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The current leader of the Labor Party, since 2019, is Anthony Albanese, who has served as the prime minister of Australia since 2022. [1] There have been 21 leaders since 1901 when Chris Watson was elected as the inaugural leader following the first federal election. Every Australian state and territory has its own branch of the Australian ...
Rudd retired from politics, so Albanese stood against Bill Shorten in the October 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership election. Although Albanese won a large majority of the membership, Shorten won more heavily among Labor MPs and became leader. Shorten subsequently appointed Albanese to his Shadow Cabinet.
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, [7] along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.
No Party Alignment: MLA for Tumut (1863–1864) Lachlan (1864–1869) East Sydney (1869–1872) 16 October 1863 2 February 1865 475 days: 5 years, 171 days 22 January 1866 26 October 1868 2 years, 278 days: 16 December 1870 13 May 1872 1 year, 149 days 76. VIC: Sir George Turner (1851–1916) KCMG PC: Non-Party Liberalism: MLA for St Kilda ...
A leadership election was held in May 2019 to determine the successor to Bill Shorten as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition.Shorten announced his pending resignation on 18 May, following Labor's surprise defeat in the 2019 federal election.
The leader of the UK Labour Party and opposition leader, Keir Starmer, congratulated Albanese for ending "almost a decade of stale conservative rule". [224] United States: President Joe Biden called Albanese on 22 May, congratulating him and reaffirming the US' commitment towards their bilateral relationship with Australia. Ahead of the Quad ...
The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) which began in 1954. [14] The split was between the party's national leadership, under the then party leader Dr H. V. Evatt , and the majority of the Victorian branch, which was dominated by a faction composed largely of ...
The Australian Labor Party National Executive, often referred to as the National Executive, is the executive governing body of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), charged with directly overseeing the general organisation and strategy of the party.