP or the Greens in the lower house in the hope to remove the Liberals, and a vote for the Greens in the Senate to remove the Democrats for what they saw as their co-option by the Liberals.

Graph of Liberal ( blue ) vs ALP ( red ) two-party-preferred results at federal level, 1984-2004, and state level, 1977-2005

The suburb contains two polling booths, which collectively produced the following primary-vote results at the 2007 federal election: 53. 29 % ALP, 22. 60 % Greens, 20. 13 % Liberal, 1. 57 % Democrat, and 0. 83 % Family First.

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 '.

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.

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.

Ward lost his seat later that year to the UAP at the federal election as the Labor vote was split between Ward and the official ALP candidate.

This is evidenced by the number of past ALP prime ministers, federal ministers and state premiers who were active members of the Australian Fabians while in office.

In 1954, the federal Labor Party suffered a public split when the Leader, Dr H. V. Evatt, blamed Santamaria and his supporters in the Victorian ALP for Labor's loss of seats at the 1954 federal elections.

* Australian federal election, 1972: The Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), led by Gough Whitlam, won 67 of the 125 seats in the House of Representatives, to take control of the government from the coalition of the Liberal Party ( headed by Prime Minister William McMahon ) and the Country Party, removing the Liberals from a majority for the first time in 23 years.

The two federal electorates in the ACT are safe or fairly safe ALP seats ( AEC, 2005 ).

On the same day Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as federal ALP leader.

A member of the party's right wing, he was a strong opponent of H. V. Evatt ; and in 1955, at the time of the split in the ALP, was banned from representing the Western Australian branch at federal conferences of the party.