Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) | |
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| Leader | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
| Deputy Leader | Jackie Trad |
| President | John Battams |
| Secretary | Julie-Anne Campbell |
| Headquarters | 16 Peel St, South Brisbane |
| Youth wing | Queensland Young Labor |
| National affiliation | Australian Labor Party |
| Queensland Legislative Assembly |
48 / 93
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Australian House of Representatives (Qld seats) |
8 / 30
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Australian Senate (Qld seats) |
4 / 12
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The Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), commonly known as Queensland Labor is the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party.
Trade unionists in Queensland had begun attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway, the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful campaign as an independent in an 1886 by-election. A Workers' Political Reform Association was founded to nominate candidates for the 1888 election, at which the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council endorsed six candidates. Thomas Glassey won the seat of Bundamba at that election, becoming the first self-identified "labor" MP in Queensland. The Queensland Provincial Council of the Australian Labor Federation was formed in 1889 in an attempt to unite Labor campaign efforts. Tommy Ryan won the seat of Barcoo for the labour movement-run People's Parliamentary Association in 1892, and the Labor Party was formally established in Queensland following the first Labor-in-Politics Convention later that year.
The Queensland branch subsequently formed the first Labor government in Australia, albeit briefly, when Anderson Dawson took office for a week in 1899 after a falling out between the non-Labor forces.
The following figures have served as parliamentary leader of the Queensland state Labor Party:
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