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Known as the United Labor Party of South Australia until 1917, the Australian Labor Party at both a state/colony and federal level pre-dates, among others, both the British Labour Party and the New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation. [5]
Thomas Price (19 January 1852 – 31 May 1909) served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia.He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with increased representation at the 1906 election, serving in the premiership until his death in 1909. [1]
No Party Alignment: MP for Encounter Bay (1875–1878) 28 March 1866 3 May 1867 1 year, 36 days: 3 years, 10 days 3 June 1875 6 June 1876 1 year, 3 days: 26 October 1877 27 September 1878 336 days 19. 15th Sir John Bray (1842–1894) KCMG, JP: No Party Alignment: MP for East Adelaide (1871–1892) 24 June 1881 16 June 1884 2 years, 358 days 20 ...
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 general election contested by Labour candidates was the 1891 New South Wales election , where Labour candidates (then called the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales) won 35 of 141 seats.
The politics of Australia has a mild two-party system, with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition. Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of ...
By the 1905 South Australian election Thomas Price became the first Labor Premier of South Australia. Re-elected at the 1906 double dissolution election serving until his death in 1909, it was the world's first stable Labour Party government.
Labour: South Australia: South Australia: 30 March 1901: 16 December 1903: Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of West Adelaide. Transferred to the Division of Boothby when South Australia was abolished in 1903 Sir Langdon Bonython (1848–1939) Protectionist: South Australia: South Australia: 30 March 1901: 16 December 1903
In 1904, the ALP briefly formed what is considered the world's first labour party government and the world's first democratic socialist or social democratic government at a national level. [8] 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 ...