Australian Labor Party

{{Short description|Australian political party}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox political party | name = Australian Labor Party | logo_size = 200px | colorcode = {{party color|Australian Labor Party}} | logo = ALP logo 2017.svg | abbreviation = ALP | slogan = ''Building Australia's Future'' | leader1_title = Leader | leader1_name = Anthony Albanese | leader2_title = Deputy Leader | leader2_name = Richard Marles | leader3_title = Senate Leader | leader3_name = Penny Wong | leader4_title = National President | leader4_name = Wayne Swan<ref>{{cite web |title=National Executive |url=https://www.alp.org.au/about/national-executive/ |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=30 September 2021 |archive-date=28 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928144722/https://www.alp.org.au/about/national-executive/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | leader5_title = National Secretary | leader5_name = Paul Erickson | foundation = {{ubl|'''Oldest branches:'''<br />{{start date and age|1891}}|'''Federal Caucus:'''<br />{{start date and age|df=y|1901|05|08|br=y}}}} | headquarters = 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Barton, Australian Capital Territory | womens_wing = Labor Women's Network | youth_wing = Australian Young Labor | wing2_title = Indigenous wing | wing2 = Aboriginal Labor Network<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alp.org.au/media/3572/alp-national-constitution-adopted-19-august-2023.pdf|title=ALP national Constitution 2024|publisher=Australian Labor Party|access-date=23 November 2024|archive-date=10 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241110044643/https://www.alp.org.au/media/3572/alp-national-constitution-adopted-19-august-2023.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> | wing3_title = Overseas wing | wing3 = ALP Abroad<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alpabroad.org/|title=ALP Abroad|website=alpabroad.org|access-date=21 September 2023|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922140834/https://alpabroad.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> | wing4_title = Investment arm | wing4 = John Curtin House | blank1_title = Governing body | blank1 = ALP National Executive | blank2_title = Party conference | blank2 = ALP National Conference | blank3_title = Parliamentary party | blank3 = ALP Caucus | blank4_title = Party branches | blank4 = {{hlist|ACT|NSW|NT|Qld|SA|Tas|Vic|WA}} | affiliation2_title = Factions | affiliation2 = Labor Left<br>Labor Right | think_tank = Chifley Research Centre | membership = {{Increase}} 60,085<ref>{{cite web |last1=Davies |first1=Anne |title=Party hardly: why Australia's big political parties are struggling to compete with grassroots campaigns |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/13/party-hardly-why-australias-big-political-parties-are-struggling-to-compete-with-grassroots-campaigns?CMP=soc_567 |website=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2020 |language=en |date=13 December 2020 |archive-date=11 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011171753/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/13/party-hardly-why-australias-big-political-parties-are-struggling-to-compete-with-grassroots-campaigns?CMP=soc_567 |url-status=live }}</ref> | membership_year = 2020 | ideology = <!-- It is important to seek and gain broad consensus on the article talk page before changing this --> Social democracy<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McAllister |first=Ian |date=February 1991 |title=Party Adaptation and Factionalism within the Australian Party System |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111444 |journal=American Journal of Political Science |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=206–227 |doi=10.2307/2111444 |jstor=2111444 |access-date=4 September 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> | position = <!-- It is important to seek and gain broad consensus on the article talk page before changing this --> Centre-left | national = | regional = Network of Social Democracy in Asia | international = {{Plainlist| * Progressive Alliance * Socialist International (1966–2014) }} | colours = {{color box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=darkgray}} Red | seats1_title = House of Representatives | seats1 = {{composition bar|94|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = {{composition bar|30|76|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | seats3_title = State/territory governments | seats3 = {{composition bar|5|8|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | seats4 = {{composition bar|267|465|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | seats4_title = State/territory lower houses | seats5 = {{composition bar|65|156|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | seats5_title = State upper houses | website = {{URL|https://alp.org.au|alp.org.au}} | country = Australia | wing1 = Rainbow Labor<ref name="ALPOrganisationalPolices">{{cite web |title=Organisational Polices |url=https://www.alp.org.au/media/3571/alp-organisational-policies-adopted-19-august-2023.pdf |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=2 December 2024 |ref=Yes}}</ref> | wing1_title = LGBT+ wing }} The '''Australian Labor Party''' ('''ALP''') is the major social democratic political party in Australia. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum, it is the oldest active party in the country, having been founded in 1891. It is one of the two major parties in Australian politics, its main rival being the Liberal–National Coalition. It has been the ruling party at the federal level since the 2022 federal election, and currently forms government in five of the eight states and territories.

The Labor Party was founded in 1891, being descended from the labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies during the emerging labour movement. After its founding, it began contesting colonial elections, and federal elections after Australian federation, beginning with the 1901 federal election. In 1904, it briefly formed what is considered the world's first labour party government and the world's first social democratic or democratic socialist government at a national level.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rhodes |first=Campbell |url=https://moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |title=A perfect picture of the statesman: John Christian Watson |publisher=Museum of Australian Democracy |date=27 April 1904 |access-date=19 September 2017 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162747/https://moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |url-status=live }}</ref> At the 1910 federal election, Labor became the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian parliament. In every election since 1910, Labor has either served as the governing party or the opposition.

The Labor Party is often called the party of unions due to its close ties to the labour movement in Australia and historical founding by trade unions, with the majority of Australian trade unions being affiliated with the Labor Party. The party's structure allocates 50% of delegate representation at state and national conferences to affiliated unions, with the remaining 50% to rank-and-file party members.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/953976806 |title=Left-of-centre parties and trade unions in the twenty-first century |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-879047-1 |editor-last=Allern |editor-first=Elin Haugsgjerd |edition=1st |location=Oxford |pages=58 |oclc=953976806 |editor-last2=Bale |editor-first2=Tim}}</ref> At the federal and state/colony level, the Australian Labor Party predates both the British and New Zealand Labour parties in formation, winning government, and policy implementation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianpolitics.com/political-parties/alp|title=Australian Labor Party|website=AustralianPolitics.com|date=6 October 2013|access-date=11 December 2014|archive-date=10 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110050258/http://australianpolitics.com/political-parties/alp|url-status=live}}</ref> Internationally, the ALP is a member of the Progressive Alliance, a network of progressive, democratic socialist and social democratic parties,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://progressive-alliance.info/participants/ |title = Participants |publisher=Progressive Alliance |access-date = 11 June 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150302142054/http://progressive-alliance.info/participants/ |archive-date=2 March 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> having previously been a member of the Socialist International.{{TOC limit|3}}

== History == {{main|History of the Australian Labor Party}}

=== Name and spelling === In standard Australian English, the word ''labour'' is spelt with a ''u''. However, the political party uses the spelling ''Labor'', without a ''u''. There was originally no standardised spelling of the party's name, with ''Labor'' and ''Labour'' both in common usage. According to Ross McMullin, who wrote an official history of the Labor Party, the title page of the proceedings of the Federal Conference used the spelling "Labor" in 1902, "Labour" in 1905 and 1908, and then "Labor" from 1912 onwards.{{sfn|McMullin|1991|p=ix}} In 1908, James Catts put forward a motion at the Federal Conference that "the name of the party be the Australian Labour Party", which was carried by 22 votes to 2. A separate motion recommending state branches adopt the name was defeated. There was no uniformity of party names until 1918 when the Federal party resolved that state branches should adopt the name "Australian Labor Party", now spelt without a ''u''. Each state branch had previously used a different name, due to their different origins.{{sfn|McMullin|1991|p=116}}{{efn|According to ''The Australian Worker'', in 1918 the state parties comprised the Political Labor League (New South Wales), the Queensland Labor Party, the United Labor Party (South Australia), the Workers' Political Labor League (Tasmania), the Political Labor Council (Victoria), and the Australian Labor Federation (Western Australia).<ref>{{cite news |url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72188541 |title = 'The Australian Labor Party: Labor's Uniform Name |newspaper = The Australian Worker |date = 12 December 1918 |access-date = 15 May 2020 |archive-date = 2 April 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162807/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/72188541 |url-status = live }}</ref> However, according to the ''South Australian Register'', the state parties in New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria had already adopted the standardised name by 1917.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60323264 |title = What's in a Name? |newspaper = South Australian Register |date = 15 September 1917 |access-date = 15 May 2020 |archive-date = 2 April 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162809/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60323264 |url-status = live }}</ref>}}

Although the ALP officially adopted the spelling without a ''u'', it took decades for the official spelling to achieve widespread acceptance.<ref>{{cite book |quote = The Commonwealth conference of the party adopted the spelling 'Labor' in the official title of the Labor Party, but the parliamentary debates did not follow suit. Thereafter the debates recorded the same proceedings with different spellings, and it was many years before the spelling 'Labor' was accepted officially or used consistently in print. |first = Frank |last = Crowley |title = Big John Forrest: A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia |publisher = UWA Press |year = 2000 |page = 394 }}</ref>{{efn|In 1954, Labor MP Ted Johnson complained in the Parliament of Western Australia that both ''Hansard'' and the daily newspapers were still using the spelling "Labour".<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/0/1cc22d0f70c1928948257a41000ff21d/$FILE/19540707_Assembly.pdf |publisher = Hansard / Parliament of Western Australia |date = 7 July 1954 |title = Australian Labour Party, as to spelling of "Labour" |page = 302 |access-date = 20 November 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181120095713/http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/0/1cc22d0f70c1928948257a41000ff21d/$FILE/19540707_Assembly.pdf |archive-date = 20 November 2018 |url-status = dead }}</ref> As late as the 1980s, historian Finlay Crisp used the spelling "Labour" in academic works about the party.<ref>Crisp, Finlay (1978) [1951]. ''The Australian Federal Labour Party, 1901–1951''.</ref><ref>Crisp, Finlay; Atkinson, Barbara (1981). ''Australian Labour Party Federal Parliamentarians, 1901–1981''.</ref>}} According to McMullin, "the way the spelling of 'Labor Party' was consolidated had more to do with the chap who ended up being in charge of printing the federal conference report than any other reason".<ref>{{cite journal |journal = Papers on Parliament |publisher = Australian Parliamentary Library |url = https://www.aph.gov.au/~/~/link.aspx?_id=0C7E239290F64DD8BD55C6C1E9F185EA&_z=z |title = First in the World: Australia's Watson Labor government |last = McMullin |first = Ross |author-link = Ross McMullin |year = 2006 |issue = 44 |access-date = 15 May 2020 |archive-date = 10 May 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200510045446/https://www.aph.gov.au/~/~/link.aspx?_id=0C7E239290F64DD8BD55C6C1E9F185EA&_z=z |url-status = live }}</ref> Some sources have attributed the official choice of ''Labor'' to influence from King O'Malley, who was born in the United States and was reputedly an advocate of English-language spelling reform; the spelling without a ''u'' is the standard form in American English.<ref>{{cite book |title = Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man |first = Peter |last = Bastian |year=2009 |publisher=UNSW Press |page = 372 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23079177 |title=Disemvowelled |work=BBC News |date=27 June 2013 |access-date=20 November 2018 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162743/https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23079177 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Andrew Scott, who wrote "Running on Empty: 'Modernising' the British and Australian Labour Parties", suggests that the adoption of the spelling without a ''u'' "signified one of the ALP's earliest attempts at modernisation", and served the purpose of differentiating the party from the Australian labour movement as a whole and distinguishing it from other British Empire labour parties. The decision to include the word "Australian" in the party's name, rather than just "Labour Party" as in the United Kingdom, Scott attributes to "the greater importance of nationalism for the founders of the colonial parties".<ref>{{cite book |url = https://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30034395/scott-runningonempty-2000.pdf |publisher = Pluto Press |first = Andrew |last = Scott |year = 2000 |title = Running on Empty: 'Modernising' the British and Australian Labour Parties |page = 39 |access-date = 20 November 2018 |archive-date = 11 April 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411203148/https://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30034395/scott-runningonempty-2000.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref>

=== Origins === {{Labour politics in Australia}} {{Australian socialism}} {{Labor|sp=uk}} [[File:StateLibQld 1 46636 After the swearing in of the Dawson ministry of the Labor Party Brisbane, Queensland.jpg|thumb|left|Anderson Dawson's ministry leaving Parliament House, Brisbane, after being sworn in on 1 December 1899. His was the first government formed by a Labour party in the world.]] The Australian Labor Party has its origins in the Labour parties founded in the 1890s in the Australian colonies prior to federation. Labor tradition ascribes the founding of Queensland Labour to a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a ghost gum tree (the Tree of Knowledge) in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891. The 1891 shearers' strike is credited as being one of the factors for the formation of the Australian Labor Party. On 9 September 1892 the ''Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party'' was read out under the well known Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine following the Great Shearers' Strike.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-09-08|title=125th anniversary of the Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party |url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/125th-anniversary-manifesto-queensland-labour-party|access-date=2021-03-23|website=State Library Of Queensland|language=en|archive-date=11 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211195940/https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/125th-anniversary-manifesto-queensland-labour-party|url-status=live}}</ref> The State Library of Queensland now holds the manifesto;<ref>{{SLQ-CC-BY|url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/charles-seymour-papers-1880-1924-treasure-collection-john-oxley-library|title=Charles Seymour Papers 1880–1924: Treasure collection of the John Oxley Library|date=8 November 2021|author(s)=Anne Scheu|access-date=2 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=OM69-18 Charles Seymour Papers 1880–1924|url=http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=slq_alma21148463600002061&vid=SLQ&search_scope=DT&tab=dt&lang=en_US&context=L|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-23|website=State Library of Queensland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109054559/http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=slq_alma21148463600002061&vid=SLQ&search_scope=DT&tab=dt&lang=en_US&context=L |archive-date=9 November 2021 }}</ref> in 2008 the historic document was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Australian Register<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party, 1892 |url=https://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/manifesto-queensland-labour-party-1892|access-date=2021-03-23|website=Australian Memory of the World|archive-date=29 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329200053/https://www.amw.org.au/register/listings/manifesto-queensland-labour-party-1892|url-status=live}}</ref>&nbsp;and, in 2009, the document was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party to the people of Queensland (dated 9 September 1892) |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-5/manifesto-of-the-queensland-labour-party-to-the-people-of-queensland-dated-9-september-1892/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=UNESCO|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331174524/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-5/manifesto-of-the-queensland-labour-party-to-the-people-of-queensland-dated-9-september-1892|url-status=live}}</ref> The Balmain, New South Wales branch of the party claims to be the oldest in Australia. However, the Scone Branch has a receipt for membership fees for the Labour Electoral League dated April 1891. This predates the Balmain claim. This can be attested in the Centenary of the ALP book.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Labour as a parliamentary party dates from 1891 in New South Wales and South Australia, 1893 in Queensland, and later in the other colonies.

The first election contested by Labour candidates was the 1891 New South Wales election, when Labour candidates (then called the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales) won 35 of 141 seats. The major parties were the Protectionist and Free Trade parties and Labour held the balance of power. It offered parliamentary support in exchange for policy concessions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McMullen |first1=Ross |year=2004 |title=So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World's First National Labour Government |location=Carlton North, Victoria |publisher=Scribe Publications |page=4 |isbn=978-1-920769-13-0}}</ref> The United Labor Party (ULP) of South Australia was founded in 1891, and three candidates were that year elected to the South Australian Legislative Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/chronology/may/9-may-1891-united-labor-party-elected-to-legislati.shtml|title=9 May 1891 United Labor Party elected to Legislative Council (Celebrating South Australia)|author=Alison Painter|access-date=11 June 2015|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306103358/http://www.sahistorians.org.au/175/chronology/may/9-may-1891-united-labor-party-elected-to-legislati.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> The first successful South Australian House of Assembly candidate was John McPherson at the 1892 East Adelaide by-election. Richard Hooper however was elected as an Independent Labor candidate at the 1891 Wallaroo by-election, while he was the first labor member of the House of Assembly he was not a member of the newly formed ULP.

At the 1893 South Australian elections, the ULP was immediately elevated to balance of power status with 10 of 54 lower house seats. The liberal government of Charles Kingston was formed with the support of the ULP, ousting the conservative government of John Downer. So successful, less than a decade later at the 1905 state election, Thomas Price formed the world's first stable Labor government. John Verran led Labor to form the state's first of many majority governments at the 1910 state election.

In 1899, Anderson Dawson formed a minority Labour<!-- do not change spelling, it is correct in historical context --> government in Queensland, the first in the world, which lasted one week while the conservatives regrouped after a split.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Glenn A. |title=The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate |date=2000 |publisher=Melbourne University Press |location=Carlton South |pages=81–84 |url=https://biography.senate.gov.au/andrew-dawson/ |access-date=15 August 2025}}</ref>

The colonial Labour<!-- Do not change spelling, it is correct in historical context. --> parties and the trade unions were mixed in their support for the Federation of Australia. Some Labour representatives argued against the proposed constitution, claiming that the Senate as proposed was too powerful, similar to the anti-reformist colonial upper houses and the British House of Lords. They feared that federation would further entrench the power of the conservative forces. However, the first Labour<!-- Do not change spelling, it is correct in historical context. --> leader and Prime Minister Chris Watson was a supporter of federation.

Historian Celia Hamilton, examining New South Wales, argues for the central role of Irish Catholics. Before 1890, they opposed Henry Parkes, the main Liberal leader, and of free trade, seeing them both as the ideals of Protestant Englishmen who represented landholding and large business interests. In the strike of 1890 the leading Catholic, Sydney's Archbishop Francis Moran was sympathetic toward unions, but Catholic newspapers were negative. After 1900, says Hamilton, Irish Catholics were drawn to the Labour Party because its stress on equality and social welfare fitted with their status as manual labourers and small farmers. In the 1910 elections Labour gained in the more Catholic areas and the representation of Catholics increased in Labour's parliamentary ranks.<ref>Celia Hamilton, "Irish-Catholics of New South Wales and the Labor Party, 1890–1910." ''Historical Studies: Australia & New Zealand'' (1958) 8#31: 254–267.</ref>

=== Early decades at the federal level === thumb|Group photograph of federal Labour Party MPs elected to the House of Representatives and Senate at the inaugural 1901 election The federal parliament in 1901 was contested by each state Labour Party. In total, they won 15 of the 75 seats in the House of Representatives, collectively holding the balance of power, and the Labour members now met as the Federal Parliamentary Labour<!-- do not change spelling, it is correct in historical context --> Party (informally known as the caucus) on 8 May 1901 at Parliament House, Melbourne, the meeting place of the first federal Parliament.{{sfn|Faulkner|Macintyre|2001|p=3}} The caucus decided to support the incumbent Protectionist Party in minority government, while the Free Trade Party formed the opposition. It was some years before there was any significant structure or organisation at a national level. Labour <!-- Do not change spelling, is correct in historical context. -->under Chris Watson doubled its vote at the 1903 federal election and continued to hold the balance of power. In April 1904, however, Watson and Alfred Deakin fell out over the issue of extending the scope of industrial relations laws concerning the Conciliation and Arbitration bill to cover state public servants, the fallout causing Deakin to resign. Free Trade leader George Reid declined to take office, which saw Watson become the first Labour<!-- Do not change spelling, is correct in historical context. --> Prime Minister of Australia, and the world's first Labour head of government at a national level (Anderson Dawson had led a short-lived Labour government in Queensland in December 1899), though his was a minority government that lasted only four months. He was aged only 37, and is still the youngest prime minister in Australia's history.<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Nairn |first= Bede |year= 1990 |id2= watson-john-christian-chris-9003 |title= John Christian (Chris) Watson (1867–1941) |volume=12 | access-date =14 August 2025 }}</ref>

George Reid of the Free Trade Party adopted a strategy of trying to reorient the party system along Labour vs. non-Labour lines prior to the 1906 federal election and renamed his Free Trade Party to the Anti-Socialist Party. Reid envisaged a spectrum running from socialist to anti-socialist, with the Protectionist Party in the middle. This attempt struck a chord with politicians who were steeped in the Westminster tradition and regarded a two-party system as very much the norm.<ref>{{cite web|author=Charles Richardson |url=https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2015/04/images/stories/policy-magazine/2009-autumn/25-1-09-charles-richardson.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2015/04/images/stories/policy-magazine/2009-autumn/25-1-09-charles-richardson.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Fusion: The Party System We Had To Have? |date=25 January 2009 |access-date=19 September 2017}}</ref>

Although Watson led the party to a plurality victory (though not government, thanks to the union of Free Traders and Protectionists) in 1906, he stepped down from the leadership the following year, to be succeeded by Andrew Fisher's minority government for seven months until it fell in June 1909. At the 1910 federal election, Fisher led Labor to victory, forming Australia's first elected federal majority government, Australia's first elected Senate majority, the world's first Labour Party majority government at a national level, and after the 1904 Chris Watson minority government the world's second Labour Party government at a national level. It was the first time a Labour Party had controlled any house of a legislature, and the first time the party controlled both houses of a bicameral legislature.<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |year=1981 |first=D. J. |last=Murphy |title=Andrew Fisher (1862–1928) |volume=8 |id2=fisher-andrew-378 |access-date =31 May 2007 |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fisher-andrew-378 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250329210736/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fisher-andrew-378 |archive-date= 29 March 2025 |url-status= dead}}</ref> The state branches were also successful, except in Victoria, where the strength of Deakinite liberalism inhibited the party's growth. The state branches formed their first majority governments in New South Wales and South Australia in 1910, Western Australia in 1911, Queensland in 1915 and Tasmania in 1925. Such success eluded the other Commonwealth Labour parties for another decade; the Labour Party in Great Britain would not form even a minority government until 1924, and would have to wait another twenty-one years to win a majority in its own right. Even in neighbouring New Zealand, Labour would not take power until 1935. In Canada, a national labour party was not even formed until 1932 and never formed government.

One of the first members of the NSW Labor caucus described themselves as "a band of unhappy amateurs", made up of blue collar workers, a squatter, a doctor, and even a mine owner, indicating that Labor was formed of more than just unions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Painter |first=Steve |title=Labor and the Fight for Socialism |publisher=New Course Pty Ltd |year=1988 |isbn=0-909-196-35-4 |edition=2nd |location=Sydney |pages=4}}</ref> In addition, many members from the working class supported the liberal notion of free trade between the colonies; in the first grouping of state MPs, 17 of the 35 were free-traders.

In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917, support for socialism grew in trade union ranks, and at the 1921 All-Australian Trades Union Congress a resolution was passed calling for "the socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McKinlay |first=Brian |title=A Documentary History of the Australian Labor Movement, 1850-1975 |publisher=Drummond |year=1979 |location=Richmond, Australia |pages=91–92}}</ref> The 1922 Labor Party National Conference adopted a similarly worded socialist objective which remained official policy for many years.<ref name=":0" /> The resolution was immediately qualified, however, by the Blackburn amendment, which said that "socialisation" was desirable only when was necessary to "eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features".{{sfn|McKinlay|1981|p=53}} Only once has a federal Labor government attempted to nationalise any industry (Ben Chifley's bank nationalisation of 1947), and that was held by the High Court to be unconstitutional. The commitment to nationalisation was dropped by Gough Whitlam, and Bob Hawke's government carried out the floating of the dollar.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Privatisation of state enterprises such as Qantas airways and the Commonwealth Bank was carried out by the Paul Keating government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jacobin.com/2021/03/australian-labor-party-paul-keating-privatization-neoliberalism |title=How the Labor Party Sold Australia's Public Assets for a Song |year=2021 |author=Max Chandler-Mather |website=Jacobin.com |access-date=6 January 2025 }}</ref>

The Labor Party is commonly described{{By whom|date=July 2024}} as a social democratic party, and its constitution stipulates that it is a democratic socialist party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alp.org.au/platform/chapter_12.php |title=National Constitution of the ALP |year=2009 |work=Official Website of the Australian Labor Party |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=26 December 2009 |quote=The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030014535/http://www.alp.org.au/platform/chapter_12.php |archive-date=30 October 2009 }}</ref> The party was created by, and has always been influenced by, the trade unions, and in practice its policy at any given time has usually been the policy of the broader labour movement. Thus at the first federal election 1901 Labor's platform called for a White Australia policy, a citizen army and compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes.{{sfn|McKinlay|1981|p=19}} Labor has at various times supported high tariffs and low tariffs, conscription and pacifism, White Australia and multiculturalism, nationalisation and privatisation, isolationism and internationalism.

From 1900 to 1940, Labor and its affiliated unions were strong defenders of the White Australia policy, which banned all non-European migration to Australia. This policy was motivated by fears of economic competition from low-wage overseas workers<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 November 2016 |title=The Transformation of Labor Party Immigration Policy, 1901–1945 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/cookieAbsent |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=www.tandfonline.com |doi=10.1080/14443058.2016.1223152}}</ref> In practice the Labor party opposed all migration, on the grounds that immigrants competed with Australian workers and drove down wages, until after World War II, when the Chifley government launched a major immigration program.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Populate or perish': Australia's postwar migration program |url=https://www.naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/society-and-culture/migration-and-multiculturalism/populate-or-perish-australias-postwar-migration-program}}</ref> The party's opposition to non-European immigration did not change until after the retirement of Arthur Calwell as leader in 1967.<ref>{{Citation |last=Freudenberg |first=Graham |title=Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896–1973) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calwell-arthur-augustus-9667 |access-date=2026-05-10 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently, Labor has become an advocate of multiculturalism.

=== World War II and beyond === The Curtin and Chifley governments governed Australia through the latter half of the Second World War and initial stages of transition to peace. Labor leader John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941 when two independents crossed the floor of Parliament. Labor, led by Curtin, then led Australia through the years of the Pacific War. In December 1941, Curtin announced that "Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom", thus helping to establish the Australian-American alliance (later formalised as ANZUS by the Menzies government). Remembered as a strong war time leader and for a landslide win at the 1943 federal election, Curtin died in office just prior to the end of the war and was succeeded by Ben Chifley.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/curtin/ |title=John Curtin – Australia's PMs – Australia's Prime Ministers |publisher=Primeministers.naa.gov.au |access-date=5 July 2013 |archive-date=26 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726084256/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/curtin/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chifley Labor won the 1946 federal election and oversaw Australia's initial transition to a peacetime economy.

At the conference of the New South Wales Labor Party in June 1949, Chifley sought to define the labour movement as follows: "We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind.{{Spaces}}... [Labor would] bring something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/chifley/in-office.aspx |title=In office – Ben Chifley – Australia's PMs – Australia's Prime Ministers |access-date=13 July 2011 |date=24 February 2009 |publisher=National Archives of Australia | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110613100927/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/chifley/in-office.aspx| archive-date= 13 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> To a large extent, Chifley saw centralisation of the economy as the means to achieve such ambitions. With an increasingly uncertain economic outlook, after his attempt to nationalise the banks and a strike by the Communist-dominated Miners' Federation, Chifley lost office at the 1949 federal election to Robert Menzies' Liberal-National Coalition. Labor commenced a 23-year period in opposition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/chifley/ |title=Ben Chifley – Australia's PMs – Australia's Prime Ministers |publisher=Primeministers.naa.gov.au |date=13 June 1951 |access-date=5 July 2013 |archive-date=16 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216203242/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/chifley/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/menzies/elections.aspx |title=Elections – Robert Menzies – Australia's PMs – Australia's Prime Ministers |publisher=Primeministers.naa.gov.au |access-date=5 July 2013 |archive-date=12 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512011252/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/menzies/elections.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The party was primarily led during this time by H. V. Evatt and Arthur Calwell.

In 1955, the Australian Labor Party split, and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) was formed. The preferences of the DLP were used to keep the ALP in Opposition until the election of Gough Whitlam in 1972.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/alp-split | title=National Museum of Australia - ALP split }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last1=Strangio | first1=Paul | editor-first1=Michael | editor-first2=Daniel | editor-last1=Courts | editor-last2=Connell | url=https://theconversation.com/australian-politics-explainer-the-labor-party-split-74149 | title=Australian politics explainer: The Labor Party split | date=18 April 2017 | doi=10.64628/AA.kwyyawwax }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://labourhistorymelbourne.org/about/past-conferences/171-2/ | title=The Great Labor Split 1955: Fifty years later | date=31 January 2013 }}</ref>

[[File:Shame Fraser Shame - ALP policy launch 24 November 1975 (16268632954).jpg|thumb|Labor Party policy launch before a crowd in the Sydney Domain on 24 November 1975]] 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 and more socially progressive ideals, and Labor Right, the now dominant faction that tends to be more economically liberal and focus to a lesser extent on social issues. The Whitlam Labor government, marking a break with Labor's socialist tradition, pursued social democratic policies rather than democratic socialist policies. In contrast to earlier Labor leaders, Whitlam also cut tariffs by 25 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730718_Tariff_Reduction/ |title=Tariff Reduction |work=The Whitlam Collection |publisher=The Whitlam Institute |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050720062736/http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1973/19730718_Tariff_Reduction/ |archive-date=20 July 2005 }}</ref> Whitlam led the Federal Labor Party back to office at the 1972 and 1974 federal elections, and passed a large amount of legislation. The Whitlam government lost office following the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis and dismissal by Governor-General John Kerr after the Coalition blocked supply in the Senate after a series of political scandals, and was defeated at the 1975 federal election in the largest landslide of Australian federal history.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/general/the-dismissal-a-brief-history/2005/11/10/1131578175136.html | location=Melbourne | work=The Age | title=The dismissal: a brief history | date=11 November 2005 | access-date=22 March 2012 | archive-date=2 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102130937/http://www.theage.com.au/news/general/the-dismissal-a-brief-history/2005/11/10/1131578175136.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Whitlam remains the only Prime Minister to have his commission terminated in that manner. Whitlam also lost the 1977 federal election and subsequently resigned as leader.

Bill Hayden succeeded Whitlam as leader. At the 1980 federal election, the party achieved a big swing, though the unevenness of the swing around the nation prevented an ALP victory. In 1983, Bob Hawke became leader of the party after Hayden resigned to avoid a leadership spill.

Bob Hawke led Labor back to office at the 1983 federal election and the party won four consecutive elections under Hawke. In December 1991 Paul Keating defeated Bob Hawke in a leadership spill. The ALP then won the 1993 federal election. It was in power for five terms over 13 years, until severely defeated by John Howard at the 1996 federal election. This was the longest period the party has ever been in government at the national level.

Kim Beazley led the party to the 1998 federal election, winning 51 percent of the two-party-preferred vote but falling short on seats, and the ALP lost ground at the 2001 federal election. After a brief period when Simon Crean served as ALP leader, Mark Latham led Labor to the 2004 federal election but lost further ground. Beazley replaced Latham in 2005; not long afterwards he in turn was forced out of the leadership by Kevin Rudd.

Rudd went on to defeat John Howard at the 2007 federal election with 52.7 percent of the two-party vote (Howard became the first prime minister since Stanley Bruce to lose not just the election but his own parliamentary seat). The Rudd government ended prior to the 2010 federal election with the overthrow of Rudd as leader of the party by deputy leader Julia Gillard. Gillard, who was also the first woman to serve as prime minister of Australia,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers/julia-gillard|title=About Julia Gillard|publisher=National Archives of Australia|access-date=22 May 2022|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112211542/https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers/julia-gillard#:~:text=On%2024%20June%202010%2C%20Julia,by%20the%20Parliamentary%20Labor%20Party.|url-status=live}}</ref> remained prime minister in a hung parliament following the election. Her government lasted until 2013, when Gillard lost a leadership spill, with Rudd becoming leader once again. Later that year the ALP lost the 2013 federal election.

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Between the 2007 federal election and the 2008 Western Australian state election, Labor was in government nationally and in all eight state and territory parliaments. This was the first time any single party or any coalition had achieved this since the ACT and the NT gained self-government.<ref>In 1969–1970, before the ACT and NT achieved self-government, the Liberal and National Coalition was in power federally and in all six states. [http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ University of WA elections database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118085343/http://elections.uwa.edu.au/ |date=18 January 2015 }}</ref> Labor narrowly lost government in Western Australia at the 2008 state election and Victoria at the 2010 state election. These losses were further compounded by landslide defeats in New South Wales in 2011, Queensland in 2012, the Northern Territory in 2012, Federally in 2013 and Tasmania in 2014.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.news.com.au/national/barry-ofarrell-smashes-labor-in-nsw-election/story-e6frfkvr-1226028779988 | work=The Sunday Telegraph | first=Barclay | last=Crawford | title=Barry O'Farrell smashes Labor in NSW election | date=27 March 2011 | access-date=29 March 2011 | archive-date=30 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630194232/http://www.news.com.au/national/barry-ofarrell-smashes-labor-in-nsw-election/story-e6frfkvr-1226028779988 | url-status=live }}</ref> Labor retained government in the Australian Capital Territory in 2012 and, despite losing its majority, the party retained government in South Australia in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/weatherill-pledges-more-regional-focus/5340926 |work=the Australian Broadcasting Corporation |title=Weatherill pledges more regional focus amid Brock support |date=24 March 2014 |access-date=4 May 2015 |archive-date=6 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806021503/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/weatherill-pledges-more-regional-focus/5340926 |url-status=live }}</ref>

However, most of these reversals proved only temporary with Labor returning to government in Victoria in 2014 and in Queensland in 2015 after spending only one term in opposition in both states.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-state-election-2015/queensland-election-state-wakes-to-new-political-landscape-20150131-132ybk.html | work=the Brisbane Times | first=Amy | last=Remeikis | title=Queensland election: State wakes to new political landscape | date=1 February 2015 | access-date=4 May 2015 | archive-date=26 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526163240/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-state-election-2015/queensland-election-state-wakes-to-new-political-landscape-20150131-132ybk.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Furthermore, after winning the 2014 Fisher by-election by nine votes from a 7.3 percent swing, the Labor government in South Australia went from minority to majority government.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-16/labor-nat-cook-takes-seat-of-fisher-by-election-recount/5969402|work=the Australian Broadcasting Corporation|title=Fisher by-election: Recount sees Labor's Nat Cook win by nine votes|date=16 December 2014|access-date=4 May 2015|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630081154/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-16/labor-nat-cook-takes-seat-of-fisher-by-election-recount/5969402|url-status=live}}</ref> Labor won landslide victories in the 2016 Northern Territory election, the 2017 Western Australian election and the 2018 Victorian state election. However, Labor lost the 2018 South Australian state election after 16 years in government.

After Labor's 2013 federal election defeat, Bill Shorten became leader of the party. The party narrowly lost the 2016 election, yet gained 14 seats. Despite favourable polling, the party also did not return to government in the 2019 New South Wales state election or the 2019 federal election. The latter has been considered a historic upset due to Labor's consistent and significant polling lead; the result has been likened to the Coalition's loss in the 1993 federal election, with 2019 retrospectively referred to in the media as the "unloseable election".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/19/labor-unloseable-election-morrison-australia-plan |title=Labor lost the unlosable election – now it's up to Morrison to tell Australia his plan |date=19 May 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Katharine |last=Murphy |access-date=21 August 2019 |archive-date=31 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531001527/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/19/labor-unloseable-election-morrison-australia-plan |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-22/labor-strategising-on-how-to-rebuild-fortunes/11530354 |title=Labor was going to hit the ground running – it hit a brick wall instead |date=22 September 2019 |work=ABC News |first=Jane |last=Norman |access-date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=11 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011201914/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-22/labor-strategising-on-how-to-rebuild-fortunes/11530354 |url-status=live }}</ref> After the 2019 defeat, Shorten resigned from the leadership, though he remained in parliament. Anthony Albanese was elected as leader unopposed.

In March 2022, Labor returned to government in South Australia after defeating the Liberal Party in the 2022 South Australian state election.

Anthony Albanese led the party into the 2022 Australian federal election, in which the party returned to power with a majority government. Despite its win, Labor nevertheless recorded its lowest primary vote since either 1903 or 1934, depending on whether the Lang Labor vote is included.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 July 2022 |title=Barnaby Joyce says Labor's 2022 primary vote was its lowest since 1910. Is that correct? |publisher=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-05/fact-check-barnaby-joyce-labor-primary-vote/101129054 |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref> Albanese later led the party into the 2025 Australian federal election, in which the party once again won a majority government in a historical landslide.

In 2023, Labor won the March 2023 New South Wales state election returning to government for the first time since 2011. This victory marked the first time in 15 years that Labor were in government in all mainland states. In 2024, Labor lost in a landslide in the 2024 Northern Territory election, losing its first mainland state or territory since the 2018 South Australian election. Labor would also lose in the 2024 Queensland state election.

== Party structure == === National executive and secretariat === The Australian Labor Party National Executive is the party's chief administrative authority, subject only to Labor's national conference. The executive is responsible for organising the triennial national conference; carrying out the decisions of the conference; interpreting the national constitution, the national platform and decisions of the national conference; and directing federal members.<ref name="Australian Labor Party-2015">{{cite web|title=ALP National Platform 2011. |url=http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/australianlaborparty/pages/121/attachments/original/1365135867/Labor_National_Platform.pdf?1365135867 |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=9 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182841/http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/australianlaborparty/pages/121/attachments/original/1365135867/Labor_National_Platform.pdf?1365135867 |archive-date=23 September 2015 }}</ref>

The party holds a national conference every three years, which consists of delegates representing the state and territory branches (many coming from affiliated trade unions, although there is no formal requirement for unions to be represented at the national conference). The national conference decides the party's platform, elects the national executive and appoints office-bearers such as the national secretary, who also serves as national campaign director during elections. The current national secretary is Paul Erickson. The head office of the ALP, the national secretariat, is managed by the national secretary. It plays a dual role of administration and a national campaign strategy. It acts as a permanent secretariat to the national executive by managing and assisting in all administrative affairs of the party. As the national secretary also serves as national campaign director during elections, it is also responsible for the national campaign strategy and organisation.

=== Federal Parliamentary Labor Party === {{Main|Australian Labor Party Caucus}}

The elected members of the Labor party in both houses of the national Parliament meet as the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, also known as the Caucus (see also caucus).<ref>{{cite web|title=National Platform of the Australian Labor Party|url=https://cdn.australianlabor.com.au/documents/ALP_National_Platform.pdf|publisher=Australian Labor Party|access-date=16 March 2016|page=215|archive-date=22 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322193603/https://cdn.australianlabor.com.au/documents/ALP_National_Platform.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Besides discussing parliamentary business and tactics, the Caucus also is involved in the election of the federal parliamentary leaders.

=== Federal parliamentary leaders === {{main|Leaders of the Australian Labor Party}}

Until 2013, the parliamentary leaders were elected by the Caucus from among its members. The leader has historically been a member of the House of Representatives. Since October 2013, a ballot of both the Caucus and by the Labor Party's rank-and-file members determined the party leader and the deputy leader.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-elected-labor-leader-20131013-2vfzy.html|title=Bill Shorten elected Labor leader|author=Harrison, Bill|date=13 October 2013|access-date=19 July 2014|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|archive-date=13 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013232934/http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-elected-labor-leader-20131013-2vfzy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When the Labor Party is in government, the party leader is the prime minister and the deputy leader is the deputy prime minister. If a Labor prime minister resigns or dies in office, the deputy leader acts as prime minister and party leader until a successor is elected. The deputy prime minister also acts as prime minister when the prime minister is on leave or out of the country. Members of the Ministry are also chosen by Caucus, though the leader may allocate portfolios to the ministers.

Anthony Albanese is the leader of the federal Labor party, serving since 30 May 2019. The deputy leader is Richard Marles, also serving since 30 May 2019.

=== State and territory branches === {{main|List of state and territory branches of the Australian Labor Party}}

The Australian Labor Party is a federal party, consisting of eight branches from each state and territory. While the National Executive is responsible for national campaign strategy, each state and territory are an autonomous branch and are responsible for campaigning in their own jurisdictions for federal, state and local elections. State and territory branches consist of both individual members and affiliated trade unions, who between them decide the party's policies, elect its governing bodies and choose its candidates for public office.

Members join a state branch and pay a membership fee, which is graduated according to income. The majority of trade unions in Australia are affiliated to the party at a state level. Union affiliation is direct and not through the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Affiliated unions pay an affiliation fee based on the size of their membership. Union affiliation fees make up a large part of the party's income. Other sources of funds for the party include political donations and public funding.

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Members are generally expected to attend at least one meeting of their local branch each year, although there are differences in the rules from state to state. In practice, only a dedicated minority regularly attend meetings. Many members are only active during election campaigns.

The members and unions elect delegates to state and territory conferences (usually held annually, although more frequent conferences are often held). These conferences decide policy, and elect state or territory executives, a state or territory president (an honorary position usually held for a one-year term), and a state or territory secretary (a full-time professional position). However, ACT Labor directly elects its president. The larger branches also have full-time assistant secretaries and organisers. In the past the ratio of conference delegates coming from the branches and affiliated unions has varied from state to state, however under recent national reforms at least 50% of delegates at all state and territory conferences must be elected by branches.

In some states, the party also contests local government elections or endorses local candidates. In others it does not, preferring to allow its members to run as non-endorsed candidates. The process of choosing candidates is called preselection. Candidates are preselected by different methods in the various states and territories. In some they are chosen by ballots of all party members, in others by panels or committees elected by the state conference, in still others by a combination of these two.

The state and territory Labor branches are the following: {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; text-align: center;" !colspan=2 rowspan=3 |Branch !rowspan=3 |Leader !colspan=6| Last state/territory election !rowspan=3| Status ! colspan="2" | Federal representatives |- !colspan=4| Lower house !colspan=2| Upper house ! rowspan="2" |MPs ! rowspan="2" |Senators |- !Year !Votes (%) !Seats !TPP (%) !Votes (%) !Seats |- |50px |New South Wales Labor |Chris Minns <br> {{small|(since 2021)}} |2023 |37.1 |{{composition bar|46|93|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |54.3 |37.1 |{{composition bar|15|42|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{yes2|Minority}} |{{composition bar|28|46|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|4|12|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |Victorian Labor |Jacinta Allan <br> {{small|(since 2023)}} |2022 |36.7 |{{composition bar|56|88|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor vic}}}} |55.0 |33.0 |{{composition bar|15|40|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor vic}}}} |{{yes2|Majority}} |{{composition bar|27|38|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor vic}}}} |{{composition bar|5|12|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor vic}}}} |- |50px |Queensland Labor |Steven Miles <br> {{small|(since 2023)}} |2024 |32.6 |{{composition bar|36|93|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}}} |46.2 |align=center colspan=2 {{n/a}}{{efn|Queensland has maintained a unicameral legislature since 1922.}} |{{no2|Opposition}} |{{composition bar|12|30|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|4|12|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |Western Australian Labor |Roger Cook <br> {{small|(since 2023)}} |2025 |41.4 |{{composition bar|46|59|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |57.1 |40.9 |{{composition bar|16|36|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{yes2|Majority}} |{{composition bar|11|16|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|5|12|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |South Australian Labor |Peter Malinauskas <br> {{small|(since 2018)}} |2026 |37.47 |{{composition bar|34|47|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |55.66 |37.47 |{{composition bar|10|22|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{yes2|Majority}} |{{composition bar|7|10|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|5|12|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |Tasmanian Labor |Josh Willie<br> {{small|(since 2025)}} |2025 |25.87 |{{composition bar|10|35|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |align=right {{n/a}}{{efn|Tasmania uses a semi-proportional system and thus TPP is not calculated.}} |align=right {{n/a}}{{efn|Tasmania elects legislative council representatives on a periodic basis, with elections held almost every year.}} |{{composition bar|3|15|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{no2|Opposition}} |{{composition bar|4|5|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|4|12|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |ACT Labor |Andrew Barr |2024 |34.5 |{{composition bar|10|25|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |align=right {{n/a}}{{efn|The ACT uses a semi-proportional system and thus TPP is not calculated.}} |align=center colspan=2 {{n/a}}{{efn|The ACT has a unicameral parliament.}} |{{yes2|Minority}} |{{composition bar|3|3|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|1|2|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |- |50px |Territory Labor |Selena Uibo <br> {{small|(since 2024)}} |2024 |28.7 |{{composition bar|4|25|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |42.0 |align=center colspan=2 {{n/a}}{{efn|The Northern Territory has a unicameral parliament.}} |{{no2|Opposition}} |{{composition bar|2|2|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |{{composition bar|1|2|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |}

=== Country Labor === The '''Country Labor Party''', commonly known as '''Country Labor''', was an affiliated organisation of the Labor Party. Although not expressly defined, Country Labor operated mainly within rural New South Wales, and was mainly seen as an extension of the New South Wales branch that operates in rural electorates.

Country Labor was used as a designation by candidates contesting elections in rural areas. The Country Labor Party was registered as a separate party in New South Wales,<ref>[https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/candidates_and_parties/registered_political_parties/list_of_registered_parties List of Registered Parties] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330055833/https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/candidates_and_parties/registered_political_parties/list_of_registered_parties |date=30 March 2019 }}, Electoral Commission NSW.</ref> and was also registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for federal elections.<ref name="Current register of political parties">[https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/ Current register of political parties] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418193211/https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/ |date=18 April 2018 }}, Australian Electoral Commission.</ref> It did not have the same status in other states and, consequently, that designation could not be used on the ballot paper.

The creation of a separation designation for rural candidates was first suggested at the June 1999 ALP state conference in New South Wales. In May 2000, following Labor's success at the 2000 Benalla by-election in Victoria, Kim Beazley announced that the ALP intended to register a separate "Country Labor Party" with the AEC;<ref>[https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/country-labor-new-direction Country Labor: a new direction?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228083258/https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/country-labor-new-direction |date=28 February 2020 }}, 7 June 2000. Retrieved 29 September 2017</ref> this occurred in October 2000.<ref name="Current register of political parties"/> The Country Labor designation was most frequently used in New South Wales. According to the ALP's financial statements for the 2015–16 financial year, NSW Country Labor had around 2,600 members (around 17 percent of the party total), but almost no assets. It recorded a severe funding shortfall at the 2015 New South Wales election, and had to rely on a $1.68-million loan from the party proper to remain solvent. It had been initially assumed that the party proper could provide the money from its own resources, but the NSW Electoral Commission ruled that this was impermissible because the parties were registered separately. Instead the party proper had to loan Country Labor the required funds at a commercial interest rate.<ref>[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/nearinsolvent-country-labor-may-never-repay-168m-to-party/news-story/b760e84faa14fda082bbb33600ec4743 Near-insolvent Country Labor 'may never repay' $1.68m to party], ''The Australian'', 28 July 2017.</ref>

The Country Labor Party was de-registered by the New South Wales Electoral Commission in 2021, however Country Labor still operates as an internal policy action caucus within several state branches.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cancellation of Registration of Political Party |url=https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/NSWEC/media/NSWEC/Registers/Register%20of%20parties/Public-notice-Country-Labor-Party.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/NSWEC/media/NSWEC/Registers/Register%20of%20parties/Public-notice-Country-Labor-Party.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |website=New South Wales Electoral Commission}}</ref>

=== Australian Young Labor === {{main|Australian Young Labor}} Australian Young Labor is the youth wing of the Australian Labor Party, where all members under age 26 are automatically members. It is the peak youth body within the party, and an ''Equity Group'' within all state and territory branches. Former presidents of AYL have included former NSW Premier Bob Carr, Federal Leader of the House Tony Burke, former Special Minister of State Senator John Faulkner, former Australian Workers Union National Secretary, former Member for Maribyrnong and former Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten, as well as dozens of State Ministers and MPs. The current National President is Chris Hancock, from Queensland.

== Ideology and factions == Labor's constitution has long stated: "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields".<ref name="Australian Labor Party-2015"/> This "socialist objective" was introduced in 1921, but was later qualified by two further objectives: "maintenance of and support for a competitive non-monopolistic private sector" and "the right to own private property". Labor governments have not attempted the "democratic socialisation" of any industry since the 1940s, when the Chifley government failed to nationalise the private banks, and in fact have privatised several industries such as aviation and banking.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'|last=Frankel|first=Boris|journal=New Left Review|date=1997|volume=1|issue=221|pages=3–33|article-number=1885 |doi=10.64590/p86 |access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Social Democrats and Neo-Liberalism: A Case Study of the Australian Labor Party|last=Lavelle|first=Ashley|journal=Political Studies|date=1 December 2005|volume=53|issue=4|pages=753–771|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00555.x|s2cid=144842245}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Ties that Unwind? Social Democratic Parties and Unions in Australia and Britain|last=Lavelle|first=Ashley|s2cid=152364613|journal=Labour History|date=May 2010|volume=53|issue=98|pages=55–75|doi=10.5263/labourhistory.98.1.55|jstor=10.5263/labourhistory.98.1.55|hdl=10072/33646|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Humphrys |first=Elizabeth |title=How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project |date=8 October 2018 |publisher=Brill Academic Publishers |isbn=978-90-04-38346-3 |author-link=Elizabeth Humphrys}}</ref>

=== Factions === {{Infobox political party | name = Parliamentary caucus seats<ref name="TheNightlyFactions">{{cite web |last1=Smith|last2=Curtis |last3=Ransley|first1=Nicola|first2=Katina |first3=Ellen |title=Inside the Labor machine: Your guide to all the factions |url=https://thenightly.com.au/politics/australia/inside-the-labor-machine-your-guide-to-all-the-factions-c-18621566 |website=The Nightly |access-date=11 May 2025 |date=9 May 2025}}</ref> | native_name = | logo = File:Australian Labor Party Federal Caucus 2025.svg | colorcode = {{party color|Australian Labor Party}} | seats1_title = Labor Left | seats1 = {{composition bar|61|123|color=#FFF|hex=#FF0000}} | seats2_title = Labor Right | seats2 = {{composition bar|60|123|color=#FFF|hex=#B00D0D}} | seats3_title = Unaligned | seats3 = {{composition bar|2|123|color=#FFF|hex={{party color|Independent politician}}}} }} The Labor Party has always had a left wing and a right wing; however, since 1989, it has been organised into formal factions.<ref name="Chen-2019">{{cite book |last1=Chen |first1=Peter |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/327988307.pdf#page=116 |title=Australian Politics and Policy |last2=Barry |first2=Nicholas |last3=Butcher |first3=John |last4=Clune |first4=David |last5=Cook |first5=Ian |last6=Garnier |first6=Adele |last7=Haigh |first7=Yvonne |last8=Motta |first8=Sara |last9=Taflaga |first9=Marija |date=1 November 2019 |publisher=Sydney University Press |isbn=9781743326671 |location=Australia |publication-date=2019 |page=254 |language=English |access-date=20 December 2023 |archive-date=20 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220200751/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/327988307.pdf#page=116 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The two largest factional groupings are the Labor Left, who are supportive of democratic socialist ideals, and the Labor Right who generally support social democratic traditions. The national factional groupings are themselves divided into formal factions, primarily state-based such as Centre Unity in New South Wales and Labor Forum in Queensland.<ref name="Chen-2019" />

Some trade unions are affiliated with the Labor Party and are also factionally aligned. Important unions supporting the right faction are the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) and the Transport Workers' Union of Australia (TWU).<ref name="Marin-Guzman-2018">{{cite web |last1=Marin-Guzman |first1=David |title=Inside the union factions that rule the ALP conference |url=https://www.afr.com/news/policy/industrial-relations/inside-the-union-factions-that-rule-the-alp-conference-20181216-h19692 |website=Australian Financial Review |access-date=6 August 2019 |date=16 December 2018 |archive-date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806125938/https://www.afr.com/news/policy/industrial-relations/inside-the-union-factions-that-rule-the-alp-conference-20181216-h19692 |url-status=live }}</ref> Important unions supporting the left include the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), United Workers Union (UWU), the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).<ref name="Marin-Guzman-2018" />

== Policies ==

=== National platform === {{main|Australian Labor Party National Conference}} The values statements and policy details of the Australian Labor Party are contained in its National Platform, a detailed document which is approved by delegates to Labor's National Conference, held every three years. According to the Labor Party's website, "The Platform is the result of a rigorous and constructive process of consultation, spanning the nation and including the cooperation and input of state and territory policy committees, local branches, unions, state and territory governments, and individual Party members. The Platform provides the policy foundation from which we can continue to work towards the election of a federal Labor government."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alp.org.au/platform/index.php |publisher=Australian Labor Party |title=ALP National Platform and Constitution 2007 |access-date=23 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820193739/http://www.alp.org.au/platform/index.php |archive-date=20 August 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center" |+ Australian Labor Party National Platforms |- ! Conference !! Year !! Platform Title !! Ref |- | 49th || 2023 || [https://www.alp.org.au/media/3569/2023-alp-national-platform.pdf Australian Labor Party National Platform] || <ref name="Platform 2023">{{cite web |title=2023 ALP National Platform |url=https://www.alp.org.au/media/3569/2023-alp-national-platform.pdf |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 2021 || [https://alp.org.au/media/2594/2021-alp-national-platform-final-endorsed-platform.pdf ALP National Platform] || <ref name="Special 2021">{{cite web |title=ALP National Platform 2021 |url=https://alp.org.au/media/2594/2021-alp-national-platform-final-endorsed-platform.pdf |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 48th || 2018 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/6499342/upload_binary/6499342.pdf A Fair Go For Australia] || <ref name="Platform 2018">{{cite web |title=A fair go for Australia: national platform |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/6499342/upload_binary/6499342.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 47th || 2015 || [https://www.australianlaborparty.org/ALPNationalPlatformConstitution.pdf A smart, modern, fair Australia] || <ref name="Platform 2015">{{cite web |title=ALP National Platform and Constitution 2015 |url=https://www.australianlaborparty.org/ALPNationalPlatformConstitution.pdf |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 46th || 2011 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/3748948/upload_binary/3748948.pdf Australian Labor National Platform] || <ref name="Platform 2011">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party 46th National Conference: national platform |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/3748948/upload_binary/3748948.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 45th || 2009 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1642945/upload_binary/1642945.pdf Australian Labor Party National Platform] || <ref name="Platform 2009">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party National Platform and Constitution 2009 : as determined by the 45th National Conference of the ALP , 30 July-1 August 2009 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1642945/upload_binary/1642945.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 44th || 2007 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1024541/upload_binary/1024541.pdf National Platform and Constitution 2007] || <ref name="Platform 2007">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party national platform and constitution 2007 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1024541/upload_binary/1024541.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 43rd || 2004 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1569744/upload_binary/1569744.pdf Australian Labor Party National Platform 2004] || <ref name="Platform 2004">{{cite web |title=Draft National Platform 2004 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1569744/upload_binary/1569744.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 42nd || 2000 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040003/upload_binary/1040003.pdf Australian Labor Party: 2000 Platform and Constitution] || <ref name="Platform 2000">{{cite web |title=2000 platform and constitution |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040003/upload_binary/1040003.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 41st || 1998 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040001/upload_binary/1040001.pdf Constitution and 1998 ALP Platform] || <ref name="Platform 1998">{{cite web |title=Constitution and 1998 ALP Platform |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040001/upload_binary/1040001.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 40th || 1994 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032034/upload_binary/1032034.pdf Australian Labor Party platform, resolutions and rules] || <ref name="Platform 1994">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform , resolutions and rules as approved by the 40th National Conference, Hobart 1994 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032034/upload_binary/1032034.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 39th || 1991 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1513183/upload_binary/1513183.pdf Australian Labor Party 1991 Platform] || <ref name="Platform 1991">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party 39th Biennial National Conference 1991 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1513183/upload_binary/1513183.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=4 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1990 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636643/upload_binary/1636643.pdf Australian Labor Party Special National Conference] || <ref name="Special 1990">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Special National Conference 24 September 1990 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636643/upload_binary/1636643.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 38th || 1988 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1087533/upload_binary/1087533.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Resolutions and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1988">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Resolutions and Rules as approved by the 38th National Conference, Hobart 1988 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1087533/upload_binary/1087533.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 37th || 1986 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1026777/upload_binary/1026777.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Resolutions and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1986">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Resolutions and Rules as approved by the 37th National Conference, Hobart 1986 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1026777/upload_binary/1026777.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 36th || 1984 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032125/upload_binary/1032125.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1984">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032125/upload_binary/1032125.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 35th || 1982 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032121/upload_binary/1032121.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1982">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1032121/upload_binary/1032121.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 34th || 1981 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1042646/upload_binary/1042646.pdf Australian Labor Party Decisions of 1981 National Conference] || <ref name="Platform 1981">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party decisions of 1981 national conference as approved by 34th national conference , Melbourne, 1981 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1042646/upload_binary/1042646.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 33rd || 1979 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052343/upload_binary/1052343.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1979">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform, constitution and rules as approved by the 33rd national conference Adelaide 1979 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052343/upload_binary/1052343.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 32nd || 1977 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052343/upload_binary/1052343.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1977">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052343/upload_binary/1052343.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 31st || 1975 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052375/upload_binary/1052375.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1975">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052375/upload_binary/1052375.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 30th || 1973 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052378/upload_binary/1052378.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1973">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform, constitution and rules as approved by the 30th federal conference 1973 Surfers Paradise |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1052378/upload_binary/1052378.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 29th || 1971 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1042679/upload_binary/1042679.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1971">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform, constitution and rules as approved by the 29th commonwealth conference , 1971 Launceston |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1042679/upload_binary/1042679.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 28th || 1969 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1070415/upload_binary/1070415.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1969">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform, constitution and rules as approved by the 28th Commonwealth Conference 1969 Melbourne |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1070415/upload_binary/1070415.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 27th || 1967 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040068/upload_binary/1040068.pdf Australian Labor Party Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1967">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party platform, constitution and rules as approved by the 27th Commonwealth Conference , Adelaide 1967 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040068/upload_binary/1040068.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1966 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636564/upload_binary/1636564.pdf Special Commonwealth Conference, July 1966: report, findings and documents] || <ref name="Special 2 1966">{{cite web |title=Special Commonwealth Conference, July 1966: report, findings and documents |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636564/upload_binary/1636564.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1966 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636605/upload_binary/1636605.pdf Special Commonwealth Conference, March 1966: report, findings and documents] || <ref name="Special 1 1966">{{cite web |title=Special Commonwealth Conference, March 1966: report, findings and documents |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1636605/upload_binary/1636605.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 26th || 1965 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040060/upload_binary/1040060.pdf Australian Labor Party Federal Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1965">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party federal platform, constitution and rules (as approved by the 26th Commonwealth Conference 1965 |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040060/upload_binary/1040060.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1963 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1640778/upload_binary/1640778.pdf Special Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs and Defence] || <ref name="Special 1963">{{cite web |title=Official report of the proceedings of the Special Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs and Defence [Canberra, 1963 ] |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1640778/upload_binary/1640778.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 25th || 1963 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040054/upload_binary/1040054.pdf Australian Labor Party Federal Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1963">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party federal platform, constitution and rules (as amended by the 25th Commonwealth Conference, 1963) |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040054/upload_binary/1040054.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 24th || 1961 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040049/upload_binary/1040049.pdf Australian Labor Party Federal Platform, Constitution and Rules] || <ref name="Platform 1961">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party federal platform, constitution and rules (as amended by the 24th Commonwealth Conference, 1961 ) |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1040049/upload_binary/1040049.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 23rd || 1959 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332713/upload_binary/1332713.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1959">{{cite web |title=Official report of the proceedings of the 23rd Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332713/upload_binary/1332713.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 22nd || 1957 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495070/upload_binary/1495070.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1957">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 22nd Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495070/upload_binary/1495070.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 21st || 1955 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495056/upload_binary/1495056.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1955">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 21st Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495056/upload_binary/1495056.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 20th || 1953 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495054/upload_binary/1495054.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1953">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 20th Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495054/upload_binary/1495054.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 19th || 1951 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495055/upload_binary/1495055.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1951">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 19th Commonwealth Triennial Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495055/upload_binary/1495055.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 18th || 1948 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331010/upload_binary/1331010.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1948">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 18th commonwealth triennial conference, Canberra |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331010/upload_binary/1331010.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 17th || 1945 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331022/upload_binary/1331022.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1945">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 17th commonwealth triennial conference, Melbourne |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331022/upload_binary/1331022.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 16th || 1943 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331001/upload_binary/1331001.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1943">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 16th commonwealth conference, Sydney and Canberra |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331001/upload_binary/1331001.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1942–1943 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1640769/upload_binary/1640769.pdf Federal Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Special 1942-43">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the Special Commonwealth Conferences [Melbourne, 1942- 1943 ] |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1640769/upload_binary/1640769.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 15th || 1939 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331034/upload_binary/1331034.pdf Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1939">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 15th commonwealth conference, Canberra |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331034/upload_binary/1331034.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 14th || 1936 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331039/upload_binary/1331039.pdf Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1936">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 14th commonwealth conference, Adelaide |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331039/upload_binary/1331039.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 13th || 1933 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331040/upload_binary/1331040.pdf Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1933">{{cite web |title=Official report of proceedings of the 13th commonwealth conference, Sydney |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1331040/upload_binary/1331040.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || August 1931 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638652/upload_binary/1638652.pdf Special Federal Conference Melbourne, 1931] || <ref name="Special 2 1931">{{cite web |title=Special Federal Conference [Melbourne, 1931 ] |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638652/upload_binary/1638652.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || March 1931 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638646/upload_binary/1638646.pdf Special Federal Conference Sydney, 1931] || <ref name="Special 1 1931">{{cite web |title=Special Federal Conference [Sydney, 1931] |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638646/upload_binary/1638646.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 12th || |1930 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495038/upload_binary/1495038.pdf Platform and Objective] || <ref name="Platform 1930">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 12th Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495038/upload_binary/1495038.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 11th || 1927 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495035/upload_binary/1495035.pdf Platform and Constitution] || <ref name="Platform 1927">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party official report of proceedings of the 11th Commonwealth Conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495035/upload_binary/1495035.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 10th || 1924 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340114/upload_binary/1340114.pdf Platform and Constitution] || <ref name="Platform 1924">{{cite web |title=Australian Labor Party. Official report of proceedings of the tenth commonwealth conference, Melbourne |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340114/upload_binary/1340114.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 9th || 1921 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340111/upload_binary/1340111.pdf Platform and Constitution] || <ref name="Platform 1921">{{cite web |title=Official report and proceedings of the ninth commonwealth conference |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340111/upload_binary/1340111.pdf |website=parlinfo.aph.gov.au |publisher=Australian Government |access-date=11 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || October 1919 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638643/upload_binary/1638643.pdf Official Report of the Special Commonwealth Conference] || <ref name="Special 1919">{{cite web |title=Special Commonwealth Conference, Sydney, 1919 : official report of proceedings |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1638643/upload_binary/1638643.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 8th || June 1919 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340096/upload_binary/1340096.pdf Fighting and General Platform] || <ref name="Platform 1919">{{cite web |title=Official report of the eighth commonwealth conference of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340096/upload_binary/1340096.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 7th || 1918 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495033/upload_binary/1495033.pdf Fighting and General Platform] || <ref name="Platform 1918">{{cite web |title=Report of the seventh Commonwealth Conference of the Australian Labor Party |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1495033/upload_binary/1495033.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | ''Special'' || 1916 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340080/upload_binary/1340080.pdf Report of Proceedings of the Special Commonwealth Conference] || <ref name="Special 1916">{{cite web |title=Report of proceedings of the special commonwealth conference called to deal with matters arising out of the conscription issue, Melbourne |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340080/upload_binary/1340080.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 6th || 1915 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332706/upload_binary/1332706.pdf Official Report of the Sixth Commonwealth Conference] || <ref name="Platform 1915">{{cite web |title=Official report of the sixth commonwealth conference of the Australian Labor Party, Adelaide |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332706/upload_binary/1332706.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=6 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 5th || 1912 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332693/upload_binary/1332693.pdf Fifth Conference of the Australian Labor Party] || <ref name="Platform 1912">{{cite web |title=Official report of the fifth commonwealth conference of the Australian Labor Party, Hobart |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332693/upload_binary/1332693.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 4th || 1908 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332683/upload_binary/1332683.pdf Fourth Commonwealth Political Labour Conference] || <ref name="Platform 1908">{{cite web |title=Official report of the fourth commonwealth political Labour conference, Brisbane |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332683/upload_binary/1332683.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 3rd || 1905 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332665/upload_binary/1332665.pdf Third Commonwealth Political Labour Conference] || <ref name="Platform 1905">{{cite web |title=Third commonwealth political Labour conference, Melbourne: official report |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1332665/upload_binary/1332665.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 2nd || 1902 || [https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340079/upload_binary/1340079.pdf Commonwealth Labour Conference] || <ref name="Platform 1902">{{cite web |title=Official report of the Australian Labor conference, Sydney [and] Commonwealth Labour conference: official minutes of proceedings |url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/1340079/upload_binary/1340079.pdf |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=8 March 2026}}</ref> |- | 1st || 1900 || [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14291135 Federal Labour Party Platform] || <ref name="SMH 1900">{{cite news |title=The Political Labour League |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14291135 |access-date=11 March 2026 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Fairfax Media |date=27 January 1900}}</ref> |}

=== Policy Action Caucuses === The Australian Labor Party includes a variety of networks and associations that connect members, advocate for issues, and contribute to the party's policy development. The national platform currently mandates or encourages state branches to formally establish these groups along with calling for generalised interest groups known as Policy Action Caucuses (PACs).<ref>{{cite web|title=National Platform of the Australian Labor Party|url=https://cdn.australianlabor.com.au/documents/ALP_National_Platform.pdf|publisher=Australian Labor Party|access-date=16 March 2016|page=232|archive-date=22 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322193603/https://cdn.australianlabor.com.au/documents/ALP_National_Platform.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

<gallery> File:IMG 4778 Rainbow Labor at Pride March Adelaide (10757206146).jpg|'''Rainbow Labor''' members at Pride March, Adelaide 9 November 2013 File:LEAN2023conference.jpg|'''Labor Environment Action Network''' members at National Conference File:Labor for Refugees - Refugee Action protest 27 July 2013 Melbourne (9374719105).jpg|Victorian '''Labor for Refugees''' members at a public protest, 2013 </gallery>

These groups operate under different names across states and territories and are categorized into equity groups, which focus on representation based on identity or shared characteristics, and policy-focused groups, which emphasize thematic advocacy. In Queensland, these networks are formally referred to as ''Equity Groups'' and ''Associations'', which are distinct entities.<ref name="QLDLaborRules">{{cite web |title=Queensland Labor Rules |url=https://queenslandlabor.org/rules/ |website=Queensland Labor |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> Other states use terms such as ''forums'', ''caucuses'', or ''committees''.

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Policy Action Caucuses ! Organisation ! Type ! Description ! Affiliated branches ! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |- | [https://rainbowlabor.org.au/ Rainbow Labor] | Equity Group | ''"Rainbow Labor is the grassroots organisation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Labor members and supporters."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Rainbow Labor |url=https://rainbowlabor.org.au/ |website=rainbowlabor.org.au |publisher=Rainbow Labor |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT | <ref>{{cite news |last1=James |first1=Michael |title=Concerns Raised Over New WA Pride Parade Rules |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/concerns-raised-over-new-wa-pride-parade-rules/239800 |access-date=17 April 2026 |newspaper=Star Observer |date=22 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shannon |first1=Lucy |title=Tasmanian Labor MP in social media spat with party members over same-sex marriage |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-08/tasmanian-labor-mp-in-social-media-spat-with-party-members-over/7008506 |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=8 December 2015}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gow |first1=Jack |title=Debate rages over police marching at Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ahead of vote |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/debate-rages-over-police-at-mardi-gras-ahead-of-vote/104694026 |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=6 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Shibu |title=Rainbow Labor’s Stall At Midsumma Carnival Targeted |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/victoria-news/rainbow-labors-stall-at-midsumma-carnival-targeted/228139 |access-date=18 April 2026 |newspaper=Star Observer |date=22 January 2024}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sargeant |first1=Chloe |title=Alex Greenwich & Rainbow Labor On The Equality Bill & Where We Go From Here |url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/alex-greenwich-rainbow-labor-equality-bill-where-we-go-from-here-conversation/233635 |access-date=18 April 2026 |newspaper=Star Observer |date=30 October 2024}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/ALPQILN/ Indigenous Labor Network]{{efn|In New South Wales and Western Australia known as the ''First Nations Network.''}} | Equity Group | ''"The Indigenous Labor Network advocates for First Nations rights, reconciliation, and culturally informed policies within the party's framework. It amplifies Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in decision-making, influencing platforms on land rights and closing the gap initiatives."''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Botsman |first1=Peter |title=From Aboriginal/Indigenous Peoples to First Nations: The Transformation of Australian Politics |url=https://www.workingpapers.com.au/files/papers/from_aboriginal_to_first_nations_0.pdf |website=workingpapers.com.au |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT, NT | <ref>{{cite news |title=Labor in bid to gain more indigenous members |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/labor-in-bid-to-gain-more-indigenous-members/news-story/15bdb5b163c95e6dc4d34647ae2958b3 |access-date=17 April 2026 |newspaper=Adelaide Now |publisher=News Corporation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Sean |title=The Good Fight: What Does Labor Stand For? |url=https://percapita.org.au/the-good-fight-what-does-labor-stand-for-with-sean-kelly/ |website=percapita.org.au |publisher=Per Capita |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Charlie |title=The Voice: the brains behind the Yes campaigns |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/04/voice-brains-behind-yes-campaigns/ |access-date=17 April 2026 |website=crikey.com.au |publisher=Private Media Pty Ltd |date=4 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Breen |first1=Jacqueline |last2=Gibson |first2=Jano |title=Indigenous Labor Party members push back against Northern Territory youth bail crackdown |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-04/indigenous-labor-push-back-against-nt-youth-bail-crackdown/100097698 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=4 May 2021}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/LaborEnabled/ Labor Enabled] | Equity Group | ''"Labor Enabled is an official, member-led advocacy group within the Australian Labor Party focused on empowering people with disabilities or lived experience with disability. It works to increase political participation, ensure inclusive policy and provide a supportive network within the party."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Labor Enabled |url=https://viclabor.com.au/about/labor-enabled/ |website=viclabor.com.au |publisher=Australian Labor Party (State of Victoria) |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Vic, Qld, Tas | <ref>{{cite web |title=Labor Enabled Victoria's Tony Clark honoured at National Conference |url=https://alp.org.au/news/inaugural-kimberley-kitching-human-rights-award-winner-announced/ |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Labor Enabled – The Queensland Political Movement for People with Disabilities |url=https://projectopendoors.org/2017/08/25/labor-enabled-the-queensland-political-movement-for-people-with-disabilities/ |website=projectopendoors.org |publisher=Griffith University |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web |title=Disability Action Plan 2023–2026 |url=https://thisislabor.org/media/3525/victorian-labor-disability-action-plan.pdf |website=thisislabor.org |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=Alison |title=“A lifetime of small acts of kindness”: Ali France’s journey to historic election win |url=https://www.croakey.org/a-lifetime-of-small-acts-of-kindness-ali-frances-journey-to-historic-election-win/ |website=croakey.org |publisher=Croakey Health Media |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref> |- | Young Labor | Equity Group | ''"Australian Young Labor is the youth wing of the party, aimed at promoting social democracy, social justice, and progressive policies for members aged 15-26. Its mission focuses on campaigning for Labor governments, advocating for issues important to young people while amplifying youth voices within the party."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Change Starts Here |url=https://www.nswyounglabor.com/ |website=nswyounglabor.com |publisher=Australian Labor Party |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT, NT | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Elias |first1=Michelle |title=Young Liberals, Labor, Greens debate: a calmer clash of ideas |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/young-liberals-labor-greens-debate-a-calmer-clash-of-ideas/ygexz0s2q |access-date=17 April 2026 |website=The Feed |publisher=SBS Australia |date=18 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McIlroy |first1=Tom |title=As Albanese celebrates 30 years in parliament, what would the leftwing warrior of 1996 think of today’s PM? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/02/albanese-30-years-then-now-australia-prime-minister |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=2 March 2026}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Katharine |title=Right faction pushes to use Young Labor for votes majority at national conference |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/06/right-faction-pushes-to-use-young-labor-for-votes-majority-at-national-conference |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=2 July 2015}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/MulticulturalLaborQLD/ Multicultural Labor]{{Efn|In New South Wales known as ''Labor Action for Multiculturalism Policy (LAMP),'' in Tasmania as the ''Migrant & Multicultural Policy Action Caucus'' and in Western Australia as the ''Multicultural Labor Organisation (MLO)''}} | Equity Group | ''"Multicultural Labor is the official network for Labor members from multicultural communities, and advocates on issues that affect multicultural Australians."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Victorian Multicultural Labor (VML) |url=https://viclabor.com.au/about/victorian-multicultural-labor/ |website=viclabor.com.au |publisher=Australian Labor Party (State of Victoria) |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Vic, Qld, WA | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Hurst |first1=Daniel |title=WA Labor multicultural group in revolt over treatment of Fatima Payman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/18/wa-labor-multicultural-group-in-revolt-over-treatment-of-fatima-payman |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=18 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sakkal |first1=Paul |last2=Massola |first2=James |title=Multicultural quotas on the cards for Labor |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/multicultural-quotas-on-the-cards-for-labor-20230630-p5dknx.html |access-date=17 April 2026 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=2 July 2023}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Karamarkos |first1=Kostas |title=The Victorian Multicultural Labor Network must truly engage diverse communities |url=https://neoskosmos.com/en/2024/03/08/dialogue/opinion/the-victorian-multicultural-labor-network-must-truly-engage-diverse-communities/ |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Neos Kosmos |date=8 March 2024}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/NationalLaborWomensNetwork/ Labor Women's Network] | Equity Group | ''"The Labor Women's Networks promote activism within the ALP at federal and state levels, encourage women to participate in processes of government and public life, and aim to achieve sound policy outcomes that support women in Australia."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Victorian Labor Womens Network |url=https://viclabor.com.au/about/victorian-labor-womens-network/ |website=viclabor.com.au |publisher=Australian Labor Party (State of Victoria) |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT, NT | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Felicity |title=Meet the women who run Queensland |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6020716/meet-the-women-who-run-queensland/ |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Canberra Times |date=17 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Simon Crean’s Address To ALP Women’s Conference |url=https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/simon-creans-address-to-alp-womens-conference/ |publisher=Australian Council of Trade Unions |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Richardson |first1=Tom |title=Count unpaid parental leave towards long service: Labor |url=https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/archive/2019/10/14/count-unpaid-parental-leave-towards-long-service-labor |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=InDaily |date=14 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Harford |first1=Sonia |title=The Harvard plan to get more women into power |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-harvard-plan-to-get-more-women-into-power-20160511-goshjr.html |access-date=17 April 2026 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=18 May 2016}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/CountryLabor/ Country Labor]{{Efn|In Tasmania known as ''Labor for Regional Tasmania''}} | Association | ''"Country Labor forms the voice of regional Australia and strives to ensure that the voice of rural and regional areas remain strong within Labor."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Country Labor |url=https://viclabor.com.au/about/country-labor/ |website=viclabor.com.au |publisher=Australian Labor Party (State of Victoria) |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | NSW, Vic, WA, Tas | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Kelly |title=Anthony Albanese speaks at Country Labor Conference amid calls for fresh water access in regional schools |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-18/nsw-country-labor-conference-prime-minister-anthony-albanese/103482076 |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=18 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Labor targets country votes |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/bushtelegraph/country-labor/5552452 |access-date=17 April 2026 |newspaper=ABC Bush Telegraph |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=26 June 2014}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |title=Labor, coalition fight for rural affection |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-coalition-fight-for-rural-affection/qmgpe9lfk |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=SBS News |publisher=SBS Australia |date=19 June 2014}}</ref> |- | [https://www.lean.net.au/ Labor Environment Action Network] | Association | ''"LEAN works with affiliated unions, MPs and other stakeholders from all corners of the party to advocate for good environmental outcomes which reflect Labor’s values of social justice, decent work and strong communities."''<ref>{{cite web |title=About LEAN |url=https://www.lean.net.au/about |website=lean.net.au |publisher=Labor Environment Action Network |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT, NT | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Mizen |first1=Ronald |title=Labor targets $10.8b fuel tax credit scheme |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/labor-targets-10-8b-fuel-tax-credit-scheme-20260127-p5nx8o |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=Australian Financial Review |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=30 January 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Foley |first1=Mike |title=Albanese strikes deal with the Greens to pass environment protection bill |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-strikes-deals-with-the-greens-to-pass-environment-protection-bill-20251127-p5nitd.html |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=27 November 2025}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jervis-Bardy |first1=Dan |title=Eight Labor ‘climate champions’ to get election help from party’s grassroots environment action group |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/22/eight-labor-climate-champions-to-get-election-help-from-partys-grassroots-environment-action-group |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=22 February 2025}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/Labor4Choice/ Labor for Choice] | Association | ''"Labor for Choice is a pro-choice action network working within the Australian Labor Party to advance legal, safe, accessible and affordable abortion in Australia. It focuses on removing conscience votes on reproductive rights to ensure binding support for abortion access within the party, aiming to reduce inequalities in healthcare access."''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Karp |first1=Paul |title=Labor group lobbies for binding vote in favour of legal and accessible abortions |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/26/labor-group-lobbies-for-binding-vote-in-favour-of-legal-and-accessible-abortions |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=26 April 2018}}</ref> | NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT | <ref>{{cite web |last1=Rushton |first1=Gina |title=The Way The Labor Party Deals With The Issue Of Abortion Could Change Forever |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/labor-for-choice |website=BuzzFeed News |publisher=Buzzfeed Australia |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Abortion Legalised in All Australian States |url=https://www.newsclick.in/Australia-Abortion-Bill-Legalised-Abortion-Pro-Choice |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=NewsClick |date=28 September 2019}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web |title=2019 award winners |url=https://www.emilyslist.org.au/awards_2019 |website=emilyslist.org.au |publisher=EMILY's List Australia |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Emerson |first1=Daniel |title=‘Safe zone’ around abortion clinics in WA supported by Labor left faction |url=https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/labors-abortion-protest-row-ng-b88566347z |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=The West Australian |publisher=West Australian Newspapers Ltd |date=14 August 2017}}</ref> |- | [https://www.labor4refugees.com/ Labor for Refugees] | Association | ''"Labor for Refugees is a cross-factional movement made up of party members and trade unionists who have committed themselves to seek a just and fair Labor Party policy on refugees and people seeking asylum. Labor for Refugees has been instrumental in the improvements to the ALP National Platform at ALP National Conferences."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome to Labor for Refugees |url=https://www.labor4refugees.com/ |website=labor4refugees.com |publisher=Labor for Refugees |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> | NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT | <ref>{{cite web |title=Keynote Address: Labor for Refugees AGM |url=https://www.joshburns.com.au/media/labor-for-refugees-agm-keynote-address/ |website=joshburns.com.au |publisher=Josh Burns MP |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Labor Abandons Party Platform On Refugees |url=https://newmatilda.com/2012/08/21/federal-labor-abandons-party-platform-refugees/ |access-date=17 April 2026 |work=New Matilda |publisher=At Large Media Pty Ltd |date=21 August 2012}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web |title=Labor for Refugees |url=https://wearyourcolours.moadoph.gov.au/badges/2012-0768.html |website=wearyourcolours.moadoph.gov.au |publisher=Museum of Australian Democracy |access-date=17 April 2026}}</ref> |- | [https://www.labor4gamblingreform.au/ Labor for Gambling Reform] | Association | ''"Labor for Gambling Reform calls for the implementation of the 'You Win Some, You Lose More' report recommendations in full, specifically Recommendation 26, a comprehensive ban on all forms of advertising for online gambling."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Labor for Gambling Reform - What we are asking for |url=https://www.labor4gamblingreform.au/campaign |website=labor4gamblingreform.au |publisher=Labor for Gambling Reform |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref> | Federal, NSW | <ref>{{cite web |title=Labor members launch internal push for gambling Reform |url=https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/09/labor-members-launch-internal-push-for-gambling-reform/120611/ |website=medianet.com.au |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cannane |first1=Steve |title=A letter to Anthony Albanese could allow Labor MPs to speak up on gambling reform |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-08/albanese-government-free-vote-gambling-ad-reform-andrew-wilkie/105969714 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=8 November 2025}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Armstrong |first1=Clare |title=Gambling ad ban would pass parliament with a conscience vote, Labor MP says |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/gambling-advertising-ban-push-multi-partisan-support/106047600 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=25 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Belot |first1=Henry |title=PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/former-wallabies-david-pocock-banned-parliamentary-sports-club-gambling |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=10 October 2025}}</ref> |- | [https://laborfriendsofpalestine.weebly.com/ Labor Friends of Palestine] | Association | ''"Labor Friends of Palestine's aim is to raise awareness and take actions along with advocacy groups world wide in working to help bring about freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Labor Friends of Palestine |url=https://queenslandlabor.org/members/get-involved/labor-associations/labor-friends-of-palestine/ |website=queenslandlabor.org |publisher=Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland) |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref> | NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, Tas, ACT | <ref>{{cite news |last1=McSweeney |first1=Jessica |last2=Smith |first2=Alexandra |title=‘Reminiscent of Trump’s America’: Labor faithful condemn protest response |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/reminiscent-of-trump-s-america-labor-faithful-condemn-protest-response-20260217-p5o33j.html |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=19 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=VIDEO: Convenor of Labor Friends of Palestine speaks about Fatima Payman suspension |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-02/convenor-of-labor-friends-of-palestine-speaks/104050042 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=2 July 2024}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Josh |last2=Buckly |first2=Penry |title=Labor group urges Albanese to rescind invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/07/labor-group-urges-albanese-to-rescind-invitation-to-israeli-president-isaac-herzog |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=The Guardian Australia |date=7 January 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Remeikis |first1=Amy |last2=Beazley |first2=Jordyn |title=Federal government challenged by NSW Labor members on Palestinian recognition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/27/federal-government-faces-challenge-from-nsw-labor-members-over-palestinian-recognition |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=27 July 2024}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ikonomou |first1=Tess |last2=Osborne |first2=Paul |title=Labor members 'disappointed' by Israel war response |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8441603/labor-members-disappointed-by-israel-war-response/ |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=The Canberra Times |date=29 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SA Labor move to develop an Interest Group in support of Palestine |url=https://www.afopa.com.au/blog/2024/8/31/sa-labor-move-to-develop-an-interest-group-in-support-of-palestine |website=afopa.com.au |publisher=Palestine Center for Peace |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref> |- | Labor Against War | Association | ''"Labor Against War is a grassroots network of ALP members opposed to AUKUS and Australia being dragged into another US-led war."''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Opray |first1=Max |title=Labor sweetens AUKUS deal |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/post/max-opray/2023/08/18/labor-sweetens-aukus-deal |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=The Saturday Paper |publisher=Schwartz Media |date=18 August 2023}}</ref> | Federal | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Park |first1=Andy |title=Anti-AUKUS Labor group questions defence pact |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/worldtoday/anti-aukus-labor-group-questions-defence-pact/105061456 |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=ABC Listen |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=17 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=VIDEO: Labor party members urge MPs to scrap AUKUS under Donald Trump |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/labor-party-members-urge-mps-to-scrap-aukus-under/105060062 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=17 March 2025}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ransley |first1=Ellen |title=Peter Dutton issues open letter as Labor faction to fight over AUKUS |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/peter-dutton-issues-open-letter-as-labor-faction-to-fight-over-aukus/news-story/d48cfb610da914c674f5caf48d6a2cc7 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=News Corporation |date=18 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Unions to march against nuclear subs, citing health risks over jobs |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/unions-to-march-against-nuclear-subs-citing-health-risks-over-jobs-20230505-p5d5ug.html |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=5 May 2023}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Giannini |first1=Dominic |title=Labor dissenters look to implode nuclear submarine pact |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8312872/labor-dissenters-look-to-implode-nuclear-submarine-pact/ |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=The Canberra Times |date=17 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Henderson |first1=Anna |last2=Aidone |first2=David |title='Australia, wake up': Labor faces AUKUS review calls, Democrat says China will 'cheer' US move |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/united-states-aukus-review-albanese-trump/v633aqr25 |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=SBS News |publisher=SBS Australia |date=12 June 2025}}</ref> |- | [https://www.facebook.com/laborteachers/ Labor Teachers]{{Efn|In New South Wales known as the ''NSW Labor Teachers network''}} | Association | ''"Labor Teachers is a rank-and-file organisation consisting of both public and independent school teachers active in our party’s branches. Teachers have established this group to ensure that the party listens to teachers, supports the hard work of education unions and implements progressive education policy."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Fight One Nation's 'Parental Rights' Bill |url=https://nswlabordemocracy.good.do/fightonenationsparentalrightsbill/emailnswlabor/ |website=nswlabordemocracy.good.do |publisher=NSW Labor teachers Network |access-date=18 April 2026}}</ref> | NSW, Qld | <ref>{{cite news |last1=Dennis |first1=Julius |title=Queensland Teachers' Union says improvement in conditions priority ahead of strike, government confident a deal can be reached |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/qld-teachers-union-strike-cresta-richardson-john-paul-langbroek/105589264 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=30 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smee |first1=Ben |title=Queensland Labor may water down proposed ban on faith-based schools discriminating against gay teachers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/10/queensland-labor-may-water-down-proposed-ban-on-faith-based-schools-discriminating-against-gay-teachers |access-date=18 April 2026 |work=The Guardian Australia |date=10 June 2024}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cansdale |first1=Dominic |title=Queensland teachers reject state government pay offer |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/queensland-teachers-reject-state-government-pay-offer/105957054 |access-date=18 April 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=31 October 2025}}</ref> |}

== Election results == === House of Representatives === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Election ! Leader ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! ± ! Position ! Status |- !1901 | rowspan=1 | ''None'' | 79,736 | 15.8 | {{composition bar|14|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 14 | {{increase}} 3rd | {{partial2|External support}} |- !rowspan="4"|1903 | rowspan=7 | Chris Watson |rowspan="4"| 223,163 |rowspan="4"| 31.0 |rowspan="4"| {{composition bar|22|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |rowspan="4"| {{increase}} 7 |rowspan="4"| {{steady}} 3rd | {{partial2|Support (1903–04)}} |- | {{yes2|Minority (1904)}} |- | {{no2|Opposition (1904–05)}} |- | {{partial2|Support (1905–06)}} |- !rowspan="3"|1906 |rowspan="3"| 348,711 |rowspan="3"| 36.6 |rowspan="3"| {{composition bar|26|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |rowspan="3"| {{increase}} 4 |rowspan="3"| {{increase}} 1st | {{partial2|Support (1906–08)}} |- | {{yes2|Minority (1908–09)}} |- | {{no2|Opposition (1909–10)}} |- !1910 | rowspan=3|Andrew Fisher | 660,864 | 50.0 | {{composition bar|42|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 16 | {{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority}} |- !1913 | 921,099 | 48.5 | {{composition bar|37|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 5 | {{decrease}} 2nd | {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1914 | 858,451 | 50.9 | {{composition bar|42|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 5 | {{increase}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority}} |- !1917 | rowspan=2|Frank Tudor | 827,541 | 43.9 | {{composition bar|22|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 20 | {{decrease}} 2nd | rowspan=5 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1919 | 811,244 | 42.5 | {{composition bar|26|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 4 | {{steady}} 2nd |- !1922 | rowspan=2|Matthew Charlton | 665,145 | 42.3 | {{composition bar|29|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 3 | {{increase}} 1st |- !1925 | 1,313,627 | 45.0 | {{composition bar|23|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 6 | {{decrease}} 2nd |- !1928 | rowspan=4|James Scullin | 1,158,505 | 44.6 | {{composition bar|31|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 8 | {{increase}} 1st |- !1929 | 1,406,327 | 48.8 | {{composition bar|46|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 15 | {{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority}} |- !1931 | 859,513 | 27.1 | {{composition bar|14|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 32 | {{decrease}} 3rd | rowspan=3 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1934 | 952,251 | 26.8 | {{composition bar|18|74|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 4 | {{increase}} 2nd |- !1937 | rowspan=4|John Curtin | 1,555,737 | 43.2 | {{composition bar|29|74|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 11 | {{increase}} 1st |- !rowspan=2|1940 |rowspan=2| 1,556,941 |rowspan=2| 40.2 |rowspan=2| {{composition bar|32|74|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |rowspan=2| {{increase}} 3 |rowspan=4| {{steady}} 1st | {{no2|Opposition (1940–41)}} |- | {{yes2|Minority (1941–43)}} |- !1943 | 2,058,578 | 49.9 | {{composition bar|49|74|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 17 | rowspan=2 {{yes2|Majority}} |- !1946 | rowspan=3|Ben Chifley | 2,159,953 | 49.7 | {{composition bar|43|75|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 6 |- !1949 | 2,117,088 | 46.0 | {{composition bar|47|121|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 4 | {{decrease}} 2nd | rowspan=9 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1951 | 2,174,840 | 47.6 | {{composition bar|52|121|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 5 | {{increase}} 1st |- !1954 | rowspan=3|H. V. Evatt | 2,280,098 | 50.0 | {{composition bar|57|121|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 5 | {{steady}} 1st |- !1955 | 1,961,829 | 44.6 | {{composition bar|47|122|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 10 | {{decrease}} 2nd |- !1958 | 2,137,890 | 42.8 | {{composition bar|45|122|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 2 | {{steady}} 2nd |- !1961 | rowspan=3|Arthur Calwell | 2,512,929 | 47.9 | {{composition bar|60|122|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 15 | {{increase}} 1st |- !1963 | 2,489,184 | 45.5 | {{composition bar|50|122|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 10 | {{decrease}} 2nd |- !1966 | 2,282,834 | 40.0 | {{composition bar|41|124|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 9 | {{steady}} 2nd |- !1969 | rowspan=6|Gough Whitlam | 2,870,792 | 47.0 | {{composition bar|59|125|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 18 | {{increase}} 1st |- !1972 | 3,273,549 | 49.6 | {{composition bar|67|125|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 8 | {{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority}} |- !rowspan="2"|1974 |rowspan="2"| 3,644,110 |rowspan="2"| 49.3 |rowspan="2"| {{composition bar|66|127|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} |rowspan="2"| {{decrease}} 1 |rowspan="2"| {{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority (1974–75)}}{{efn|The Whitlam-led party became the Opposition after the Governor-General, John Kerr, dismissed it during the 1975 constitutional crisis, despite Labor maintaining a majority in the House of Representatives.}} |- | {{no2|Opposition (1975)}} |- !1975 | 3,313,004 | 42.8 | {{composition bar|36|127|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 30 | {{decrease}} 2nd | rowspan=3 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1977 | 3,141,051 | 39.7 | {{composition bar|38|124|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 2 | rowspan=2|{{steady}} 2nd |- !1980 | Bill Hayden | 3,749,565 | 45.2 | {{composition bar|51|125|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 13 |- !1983 | rowspan=4|Bob Hawke | 4,297,392 | 49.5 | {{composition bar|75|125|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 24 | {{increase}} 1st | rowspan=5 {{yes2|Majority}} |- !1984 | 4,120,130 | 47.6 | {{composition bar|82|148|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 7 | rowspan=4|{{steady}} 1st |- !1987 | 4,222,431 | 45.8 | {{composition bar|86|148|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 4 |- !1990 | 3,904,138 | 39.4 | {{composition bar|78|148|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 8 |- !1993 | rowspan=2|Paul Keating | 4,751,390 | 44.9 | {{composition bar|80|147|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 2 |- !1996 | 4,217,765 | 38.7 | {{composition bar|49|148|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 31 | {{decrease}} 2nd | rowspan=4 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !1998 | rowspan=2|Kim Beazley | 4,454,306 | 40.1 | {{composition bar|67|148|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 18 | {{increase}} 1st |- !2001 | 4,341,420 | 37.8 | {{composition bar|65|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 2 | {{decrease}} 2nd |- !2004 | Mark Latham | 4,408,820 | 37.6 | {{composition bar|60|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 5 | {{steady}} 2nd |- !2007 | Kevin Rudd | 5,388,184 | 43.4 | {{composition bar|83|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 23 | {{increase}} 1st | {{yes2|Majority}} |- !2010 | Julia Gillard | 4,711,363 | 38.0 | {{composition bar|72|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 11 | {{steady}} 1st | {{yes2|Minority}} |- !2013 | Kevin Rudd | 4,311,365 | 33.4 | {{composition bar|55|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 17 | rowspan=3|{{decrease}} 2nd | rowspan=3 {{no2|Opposition}} |- !2016 | rowspan=2|Bill Shorten | 4,702,296 | 34.7 | {{composition bar|69|150|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 14 |- !2019 | 4,752,110 | 33.3 | {{composition bar|68|151|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{decrease}} 1 |- !2022 | rowspan=2|Anthony Albanese | 4,776,030 | 32.6 |{{composition bar|77|151|hex={{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 9 | {{increase}} 1st | rowspan=2 {{yes2|Majority}} |- !2025 | 5,354,138 | 34.6 | {{Composition bar|94|150|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}}} | {{increase}} 17 | {{steady}} 1st |}

===Results timeline=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:80%; text-align:center" |- ! Year ! {{flagicon|Australia}}<br>AU ! class="unsortable"| ! {{flagicon|Australian Capital Territory}}<br>ACT !! {{flagicon|New South Wales}}<br>NSW !! {{flagicon|Northern Territory}}<br>NT !! {{flagicon|Queensland}}<br>Qld !! {{flagicon|South Australia}}<br>SA !! {{flagicon|Tasmania}}<br>Tas !! {{flagicon|Victoria}}<br>Vic !! {{flagicon|Western Australia}}<br>WA |- ! 1891 | rowspan=10| ''N/A'' | rowspan=136 bgcolor=lightgrey| | rowspan=98| ''N/A'' | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 35/141 | rowspan=83| ''N/A'' | rowspan=2| ''N/A'' | rowspan=2| ''N/A'' | rowspan=12| ''N/A'' | ''N/A'' | rowspan=6| ''N/A'' |- ! 1892 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 19.7 |- ! 1893 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 16/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 10/54 |- ! 1894 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"|{{decrease}} 15/125 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 19.8 |- ! 1895 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 18/125 |- ! 1896 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 20/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 12/54 |- ! 1897 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 10.4 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 4.4 |- ! 1898 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 19/125 |- ! 1899 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 21/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 11/54 |- ! 1900 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 11.2 |- ! 1901 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 14/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 24/125 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 25.8 |- ! 1902 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 25/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 5/42 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 18.0 |- ! 1903 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 22/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| 10.6 |- ! 1904 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 25/90 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 34/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 32.5 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42.6 |- ! 1905 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 15/42 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 35.1 |- ! 1906 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 26/75 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 20/42 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 26.5 |- ! 1907 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 32/90 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 18/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 34.4 |- ! 1908 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 22/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 34.8 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 37.8 |- ! 1909 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/72 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 38.9 |- ! 1910 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42/75 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 46/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 22/42 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE;border-top-style:hidden"| |- ! 1911 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 43.1 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 52.6 |- ! 1912 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 25/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 16/40 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.5 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1913 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 37/75 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 49/90 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 46.0 |- ! 1914 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 39.6 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42.1 |- ! 1915 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45/72 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 26/46 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1916 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 48.5 |- ! 1917 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 22/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 33/90 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 32.3 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 24.8 |- ! 1918 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 48/72 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 17/46 |- ! 1919 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 26/75 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 41.4 |- ! 1920 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 43/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 38/72 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 29.3 |- ! 1921 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 16/46 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 35.7 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 36.8 |- ! 1922 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 29/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36/90 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.7 |- ! 1923 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 43/72 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1924 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/46 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 34.9 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 40.4 |- ! 1925 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 23/75 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 46/90 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 48.5 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE;border-top-style:hidden"| | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1926 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 43/72 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1927 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 40/90 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 16/46 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.8 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.3 |- ! 1928 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 31/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 47.2 | style="background:#FFBEBE;border-top-style:hidden"| | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1929 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 46/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 27/72 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 39.1 |- ! 1930 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 55/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''30/46''' | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 38.4 |- ! 1931 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 14/75 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 34.9 |- ! 1932 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 24/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 33/62 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 35.1 |- ! 1933 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=5 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 6/46 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.5 |- ! 1934 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 18/74 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.8 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1935 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 29/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''46/62''' | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 37.9 |- ! 1936 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 42.3 |- ! 1937 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 29/74 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 58.7 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.0 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1938 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 24/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44/62 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 9/39 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1939 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.0 |- ! 1940 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 32/74 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 33.2 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1941 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 54/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 41/62 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 11/39 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''62.6''' |- ! 1942 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1943 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 49/74 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 36.1 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 43.3 |- ! 1944 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 56/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 37/62 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 16/39 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1945 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.1 |- ! 1946 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 43/75 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50.1 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1947 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 52/90 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 35/62 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 13/39 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 40.9 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 39.4 |- ! 1948 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49.4 |- ! 1949 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 47/121 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1950 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 46/94 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 12/39 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 48.6 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.3 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.8 |- ! 1951 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 52/121 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1952 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 49.1 |- ! 1953 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 57/94 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 14/39 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 49.8 |- ! 1954 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 57/121 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1955 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 47/122 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 52.6 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 32.6 |- ! 1956 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 50/94 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49/75 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 15/39 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 50.3 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49.7 |- ! 1957 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 20/75 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1958 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 45/122 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 37.7 |- ! 1959 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49/94 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 17/39 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44.5 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44.9 |- ! 1960 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 25/78 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1961 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 60/122 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 38.5 |- ! 1962 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 52/94 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 19/39 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44.4 |- ! 1963 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 50/122 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 26/78 |- ! 1964 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 51.3 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.2 |- ! 1965 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 45/94 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 21/39 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 42.6 |- ! 1966 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 41/124 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 26/78 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1967 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 37.9 |- ! 1968 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 39/94 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 19/39 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 45.3 |- ! 1969 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 59/125 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 31/78 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 47.7 |- ! 1970 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/47 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.4 |- ! 1971 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45/96 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 48.9 |- ! 1972 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 67/125 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 33/82 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 54.9 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1973 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44/99 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 26/47 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.6 |- ! 1974 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 66/127 | rowspan=3 style="vertical-align:top"| 30.5 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 11/82 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 48.1 |- ! 1975 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36/127 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 23/47 |- ! 1976 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50/99 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 52.5 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42.4 |- ! 1977 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 38/124 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 6/19 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 23/82 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/47 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44.2 |- ! 1978 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 63/99 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1979 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 20/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 54.3 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.2 |- ! 1980 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 51/125 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 7/19 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 25/82 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.9 |- ! 1981 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''66/99''' |- ! 1982 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 24/47 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.9 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50.0 |- ! 1983 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 75/125 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 6/25 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 32/82 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 53.2 |- ! 1984 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 82/148 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 58/99 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1985 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50.0 |- ! 1986 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 30/89 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 35.1 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 53.0 |- ! 1987 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 86/148 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 6/25 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1988 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 43/109 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 46.5 |- ! 1989 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| 5/17 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 54/89 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 22/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 34.7 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 42.5 |- ! 1990 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 78/148 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 9/25 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 1991 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 46/99 |- ! 1992 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 8/17 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 54/89 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 28.9 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 38.4 |- ! 1993 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 80/147 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 10/47 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 37.1 |- ! 1994 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 7/25 |- ! 1995 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 6/17 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 50/99 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 45/89 |- ! 1996 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49/148 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 40.5 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 43.1 | rowspan=5 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 35.8 |- ! 1997 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 7/25 | rowspan=5 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 21/47 |- ! 1998 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 67/148 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 6/17 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 44/89 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 44.8 |- ! 1999 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 55/93 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45.6 |- ! 2000 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2001 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 65/150 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 8/17 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 13/25 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''66/89''' | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 37.2 |- ! 2002 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 23/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 51.9 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''47.9''' | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2003 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 55/93 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2004 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 60/150 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''9/17''' | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 63/89 |- ! 2005 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''19/25''' | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 41.9 |- ! 2006 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 59/89 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 28/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 49.3 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 43.1 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2007 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 83/150 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 52/93 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}}{{Colour box|{{party color|National Party of Australia}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2008 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 7/17 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 13/25 | rowspan=5 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 35.8 |- ! 2009 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 51/89 |- ! 2010 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 72/150 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 26/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.9 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.3 |- ! 2011 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 20/93 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2012 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 8/17 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 8/25 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 7/89 |- ! 2013 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 55/150 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}}{{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Greens}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 33.1 |- ! 2014 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 23/47 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 27.3 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 38.1 |- ! 2015 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 34/93 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 44/89 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2016 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 69/150 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 12/25 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 18/25 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2017 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}}{{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Greens}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 48/93 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42.2 |- ! 2018 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 19/47 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 32.6 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 42.9 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2019 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 68/151 | rowspan=4 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 36/93 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2020 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 10/25 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 14/25 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 52/93 |- ! 2021 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}}{{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Greens}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 28.2 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''59.9''' |- ! 2022 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 77/151 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 27/47 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36.7 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2023 | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 45/93 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 2024 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{unchanged}} 10/25 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 4/25 | rowspan=3 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 36/93 | style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} 29.0 |- ! 2025 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''94/150''' | rowspan=2 style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=2 style="background:#FFBEBE; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 25.9 | style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{decrease}} 41.4 |- ! 2026 | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} | rowspan=1 style="background:#FF3C50; color:#FFFFFF; vertical-align:top"| {{increase}} '''34/47''' | {{N/A}} {{efn|The 2026 Victorian state election will be held on 28 November 2026}} | style="background:#FF3C50;border-top-style:hidden"| {{Colour box|{{party color|Australian Labor Party}}|border=silver}} |- ! 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==Election reviews==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Australian federal elections |- ! Election !! Election result !! Review title !! Panelists !! Ref |- | '''2025''' || {{yes2|Majority government}} || [https://alp-assets.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/documents/2025+ALP+Campaign+Review.pdf ''Beyond the Win: Meeting Australians’ Expectations and Delivering Change''] || * Chris Ford * Emeline Gaske * Lenda Oshalem * Moksha Watts || <ref>{{cite web |title=2025 Campaign Review |url=https://alp.org.au/2025_campaign_review |publisher=Australian Labor Party National Secretariat |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |- | '''2022''' || {{yes2|Majority government}} || [https://alp-assets.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/documents/ALP+CAMPAIGN+REVIEW+2022.pdf ''Election 2022: An opportunity to establish a long-term Labor government''] || * Linda White * Craig Emerson * Greg Combet * Lenda Oshalem || <ref>{{cite web |title=2022 Campaign Review |url=https://www.alp.org.au/2022_campaign_review |publisher=Australian Labor Party National Secretariat |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |- | '''2019''' || {{no2|Opposition}} || [https://alp.org.au/media/2043/alp-campaign-review-2019.pdf ''Review of Labor's 2019 federal election campaign''] || * Craig Emerson * Jay Weatherill * Linda White * Anthony Chisholm * John Graham * Lenda Oshalem || <ref>{{cite web |title=2019 Campaign Review |url=https://alp.org.au/2019_campaign_review |publisher=Australian Labor Party National Secretariat |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |- | '''2016''' || {{no2|Opposition}} || {{partial2|Review not publicly released}} || * Mark Butler || <ref>{{cite news |title=ALP review didn't blame Shorten: president |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/alp-review-didnt-blame-shorten-president/d804qlysq |access-date=23 February 2026 |publisher=SBS News |date=15 October 2017}}</ref> |- | '''2013''' || {{no2|Opposition}} || [https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2013_garrett_j_dick_m_review.pdf ''2013 Election Campaign Review''] || * Jane Garrett * Milton Dick || <ref>{{cite web |title=2013 Election Campaign Review |url=https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2013_garrett_j_dick_m_review.pdf |website=ouralp.net |publisher=Our ALP |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |- | '''2010''' || {{yes2|Minority government}} || [https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2010_faulkner_carr_bracks_review.pdf ''2010 National Review: Report to the National Executive''] || * Steve Bracks * John Faulkner * Bob Carr || <ref>{{cite web |title=2010 National Review |url=https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2010_faulkner_carr_bracks_review.pdf |website=ouralp.net |publisher=Our ALP |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |- | '''2007''' || {{yes2|Majority government}} || {{partial2|Review not publicly released}} || * John Faulkner || |- | '''2004''' || {{no2|Opposition}} || [https://australianpolitics.com/2004/11/10/tim-gartrell-2004-election-analysis.html/ ''2004 Election Review''] || * Mike Kaiser * Tim Gartrell ||<ref>{{cite news |title=ALP backs Latham despite loss |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-10-10/alp-backs-latham-despite-loss/565892 |access-date=23 February 2026 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=10 October 2004}}</ref> |- | '''2001''' || {{no2|Opposition}} || [https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2002-08-09_hawke-wran-review.pdf ''National Committee of Review Report August 2002''] || * Bob Hawke * Neville Wran || <ref>{{cite web |title=National Committee of Review Report |url=https://ouralp.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2002-08-09_hawke-wran-review.pdf |website=ouralp.net |publisher=Our ALP |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> |}

== Donors == {{See also|Political funding in Australia}}

The Labor Party is primarily funded by small individual donations, and from trade unions. In 2023–24, state and federal branches of Labor reported $67.5{{nbsp}}million in donations. Labor's largest donation was $1{{nbsp}}million from Anthony Pratt. Other large donors were unions and gambling companies.<ref>{{cite news |title=Billionaires, betting companies and 'dark' donations: 2023-24's political finance data released |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/who-are-the-biggest-donors-to-australias-political-parties/ojow9dhy3 |publisher=SBS News |language=en}}</ref> For the 2015–2016 financial year, the top ten disclosed donors to the ALP were the Health Services Union NSW ($389,000), Village Roadshow ($257,000), Electrical Trades Union of Australia ($171,000), National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association ($153,000), Westfield Corporation ($150,000), Randazzo C&G Developments ($120,000), Macquarie Telecom ($113,000), Woodside Energy ($110,000), ANZ Bank ($100,000) and Ying Zhou ($100,000),<ref>{{cite web|title=Donor Summary by Party Group|url=http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/SummaryDonorGroup.aspx|website=periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au|access-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831171109/http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/SummaryDonorGroup.aspx|archive-date=31 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Donor Summary by Party|url=http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/SummaryDonor.aspx|website=periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au|access-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920120002/http://periodicdisclosures.aec.gov.au/SummaryDonor.aspx|archive-date=20 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=March 2026}}

A 2019 report found that the Labor Party received $33,000 from pro-gun groups during the 2011–2018 periods compared to $82,000 received by the Coalition.<ref name="Knowles-2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-27/australian-gun-lobby-as-well-organised-as-nra-report-finds/10940384|title=Gun lobby's 'concerted and secretive' bid to undermine Australian laws|last=Knowles|first=Lorna|date=27 March 2019|work=ABC News|access-date=15 July 2019|archive-date=2 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162805/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-27/australian-gun-lobby-as-well-organised-as-nra-report-finds/10940384|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" width="auto" style="text-align: center" |- ! Financial year ! Total receipts ! Large donors (over $100,000) ! Party entity donors |- | '''2024–2025'''<br><ref name="AEC 25-26">{{cite web |title=2024-25 Political Party Annual Return - Australian Labor Party (ALP) |url=https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualPoliticalParty/ReturnDetail?returnId=80596 |website=transparency.aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref><ref name="Grattan">{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Kate |last2=Bowes |first2=Matthew |title=Election 2025: Where the money came from |url=https://grattan.edu.au/news/election-2025-where-the-money-came-from/ |website=grattan.edu.au |publisher=The Grattan Institute |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Staszewska |first1=Ewa |title=Politicians' kids, billionaires and delivery giants: Australia's political donors revealed |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/political-donations-2025-federal-election-leadup/pi0lbzm5h |access-date=27 April 2026 |work=SBS News |publisher=SBS Australia |date=2 February 2026}}</ref><ref name="Donation Watch">{{cite web |title=Donors for Labor |url=https://donation.watch/en/australia/party/ALP/donors |website=donation.watch |publisher=DonationWatch |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref> | '''$71,858,506'''<br>{{Efn|This total includes $34,887,284 in [https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/public_funding/ election funding] from the Australian Electoral Commission, $4,218,118 in refunds from the Australian Taxation Office and $1,873,300 in discretionary benefits from the Department of Finance<ref name="AEC 25-26"/>.}} | {{smalldiv|1= * Mining and Energy Union $3,000,000 * Pratt Holdings $2,000,000 * Westpac Banking Corporation $2,071,490 * United Workers Union $1,000,000 * Fox Group Holdings $537,500 * Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union $500,000 * Australian Manufacturing Workers Union $373,881 * Australian Capital Equity $312,000 * Australian Hotels Association $233,997 * The Pharmacy Guild of Australia $224,463 * [https://privatehealthcareaustralia.org.au/ Private Healthcare Australia] $194,700 * Macquarie Technology Group $153,000 * Maurice Blackburn $150,942 * Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association $150,000 * [https://www.tgpublic.com.au/ TG Public Affairs] $141,098 * DoorDash Australia $125,500 * Bravus Australia $121,000 * [https://nalspa.org.au National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association] $124,168 * [https://www.aada.asn.au/ Australian Automotive Dealer Association] $102,500 * Meriton Properties $100,000 * Australian Services Union - Together Queensland Branch $100,000 }} |{{smalldiv|1= * QLD Labor $1,812,776 * VIC Labor $1,605,800 * NSW Labor $1,057,672 * WA Labor $975,126 * SA Labor $279,087 * ACT Labor $124,823 * TAS Labor $54,964 * Chifley Research Centre $34,295 * NT Labor $9,923 }} |- | '''2023–2024'''<br><ref name="AEC 24-25">{{cite web |title=2023-24 Political Party Annual Return - Australian Labor Party (ALP) |url=https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualPoliticalParty/ReturnDetail?returnId=69187 |website=transparency.aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref><ref name="Donation Watch"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Glover |first1=April |title=Australian billionaire backers donated over $2m to major political parties last financial year |url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-politics-donations-labor-party-liberal-party-billionaire-backers/826404cf-448c-4527-9438-851360726879 |access-date=27 April 2026 |publisher=9 News |date=3 February 2025}}</ref> | '''$15,004,625'''<br>{{Efn|Includes payments of $186,421 from the Australian Electoral Commission, $53,237 from the Australian Taxation Office and $1,214,400 from the Department of Finance.<ref name="AEC 24-25"/>}} | {{smalldiv|1= * Pratt Holdings $1,000,000 * Australian Hotels Association $202,469 * The Pharmacy Guild of Australia $137,700 * [https://privatehealthcareaustralia.org.au/ Private Healthcare Australia] $128,400 * [https://nalspa.org.au National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association] $120,000 * Navitas Ltd $120,000 * [https://letaustralia.com.au/ Low Emission Technology Australia Ltd] $108,700 * [https://spiritsandcocktailsaustralia.com.au/ Spirits and Cocktails Australia] $104,700 * [https://fitzpatrickadvisory.com.au/ Fitzpatrick & Co Advisory] $101,521 }} |{{smalldiv|1= * NSW Labor $347,586 * VIC Labor $262,351 * QLD Labor $191,365 * WA Labor $99,012 * SA Labor $90,576 * TAS Labor $82,430 * Chifley Research Centre $29,213 * ACT Labor $20,942 * NT Labor $8,823 * Labor Environment Action Network $3,250 }} |- | '''2022–2023'''<br><ref name="AEC 22-23">{{cite web |title=2022-23 Political Party Annual Return - Australian Labor Party (ALP) |url=https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualPoliticalParty/ReturnDetail?returnId=66155 |website=transparency.aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref><ref name="Donation Watch"/> | '''$18,426,876'''<br>{{Efn|Includes payments of $1,654,195 from the Australian Electoral Commission and $1,470,448 from the Department of Finance.<ref name="AEC 22-23"/>}} | {{smalldiv|1= * Pratt Holdings $1,010,000 * PwC Australia $198,831 * The Pharmacy Guild of Australia $154,000 * [https://privatehealthcareaustralia.org.au/ Private Healthcare Australia] $144,700 * Australian Hotels Association $141,696 * Ernst & Young $128,058 * [https://www.mtaa.com.au/ Motor Trades Association of Australia] $127,375 * [https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=36926792861 Camufarre Investments Pty Ltd] $121,000 * [https://nalspa.org.au National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association] $120,000 * ASX Limited $120,000 * [https://www.medicinesaustralia.com.au/ Medicines Australia] $112,000 * Sportsbet $110,000 * Wesfarmers $110,000 * [https://www.macquariegs.com.au/ Macquarie Group Services] $108,652 * Santos Ltd $108,000 * Visa Australia $100,500 }} |{{smalldiv|1= * NSW Labor $390,808 * VIC Labor 340,280 * QLD Labor $214,810 * WA Labor $116,795 * SA Labor $88,528 * Chifley Research Centre $36,653 * TAS Labor $32,050 * ACT Labor $17,358 * NT Labor $2,188 }} |- | '''2021–2022'''<br><ref name="AEC 21-22">{{cite web |title=2021-22 Political Party Annual Return - Australian Labor Party (ALP) |url=https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualPoliticalParty/ReturnDetail?returnId=66644 |website=transparency.aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref><ref name="Donation Watch"/> | '''$58,297,794'''<br>{{Efn|Includes payments of $25,567,366 in election funding from the Australian Electoral Commission, $2,748,698 from the Australian Taxation Office and $1,499,644 from the Department of Finance.<ref name="AEC 21-22"/>}} | {{smalldiv|1= * Westpac Banking Corporation $3,585,000 * CFMEU $2,224,000 * Pratt Holdings $1,882,000 * United Workers Union $1,032,942 * Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association $1,001,100 * Electrical Trades Union $1,000,000 * Mining and Energy Union $500,000 * Australian Manufacturing Workers Union $207,903 * Australian Hotels Association $200,600 * The Pharmacy Guild of Australia $155,600 * Australian Workers Union $149,285 * Maurice Blackburn $137,329 * Clubs NSW $130,836 * [https://nalspa.org.au National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association] $126,700 * ASX Limited $120,000 * Macquarie Technology Group $115,200 * [https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=36926792861 Camufarre Investments Pty Ltd] $110,000 * Wesfarmers $110,000 * PwC Australia $105,693 * Minerals Council of Australia $102,500 * Precision Group $100,000 }} |{{smalldiv|1= * VIC Labor $1,199,885 * NSW Labor $614,981 * [https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/labor-holdings-tops-queensland-political-donors-list-20160201-gmj2qv.html Labor Holdings Pty Ltd] $600,000 * QLD Labor $414,739 * WA Labor $272,365 * TAS Labor $95,145 * SA Labor $86,837 * NT Labor $65,471 * Chifley Research Centre $52,994 * ACT Labor $35,000 }} |}

==See also== * Australian labour movement * List of trade unions in Australia * Socialism in Australia

==Further reading== * Ormonde, Paul (1982). ''A Foolish Passionate Man: a biography of Jim Cairns''. Ringwood, Vic, Australia: Penguin Books. {{ISBN|014005975X}}. * Ormonde, Paul (1972). ''The Movement''. Sydney: Thomas Nelson. {{ISBN|0170019683}} * Charlesworth, M. J. (2000) Ormonde, Paul (Ed). ''Santamaria : the politics of fear : critical reflections''. Richmond, Vic.: Spectrum Publications. {{ISBN|0867862947}}

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== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == {{Refbegin}} * Bramble, Tom, and Rick Kuhn. ''Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers, and the Politics of Class'' (Cambridge University Press; 2011) 240 pages. * Calwell, A. A. (1963). ''Labor's Role in Modern Society''. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press. * {{cite book |first1=John |last1=Faulkner |first2=Stuart |last2=Macintyre |title=True Believers – The story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=Sydney |year=2001 |isbn=1-86508-609-6}} * {{cite book |first=Brian |last=McKinlay |title=The ALP: A Short History of the Australian Labor Party |publisher=Drummond/Heinemann |location=Melbourne |year=1981 |isbn=0-85859-254-1}} * {{cite book |first=Ross |last=McMullin |title=The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party 1891–1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press Australia |location=South Melbourne |year=1991 |isbn=0-19-553451-4 }} {{Refend}}

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