Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party   (Political party)
Formation	8 May 1901
One of the two major parties in Australian politics

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the rightwing Liberal Party of Australia.

Formal political factions

The Labor Party has always had a left wing and a right wing, but since the 1970s it has been organised into formal factions, to which party members may belong and often pay an additional membership fee. The two largest factions are Labor Right and Labor Left. The Labor Right generally supports free-market policies and the US alliance, and tends to be conservative on some social issues. The Labor Left favours more state intervention in the economy, is generally less enthusiastic about the US alliance and is more focused on social-liberal issues. The national factions are themselves divided into sub-factions, primarily state-based such as Centre Unity in New South Wales and Labor Forum in Queensland. Some trade unions are affiliated with the Labor Party and are also factionally aligned.

Trouble getting power

The Liberal Party is the state-bearing party (with deeper ties to the deep state than Labor, similar to the Tories in the UK). With most press barons, business leaders and senior bureaucracy supporting the Liberals, Labor has historically had some trouble gaining and retaining power.

The deep state has engineered several campaigns to unseat Labor, such as in 1949, when Prime Minister Ben Chifley and Foreign Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt were considered ‘unsafe’ and deposed; or most famously in 1975, with the coup against PM Gough Whitlam. The party is laced with deep state operatives (Gareth Evans, Bob Carr...). It has been a target of sexual blackmail operations, most noticeably exposed as happening in New South Wales in the 1980s (Lionel Murphy, Neville Wran), but also possible a wider operation led by people like Kim Beazley Sr..

Since the Whitlam coup, most Labor leaders have either been "confidential informers" to the US (Bob Hawke), or deep state actors (Kevin Rudd). Several MPs have been selected Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.

COVID-19

Many leaders of the ALP have been particularly notable in the COVID-19 deep event and the implementation of mandatory vaccines.

ALP Premier Daniel Andrews in Victoria led the longest lockdowns in the world and forced the vast majority of the population to take the COVID-19 vaccines with coercive measures. Michael Gunner Leader of the Northern Territory government, conducted an equally ruthless policy, as did Mark McGowan, the Premier of Western Australia and Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland. All Labor state governments introduced policies to "lock out" the "unvaccinated" from the economy.

In November 2021, former NSW Premier Bob Carr called for the "unvaccinated" to "pay for their stupidity". Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd contacted Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in June 2021 to "expedite the delivery of vaccines".

In December 2021, Rudd called Senator Gerard Rennick, one of the few public voices against the deep state COVID-policy "a far right, anti-vaxx nut job." Kevin Rudd is President and CEO of the Asia Society with a salary of $988,541. The Asia Society is part-financed by Pfizer.

Party corruption

Corruption is widespread in the state branches.

Eddy Obeid

Eddy Obeid was member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1991 and 2011, representing the Labor Party. A series of three investigative hearings by the Independent Commission Against Corruption between 2012 and 2014 into the conduct of Obeid and others found that Obeid acted in a corrupt manner in relation to cafe leases at Circular Quay and that he misused his position as a Member of Parliament to benefit his family's financial interests in both Direct Health Solutions and in water licences over the family's Bylong Valley farm. In June 2014, the Commission recommended the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) consider prosecuting Obeid for the offence of misconduct in public office over his attempts to influence bureaucrats and Labor colleagues to benefit his family. In 2013, the DPP announced that it would be prosecuting Obeid for misconduct in public office, and a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of New South Wales began in February 2016. Obeid pleaded not guilty; however, a jury found Obeid guilty of misconduct in public office. He was sentenced to five years in jail with a non-parole period of three years. In separate proceedings, Obeid, together with one of his sons, Moses, and former Labor minister, Ian Macdonald, were charged with conspiracy for Macdonald to conduct misconduct in public office and grant a mining lease over the Obeid’s family farm at Bylong. In July 2021, all three were found guilty; and on 21 October Obeid was sentenced to seven years in jail, with a non-parole period of five years and three months.

Adem Somyurek

Adem Somyurek was a member if in Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrews’s cabinet as the minister for small business and local government. In his 2021 Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission testimony, Somyurek admitted that he arranged to put his own son on the payroll at the electorate office of a factional ally. Somyurek pocketed the salary himself as payment for a debt owed by the MP to Somyurek. His staff members also spent time organizing for the Right faction of Labor, also on the public payroll. While sitting in state-funded offices, Somyurek’s staffers ran right-wing branch meetings. While collecting state-funded salaries, they "harvested" ALP ballot papers from members of stacked-out branches before filling them out in bulk to secure the preselection of right-wing factional allies.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
AIJAC/Rambam Programs	“The hold of the Israel lobby over Australian politicians is based on two facts: first, donations to the political parties from the Jewish community leadership; second, paid trips to Israel extended to every member of parliament and journalists. From the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) over 700 trips alone. This political influence is particularly noticeable with the Victorian ALP Right and deserves some examination by journalistic sleuths, who seem reluctant to touch the subject. No other community, in my experience, treats politicians as their poodles, even when making a political case...”	Bob Carr	2018
Kim Beazley	“In the event of a war between the United States and China, Australia would have absolutely no alternative but to line up militarily beside the US. Otherwise the alliance would be effectively dead and buried, something that Australia could never afford to see happen.””	Kim Beazley	2006
Paul Keating	“The Albanese Government’s complicity in joining with Britain and the United States in a tripartite build of a nuclear submarine for Australia under the AUKUS arrangements represents the worst international decision by an Australian Labor government since...World War One...And that approach was to have the United States supply nuclear submarines for deep and joint operations against China... And how did this come to be? The answer lies in Anthony Albanese’s reliance on two seriously unwise ministers. Penny Wong and Richard Marles....Labor’s valiant three fell immediately into line – they would join the neo-cons in the Office of National Intelligence, ASPI, the country’s principal US apologist, the security agencies and the hapless Defence department.... Indeed, two of our major dailies, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, have for five years now, argued the notion of war against China. Or readiness for war.”	Paul Keating	15 March 2023

 

Party Members

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Anne Aly	29 March 1967		Australian MP and terror expert
Daniel Andrews	6 July 1972		Politician who came to prominence during the COVID-19 deep event.
Gai Brodtmann	24 November 1963		Australian Labor politician with close ties to the military-industrial complex.
Brian Burke	25 February 1947
Clyde Cameron	11 February 1913	14 March 2008	Australia Labor minister during the 1975 coup d'etat. "We knew MI6 was bugging Cabinet meetings for the Americans."
Bob Carr	28 September 1947		Influential Australian Labor Party politician with a love for lucrative public–private partnerships. In 2021, wants to make the "unvaccinated" pay for their own medical expenses.
H. V. Evatt	30 April 1894	2 November 1965	Australian Minister for External Affairs from 1941 to 1949
John Faulkner	12 April 1954		Australian Minister for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Global Panel Foundation
Laurie Ferguson	7 July 1952		Australian Labor Party politician and member of the Board of Advisors of the spooky Global Panel Foundation.
Julia Gillard	29 September 1961
Paul Keating	18 January 1944
John Kerr (governor-general)	24 September 1914	24 March 1991
Kimberley Kitching	16 February 1970	10 March 2022	Australian Senator who died suddenly
Jason Yat-Sen Li	1972		Australian corporate lawyer and businessman. WEF/Young Global Leader 2009, when on the board of China-Australia Chamber of Commerce. Heavy Help from ALP leadership figures to start political career.
Richard Marles	13 July 1967		Australian deputy prime minister
Mark McGowan (Australian politician)	13 July 1967		A gray politician who came to prominence during the COVID-19 deep event. The tyrannical Premier of Western Australia.
Lionel Murphy	30 August 1922	21 October 1986
Kim Beazley Sr.	30 September 1917		Australian Labor Party politician with very close ties to the intelligence services. Mentioned as part of Australia/VIPaedophile, where he allegedly ‘ran kids for ASIO’ as part of what appeared to be a ‘dirty tricks’ counter-intelligence operation.
Henry Tsang	6 November 1943
Gough Whitlam	11 July 1916	21 October 2014	An Australian Prime minister who tried to tread an independent path and rein in the nascent SDS. Ousted in 1975 by a CIA backed coup.
Penny Wong	5 November 1968		Australian foreign minister
Neville Wran	11 October 1926	20 April 2014	Premier of New South Wales 1976-1986. In the pocket of crime boss Abe Saffron.

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