Australian Labor Party
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Australian Labor Party
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| Leader | Bill Shorten |
| Deputy Leader | Tanya Plibersek |
| President | Mark Butler |
| National Secretary | Noah Carroll |
| Founded | 8 May 1901 |
| Headquarters | 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Barton, Australian Capital Territory |
| Newspaper | The Labor Herald |
| Youth wing | Australian Young Labor |
| Membership (2014) |
 53,930 |
| International affiliation | Progressive Alliance |
| Colours | |
| House of Representatives |
69 / 150
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| Senate |
26 / 76
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| Website | |
| www |
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State Lower House Seats
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| NSW Parliament |
34 / 93
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| VIC Parliament |
47 / 88
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| QLD Parliament |
42 / 89
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| WA Parliament |
21 / 59
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| SA Parliament |
24 / 47
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| TAS Parliament |
7 / 25
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Territory Assembly Seats
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| ACT Assembly |
12 / 25
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| NT Assembly |
18 / 25
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia. The party has been in opposition at federal level since the 2013 election. Bill Shorten has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since 13 October 2013. The party is a federal party with branches in each state and territory. Labor is in government in the states of Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state (and sometimes local) levels.
Labor's constitution states: "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields". This "socialist objective" was introduced in 1921, but has since been qualified by two further objectives: "maintenance of and support for a competitive non-monopolistic private sector" and "the right to own private property". Labor governments have not attempted the "democratic socialisation" of any industry since the 1940s, when the Chifley government failed to nationalise the private banks, and in fact have privatised several industries such as aviation and banking. Labor's current National Platform describes the party as "a modern social democratic party", "the party of opportunity and security for working people" and "a party of active government".
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