Australia: Liberal-National coalition wins government – Labor’s vote at lowest in over 100 years!
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- Written by: Fred Weston and Tom Mulcahy in Sydney
In last week’s elections the Australian Labor Party (ALP) suffered a historic defeat, with its lowest primary vote since 1903, at just 33.8 percent. In 2007 the ALP won 43.4%, but since then there have been six years of Labor governments, first under Rudd and then Gillard, in which the working class saw the party they had voted for implement policies demanded by big business while real wages stagnated.
Australia: Battle for the Soul of the ALP or a Changing of the Guard?
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- Written by: Harry Richardson
The recent crushing defeat of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the Federal Election and the election of a viciously right-wing Liberal-National Coalition government has opened up a period of soul-searching in the Australian labor movement.