Labor Unity
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Labor Right
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|---|---|
| Student wing | Student Unity |
| Youth wing | Young Labor Right |
| National affiliation | Labor Party |
| Colours | Red |
| House of Representatives |
24 / 150
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| Senate |
10 / 76
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The Labor Right is the organised right-wing faction of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) at the national level that tends to be more economically liberal and socially conservative than the Labor Left faction. Labor Right is a broad alliance of various state right and centre leaning factions, which in some State branches are called Labor Unity, in Victoria and New South Wales they are called Centre Unity and in Queensland it is Labor Forum.
Factional power usually finds expression in the percentage vote of aligned delegates at party conferences. The power of the Labor Right varies from state to state, but it usually relies on certain trade unions, such as the centrist Australian Workers' Union (AWU), National Union of Workers (NUW) and Transport Workers Union (TWU) as well as the socially conservative Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). These unions send faction-aligned delegates to conference, with delegates usually coming from the membership or administration of the union or from local branches their activists cover.
The Right is currently the dominant faction in the Labor party on a national level. The Labor Right faction also holds a majority on the party's National Executive. The usual arrangement is that the federal leader of the party is from the Right, while the deputy leader is from the Left, although former federal Labor leader and Prime Minister Julia Gillard was from the Left with support of the Right. Historically, most state Labor Premiers have been associated with the Right; there have been some exceptions, such as former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, former New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees, former Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings, current Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and current South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill all coming from their respective state Left factions.
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