Democratic Labour Party (Australia)
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Democratic Labour Party
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| President | Rosemary Lorrimar |
| Secretary | Stephen Campbell |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Melbourne VIC 3001 |
| Youth wing | Young Democratic Labour Association (YDLA) |
| Ideology |
Social conservatism, Distributism |
| Colours |
Orange and Charcoal |
| Victorian Legislative Council |
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| www.dlp.org.au/ | |
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is a political party in Australia of the labour tradition that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first DLP Senator in decades and a blacksmith by trade, John Madigan was elected for a six-year term to the Australian Senate with 2.3 per cent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal election, who served from July 2011, before resigning from the party and becoming an independent in September 2014, citing long-term internal party tensions.
In the 2014 Victorian state election the DLP won a seat in the Legislative Council, with Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins being elected a member for Western Metropolitan.
On 27 June 2013, the Australian Electoral Commission approved a change in the spelling of the party's name from "Democratic Labor Party" to "Democratic Labour Party"—with the party stating that the change reflected the "correct Australian spelling" of the word 'labour', and also differentiated it from the Australian Labor Party.
On 23 April 2015 the party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission for 'failure to demonstrate requisite 500 members to maintain registration'. On 1 March 2016, the Australian Electoral commission upheld an appeal by the DLP against its deregistration and reregistered it. The DLP has proven it has at least 500 members in Victoria alone and is registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission.
The DLP has its origins in the historical Democratic Labor Party, a conservative Catholic-based anti-communist political party which existed from the 1955 split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) until the 1978 DLP vote for dissolution, and which until 1974 played an important role in Australian politics. The Australian Electoral Commission considers the current DLP to be legally the same as the earlier DLP, and so the party was not affected by laws from the John Howard era (1996–2007) which deregistered parties which had never had a parliamentary presence and prohibited party names that include words from another party's name. A party named the Democratic Labor Party or Democratic Labour Party has competed in all elections since 1955.
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