In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote is the result of an opinion poll or a projection of an election result in which preferences are distributed between the two major parties, being th
Stephen Bates won the Division of Brisbane despite placing third on primary votes. A three-candidate-preferred count showed he had overtaken second-placed Madonna Jarrett.
The Australian Labor Party is the major social democratic political party in Australia. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum, it is the oldest active party in the country, having been
Anderson Dawson's ministry leaving Parliament House, Brisbane, after being sworn in on 1 December 1899. His was the first government formed by a Labour party in the world.
Group photograph of federal Labour Party MPs elected to the House of Representatives and Senate at the inaugural 1901 election
Labor Party policy launch before a crowd in the Sydney Domain on 24 November 1975
Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales and Leader of NSW Labor