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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 ...
In 1990, the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies (SILS) was set up dedicating Singapore's desire to have a labour college. The Labour Movement 2011 (LM2011) vision was launched by NTUC to push for an all-inclusive labour movement that seeks to represent workers of all colors, nationalities, and ages and those in the new and high-growth ...
The Albanese government is the federal executive government of Australia, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party.The Albanese government commenced on 23 May 2022, when Albanese and an interim ministry of four other Labor MPs were sworn into their relevant ministerial portfolios by the Governor-General of Australia. [1]
Leigh, Andrew, (2000) "Factions and Fractions: A Case Study of Power Politics in the Australian Labor Party" Australian Journal of Political Science, 2000, vol. 35, iss. 3, pp. 427–448. Bongiorno, Frank (2014) The New South Wales Left at 60 NSW Left Website.
The party won one seat in the 1950 elections. The party contested the 1951 general elections, receiving 30% of the vote and winning two of the nine elected seats. [3] In the local elections later in the year, the party won three seats. However, the party saw several splits in the early 1950s, leading to the formation of the Labour Front.
Factional power usually finds expression in the percentage vote of aligned delegates at party conferences. The power of the Labor Right varies from state to state, but it usually relies on certain trade unions, such as the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), Transport Workers Union (TWU), the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA), Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union ...
The Workers' Party (abbreviation: WP) is a major social democratic political party in Singapore and one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the governing People's Action Party (PAP) and the other opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP).
[11] [12] Cases include former leader of the WP J. B. Jeyaretnam and leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) Chee Soon Juan, who were bankrupted in 2001 and 2011 respectively. [13] [14] [15] Another reason given is the pursuit of legal action against journalists and bloggers critical of the PAP and its policies.