Australie Labor Pairty

**The Australie Labor Pairty** (**ALP**; kent juist as **Labor** an aw) is an Australien poleetical pairty. It hae been the govrenin pairty o the Commonweel o Australie syne the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the pairty's federal pairlamentary leader an Prime Meenister o Australie. Labor currently govrens in ilk territory an in the states o Queensland, Sooth Australia an Tasmania.

Foondit in 1891 bi the emergin laubour movement in Australie, Labor is the kintra's auldest active poleetical pairty, haein contestit an won state seats frae 1891, federal seats follaein the Federation at the 1901 federal election, an gained Australie's first majority in either hoose at the 1910 federal election. The ALP pre-dates baith the Breetish Labour Pairty an New Zealand Labour Pairty amang ithers in baith pairty formation an govrenment. The pairty competes conter the Leeberal/Naitional Coalition fir poleetical office at the federal an state (an at times local) level.

## Etymology

The ALP adoptit the formal name "Australien Laubour Pairty" in 1908, but chyngit the spellin tae "Labor" in 1912. Altho hit is staundard practice in Australien Inglis sin syne tae spell the wird labour wi a "u", the pairty wis influencit bi the Unitit States laubour movement an a prominent figure in the early history o the pairty, American–born King O'Malley, wis successfu in haein the spellin "modrenisit". The chynge made hit easier tae distinguish references atween the pairty an the laubour movement an aw. Mair oot ower, the spellin "labor" hae been acceptit in baith Breetish an Australien Inglis in earlier periods. (See an aw: Spellin in Australien Inglis)

## Policy
### Modren Labor
Various ideological beliefs war factionalised unner reforms tae the ALP unner Gough Whitlam, resultin in what is nou kent as the Socialist Left wham tend te favour a mair interventionist economic policy an mair socially progressive ideals, an Laubour Richt, the nou dominant faction that tends tae bi mair economically leeberal an focus less on social problems.

The Whitlam govrenment wis the first Australien govrenment tae uise the term economic rationalism. The Gough Whitlam Labor govrenment frae 1972 tae 1975 wis different tae foregane Labor govrenments, in that hit pursued social-democratic policies raither than democratic socialist policies, a precursor tae the pairty's current thrid way poseetion. Unner the Whitlam govrenment, tariffs ayont mairches war cut bi 25 percent efter 23 years o Labor bein in opposeetion

The Bob Hawke an Paul Keating govrenments frae 1983 tae 1996 pursued mony economic policies associatit wi economic rationalism an the "Thrid Way", sic as floatin the Australien Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, chynging frae centralised wage-fixin tae enterprise bargaining, the privatisation o Qantas an Commonweel Bank, an deregulatin the bankin seestem.

It is an aa said bi a umwhile staff memer o Tony Blair that New Laubour an Blair learnt frae the Hawke govrenment in the 1980s on how tae govren when thay teuk pouer in the UK.

Foregane Labor leader Kevin Rudd's first speech tae pairlament in 1998 statit: Competitive markets are massive and generally efficient generators of economic wealth. They must therefore have a central place in the management of the economy. But markets sometimes fail, requiring direct government intervention through instruments such as industry policy. There are also areas where the public good dictates that there should be no market at all.We are not afraid of a vision in the Labor Party, but nor are we afraid of doing the hard policy yards necessary to turn that vision into reality. Parties of the Centre Left around the world are wrestling with a similar challenge—the creation of a competitive economy while advancing the overriding imperative of a just society. Some call this the `third way'. The nomenclature is unimportant. What is important is that it is a repudiation of Thatcherism and its Australian derivatives represented opposite. It is in fact a new formulation of the nation's economic and social imperatives. awtho Rudd describes himsel as "basically a conservative when it comes to questions of public financial management", pointin tae his sleeshin o public service jobs as a Queensland govrenmental advisor.

## ALP Federal Leaders
:*Shown by default in chronological order of leadership*

:*See an aw: [[Leet o ALP federal leaders bi time in office]]*

## ALP Federal Depute Leaders
:*Shown in chronological order of leadership*

## ALP State and Territory Parliamentary Leaders

## Current
* Katy Gallagher - Heid Meenister o the Australien Caipital Territory sin 5 November 2001
* Mike Rann - Premier o Sooth Australie sin 6 Mairch 2002
* Daniel Andrews - Premier o Victoria sin 30 Julie 2007
* Anna Bligh - Premier o Queensland sin 13 September 2007 (first female premier o Queensland)
* Paul Henderson - Heid Meenister o the Northren Territory sin 26 November 2007
* Lara Giddings - Premier o Tasmanie sin 26 Mey 2008
* Eric Ripper - Leader o the Opposeetion o Wastern Australie sin 23 September 2008
* John Robertson - Premier o New Sooth Wales sin 4 December 2009 (first female premier o New Sooth Wales)

## Foregane Premiers an Heid Meenisters
**Northren Territory**

* Clare Martin (2001–2007, first Labor Heid Meenister o the Northren Territory, first female Heid Meenister o the Northren Territory)
**Australien Caipital Territory**
* Rosemary Follett (1989, 1991–95, inaugural Heid Meenister o the ACT, an first female heid o govrenment o a Australien state or territory)
**New Sooth Wales**

* Nathan Rees (2008–2009)
* Morris Iemma (2005–2008)
* Bob Carr (1995–2005)
* Barrie Unsworth (1986–88)
* Neville Wran (1976–86)
* Jack Renshaw (1964–65)
* Robert Heffron (1959–64)
* Joseph Cahill (1952–59)
* James McGirr (1947–52)
* William McKell (1941–47)
* Jack Lang (1925–27, 1930–32)
* James Dooley (1921, 1921–22)
* John Storey (1920–21)
* William Holman (1913–16)
* James McGowen (1910–13)
see an aw Leader o the Australien Labor Pairty in New Sooth Wales

**Queensland**

* Peter Beattie (1998–2007)
* Wayne Goss (1989–96)
* Vince Gair (1952–57)
* Ned Hanlon (1946–52)
* Frank Cooper (1942–46)
* William Forgan Smith (1932–42)
* William McCormack (1925–29)
* William Gillies (1925)
* Ted Theodore (1919–25)
* T. J. Ryan (1915–19)
* Anderson Dawson (1899, warld's first leader o a pairlamentary socialist govrenment)

**Sooth Australia**

* Lynn Arnold (1992–93)
* John Bannon (1982–92)
* Des Corcoran (1979)
* Don Dunstan (1967–68, 1970–79)
* Frank Walsh (1965–67)
* Robert Richards (1933)
* Lionel Hill (1926–27, 1930–33)
* John Gunn (1924–26)
* Crawford Vaughan (1915–17)
* John Verran (1910–12)
* Thomas Price (1905–09)

**Tasmanie**

* Paul Lennon (2004–08)
* Jim Bacon (1998–2004)
* Michael Field (1989–92)
* Harry Holgate (1981–82)
* Doug Lowe (1977–81)
* Bill Neilson (1975–77)
* Eric Reece (1958–69, 1972–75)
* Edward Brooker (1947–48)
* Robert Cosgrove (1939–47, 1948–58)
* Edmund Dwyer-Gray (1939)
* Albert Ogilvie (1934–39)
* Joseph Lyons (1923–28)
* John Earle (1909, 1914–16)

**Victoria**

* Steve Bracks (1999–2007)
* Joan Kirner (1990–92, first female premier o Victoria)
* John Cain II (1982–90)
* John Cain (senior) (1943, 1945–47, 1952–55)
* Edmond Hogan (1927–28, 1929–32)
* George Prendergast (1924)
* George Elmslie (1913)

**Western Australia**

* Alan Carpenter (2006–08)
* Geoff Gallop (2001–06)
* Carmen Lawrence (1990–93, first female premier o a Australien state)
* Peter Dowding (1988–90)
* Brian Burke (1983–88)
* John Tonkin (1971–74)
* Albert Hawke (1953–59)
* Frank Wise (1945–47)
* John Willcock (1936–45)
* Philip Collier (1924–30, 1933–36)
* John Scaddan (1911–16)
* Henry Daglish (1904–05)

## Ither foregane Labor politeecians

See :Category:Australien Labor Pairty politeecians

For current ALP federal politeecians, see:
* Leet o members o the Australien Hoose o Reprasentatives
* Leet o members o the Australien Senate

## See an aw

* Gillard Meenistry
* Australien Labor Pairty Naitional Executive
* Australien Young Labor
* Politics o Australie
* Leet o politeecal pairties in Australie