Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)

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Australian Labor Party
(South Australian Branch)
Leader
Peter Malinauskas
Deputy Leader
Susan Close
President
Katrine Hildyard
Secretary
Reggie Martin [1]
Founded
1891
Headquarters
141 Gilles Street, Adelaide
Youth wing
South Australian Young Labor
National affiliation
Australian Labor Party
SA House of Assembly

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SA Legislative Council

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Australian House of Representatives
(SA seats)


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Australian Senate
(SA seats)


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Website

sa.alp.org.au

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The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as SA Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division).


Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election. Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election.


Labor's most notable historic Premiers of South Australia include Thomas Price in the 1900s, Don Dunstan in the 1970s and John Bannon in the 1980s.




Contents





  • 1 Formation


  • 2 Premiers


  • 3 Deputy Premiers


  • 4 List of parliamentary leaders


  • 5 Current federal parliamentarians

    • 5.1 Lower


    • 5.2 Upper



  • 6 Historic party officials


  • 7 State election results


  • 8 See also


  • 9 References


  • 10 External links




Formation




ULP parliamentarians following the 1893 colonial election.


A United Trades and Labor Council meeting with the purpose of creating an elections committee was convened on 12 December 1890, and held on 7 January 1891. The elections committee was formed, officially named the United Labor Party of South Australia (unlike state Labor, prior to 1912 their federal counterparts included the 'u' in their spelling of Labour) with John McPherson the founding secretary. Four months later, Labor enjoyed immediate success, electing David Charleston, Robert Guthrie and Andrew Kirkpatrick to the South Australian Legislative Council. A week later, Richard Hooper won the 1891 Wallaroo by-election as an Independent Labor member in the South Australian House of Assembly. McPherson won the 1892 East Adelaide by-election on 23 January, becoming the first official Labor leader and member of the House of Assembly.


Prior to party creation, South Australian politics had lacked parties or solid groupings, although loose liberal and conservative blocs had begun to develop by the end of the 1880s. The 1893 election was the first general election Labor would stand at, resulting in liberal and conservative leaning MPs beginning to divide, additionally with unidentified groupings and independents, as well as the subsequent formation of the staunchly anti-Labor National Defence League. The voluntary turnout rate increased from 53 to 68 percent, with Labor on 19 percent of the vote, and 10 Labor candidates including McPherson and Hooper were elected to the 54-member House of Assembly which gave Labor the balance of power. The Kingston liberal government was formed with the support of Labor, ousting the Downer conservative government. Kingston served as Premier for a then-record of six and a half years, usually implementing legislation with Labor support.


Thomas Price formed the state's first Labor minority government and the world's first stable Labor Party government at the 1905 election with the support of several non-Labor MPs to form the Price-Peake administration, which was re-elected at the 1906 double dissolution election, with Labor falling just two seats short of a majority. So successful, John Verran led Labor to form the state's first of many majority governments at the 1910 election, just two weeks after the 1910 federal election where their federal counterparts formed Australia's first elected majority in either house in the Parliament of Australia, the world's first Labor Party majority government at a national level, and after the 1904 Chris Watson minority government the world's second Labor Party government at a national level.[2][3][4]


Known as the United Labor Party of South Australia until 1917, the Australian Labor Party at both a state/colony and federal level pre-dates, among others, both the British Labour Party and the New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation.[5]



Premiers




Parliamentary Party Leader


Peter Malinauskas.jpg

Incumbent
Peter Malinauskas

since 9 April 2018

Inaugural holder
John McPherson

Thirteen of the nineteen parliamentary Labor leaders have served as Premier of South Australia: Thomas Price (1905–1909), John Verran (1910–1912), Crawford Vaughan (1915–1917), John Gunn (1924–1926), Lionel Hill (1926–1927 and 1930–1931; expelled from party but continued as Premier until 1933), Frank Walsh (1965–1967), Don Dunstan (1967–1968 and 1970–1979), Des Corcoran (1979), John Bannon (1982–1992), Lynn Arnold (1992–1993), Mike Rann (2002–2011) and Jay Weatherill (2011–2018). Robert Richards was Premier in 1933 while leading the rebel Parliamentary Labor Party of MPs who had been expelled in the 1931 Labor split; he would later be readmitted and lead the party in opposition. Bannon is Labor's longest-serving Premier of South Australia, ahead of Rann and Dunstan by a matter of weeks. Every Labor leader for more than half a century has gone on to serve as Premier.



Deputy Premiers


Since the position's formal introduction in 1968, seven parliamentary Labor deputy leaders have served as Deputy Premier of South Australia: Des Corcoran (1968 and 1970–1979), Hugh Hudson (1979), Jack Wright (1982–1985), Don Hopgood (1985–1992), Frank Blevins (1992–1993), Kevin Foley (2002–2011) and John Rau (2011–present). Foley is the state's longest-serving Deputy Premier.



List of parliamentary leaders



  • John McPherson (1892–1897)


  • Lee Batchelor (1897–1899)


  • Thomas Price (1899–1909)


  • John Verran (1909–1913)


  • Crawford Vaughan (1913–1917)


  • Andrew Kirkpatrick (1917–1918)


  • John Gunn (1918–1926)


  • Lionel Hill (1926–1931)


  • Edgar Dawes (1931–1933)


  • Andrew Lacey (1933–1938)


  • Robert Richards (1938–1949)


  • Mick O'Halloran (1949–1960)


  • Frank Walsh (1960–1967)


  • Don Dunstan (1967–1979)


  • Des Corcoran (1979)


  • John Bannon (1979–1992)


  • Lynn Arnold (1992–1994)


  • Mike Rann (1994–2011)


  • Jay Weatherill (2011–2018)


  • Peter Malinauskas (2018–present)


Current federal parliamentarians



Lower



  • Kate Ellis – Adelaide MP since 2004


  • Mark Butler – Port Adelaide MP since 2007


  • Nick Champion – Wakefield MP since 2007


  • Amanda Rishworth – Kingston MP since 2007


  • Tony Zappia – Makin MP since 2007


  • Steve Georganas – Hindmarsh MP since 2016


Upper



  • Penny Wong – Senator since 2002


  • Alex Gallacher – Senator since 2011


  • Don Farrell – Senator since 2016


Historic party officials


  • Elizabeth Rose Hanretty


State election results








































































































































































































































































































Election
Seats won
±
Total votes
%
Position
Leader

1893


10 / 54



Increase10
16,458
18.8%
Third party

John McPherson

1896


12 / 54



Increase2
39,107
24.3%
Third party

John McPherson

1899


11 / 54



Decrease1
40,756
25.4%
Third party

Lee Batchelor

1902


5 / 42



Decrease6
48,515
19.9%
Opposition

Thomas Price

1905


15 / 42



Increase10
148,550
41.3%
Minority government

Thomas Price

1906


20 / 42



Increase5
143,577
44.8%
Minority government

Thomas Price

1910


22 / 42



Increase2
197,935
49.1%
Majority government

John Verran

1912


16 / 40



Decrease6
253,163
46.7%
Opposition

John Verran

1915


26 / 46



Increase10
153,034
45.9%
Majority government

Crawford Vaughan

1918


17 / 46



Decrease9
145,093
44.7%
Opposition

Andrew Kirkpatrick

1921


16 / 46



Decrease1
179,308
44.6%
Opposition

John Gunn

1924


27 / 46



Increase11
192,256
48.4%
Majority government

John Gunn

1927


16 / 46



Decrease11
243,450
47.9%
Opposition

Lionel Hill

1930


30 / 46



Increase14
102,194
48.6%
Majority government

Lionel Hill

1933


6 / 46



Decrease24
48,273
27.8%
Opposition

Edgar Dawes

1938


9 / 39



Increase3
57,124
26.1%
Opposition

Andrew Lacey

1941


11 / 39



Increase2
56,062
33.3%
Opposition

Robert Richards

1944


16 / 39



Increase5
105,298
42.5%
Opposition

Robert Richards

1947


13 / 39



Decrease3
133,959
48.6%
Opposition

Robert Richards

1950


12 / 39



Decrease1
134,952
48.1%
Opposition

Mick O'Halloran

1953


14 / 39



Increase2
166,517
50.9%
Opposition

Mick O'Halloran

1956


15 / 39



Increase1
129,853
47.4%
Opposition

Mick O'Halloran

1959


17 / 39



Increase2
191,933
49.3%
Opposition

Mick O'Halloran

1962


19 / 39



Increase2
219,790
53.9%
Opposition

Frank Walsh

1965


21 / 39



Increase2
274,432
55.0%
Majority government

Frank Walsh

1968


19 / 39



Decrease2
292,445
51.9%
Opposition

Don Dunstan

1970


27 / 47



Increase8
305,478
51.6%
Majority government

Don Dunstan

1973


26 / 47



Decrease1
324,135
51.5%
Majority government

Don Dunstan

1975


23 / 47



Decrease3
321,481
46.3%
Majority government

Don Dunstan

1977


27 / 47



Increase4
383,831
51.6%
Majority government

Don Dunstan

1979


20 / 47



Decrease7
300,277
40.8%
Opposition

Des Corcoran

1982


24 / 47



Increase5
353,999
46.3%
Majority government

John Bannon

1985


27 / 47



Increase3
393,652
48.2%
Majority government

John Bannon

1989


22 / 47



Decrease5
346,268
40.1%
Minority government

John Bannon

1993


10 / 47



Decrease12
277,038
30.4%
Opposition

Lynn Arnold

1997


21 / 47



Increase11
312,929
35.2%
Opposition

Mike Rann

2002


23 / 47



Increase2
344,559
36.4%
Minority government

Mike Rann

2006


28 / 47



Increase5
424,715
45.2%
Majority government

Mike Rann

2010


26 / 47



Decrease2
367,480
37.5%
Majority government

Mike Rann

2014


23 / 47



Decrease3
364,420
35.8%
Minority government

Jay Weatherill

2018


19 / 47



Decrease4
343,896
32.8%
Opposition

Peter Malinauskas

Note: Following the 2014 election, the Labor minority government won the 2014 Fisher by-election which took them to 24 of 47 seats and therefore majority government. Prior to the 2018 election, a Labor MP became an independent, reducing them back to a minority 23 seats.



See also


  • Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2018–2022

  • Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2018–2022

  • Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division)


  • Playmander, the 1936−1968 electoral malapportionment

  • Rann Government

  • South Australian state election, 2018

  • South Australian state election, 2022

  • List of elections in South Australia


References




  1. ^ Owen, Michael (17 July 2015). "Labor's South Australian candidates line up for preselection". The Australian. Retrieved 6 September 2015. 


  2. ^ History of South Australian elections 1857-2006, volume 1 - ECSA


  3. ^ Sound of Trumpets: History of the Labour Movement in South Australia - By Jim Moss


  4. ^ Why did a 'labour movement' emerge in South Australia in the 1880s? - By Nicholas Klar


  5. ^ "Australian Labor Party". AustralianPolitics.com. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2014. 




External links


  • Policies: sa.alp.org.au

  • Policy Archive: premier.sa.gov.au

  • Media Releases: premier.sa.gov.au









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