Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party also shortly known as ALP. This party has been in resistant at federal level since the election in 2013. the party is a federal party with in each state and territory. Labor is currently in control of the government of Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and in the Australian Capital Territory. The labor party challenges against the Liberal for political office at the federal and state levels. The party's federal parliamentary leader is Bill Shorten since 13 October

When you think of the “land down under” you don’t really think of the kind of government they have. I chose to write about the Australian government because I really don’t hear much about Australia. It currently has a pretty interesting story to tell when it comes to their government. I became a bit interested in Australian politics when I saw a political animated cartoon on the internet that depicted Kevin Rudd, the last Prime Minister, on a news television show and it was quite humorous. I am going

The three major political parties in Australia are the Australian Liberal party, the Labor party and the Green party. Each of these parties present their main beliefs or policies to the citizens of Australia in order to gain their vote. The Australian Labor party (ALP) was founded on the 8th of May 1901 they have been in power twelve times since then. The party leader now is currently Opposition Leader Bill Shorten Labor’s two major policies are: setting up a Banking Royal Commission and saving Medicare

The Labor Party stands for or its ‘driving mission’ is to apply democratic socialism in Australia. To me, I believe that means that the government has an important part in making sure that as a right of residency in Australia we all have health care, or being able to go to university without paying loads of money and going into debt. Also a government that is not lead by big money interests. Policies: “Coding in Every Australian School” The Labor Party thinks that coding is the knowledge of the

The Australian Labor Party is Australia's oldest political party. I will be comparing the Australian labor party and the liberal party and the greens. In the following paragraph, I will write about the labor party views on common issues in society such as gay marriage, health, and education, in the last paragraph, I compare the differences that the labor party has against another party such as the liberal and the greens. The labor party views on education are to Increased public school funding

The Australian Labor Party is the oldest Australian party which was formed. It was created in 1890 by workers who banded together to fight for the unemployed and for better working conditions. This is why the Labor party has always had strong links with various trade unions. The Labor Party had been in opposition for 11 years before they were elected for Government in 2007 which means that they were Government for a much shorter amount of time compared to The Liberal Party. The Australian Labor

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national health scheme. In the same year, 1972, Gough Whitlam kept his promise and withdrew the Australian troops from the War at Vietnam. Gough had already addressed peace with Vietnam in 1965. Picture of Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam gave land back to the Aboriginals and said “ We will legislate to give aboriginals land rights - not just because their case is beyond argument, but because all of us as Australians are diminished while the aborigines are denied their rightful place in this nation.” On the

dignity first is integral. Whilst both political parties have very similar policies in regards to the topical issues, which are in essence going partially against the Church’s stance and human dignity. Australia has the economy, land, low population and living style to support more asylum seekers/refugees, especially when we have a ranking of 48 in the world on the scale of how many refugees we currently have accepted. With both political parties having fairly similar opinions on the refugee situation

context of Australian political history however, ‘Multiculturalism’ can be viewed as a national ideology- a policy and framework that has guided and strengthened the cultural development of a unique Island Nation. Designed to embrace and promote unity amongst diversity, Australian Multiculturalism seeks to ensure that all Australians are simultaneously assured the right to maintain their culture, whilst committing to their responsibilities of accepting others and obeying the Australian law. Therefore