2019 FEDERAL ELECTION: THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
Labor party volunteers listen to Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in Sydney Source: AAP
The Australian Labor Party is Australia's oldest party in one of the world's oldest continuous democracies. One of the first labour parties created in the world, Labor grew out of the trade union movement before Federation. Faced with economic depression in the 1890s workers in Queensland decided they needed a political party to represent them. By 1899, the A-L-P had formed its first government, in Queensland, and won seats in the first national parliament after Federation in 1901…
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