National Labor Party
National Labor Party | |
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Leader | Nationalist Party of Australia |
Headquarters | Canberra |
Ideology | Australian nationalism Interventionism Social democracy |
Political position | Centre-left |
House of Representatives | 14 / 75 (1916-1917) |
WA Legislative Assembly | 9 / 50 (March 1917) |
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The National Labor Party was formed by
Formation
On 15 September 1916, the executive of the Political Labour League (the Labor Party organisation in New South Wales at the time) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party.
When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members; the remaining 43 members of Caucus then passed their motion of no confidence in the leadership, effectively expelling Hughes and the other members.
Hughes and his followers, who included several early Labor leaders, formed a minority government supported by the
In 1917, Hughes and Cook turned their confidence-and-supply agreement into a formal party, the
The National Labor Party was never formally constituted itself as a party and had no organisational structure, although some trade union officials and Labor Party branches, particularly in Western Australia and Tasmania, supported it.
Queensland
The Labor Party avoided a split in Queensland due to the efforts of T. J. Ryan to minimise losses.[1] Only one member of the state parliament, John Adamson, left the party and initially there was no attempt to create an alternate vehicle at the state level. However in October 1919, Adamson was part of the formation of a party for ex-Labor supporters that used the name.[2] It had no electoral success and soon disappeared.[3]
Western Australia
The National Labor movement in Western Australia started off as two separate groups—one known as the Labor Solidarity Committee based out of Trades Hall in
The party scored six of 50 Assembly seats in each of the 1917 and 1921 elections, and held three of 30 Council seats during this period. However, in the 1924 elections, their representation was reduced to one in the Assembly and two in the Council—many through the defeat of sitting NLP members by Labor candidates—and later that year, what remained of the Party was subsumed by the Nationalists.
Members of parliament
House of Representatives
1916–1917
- William Archibald (Hindmarsh)
- Fred Bamford (Herbert)
- Reginald Burchell (Fremantle)
- Ernest Carr (Macquarie)
- John Chanter (Riverina)
- George Dankel (Boothby)
- Billy Hughes (West Sydney)
- Jens Jensen (Bass)
- John Lynch (Werriwa)
- Alexander Poynton (Grey)
- William Laird Smith (Denison)
- William Spence (Darling)
- Josiah Thomas (Barrier)
- William Webster (Gwydir)
See also
- Politics of Australia
- Political parties in Australia
References
- ISBN 9780702222894.
- ^ "20 Oct 1919 - THE DAILY MIRROR". Trove. 20 October 1919. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ Irving, Baiba; Schedvin, Bernie (May 1973). "A Confidential Report on Nationalist Organisation in Queensland, 1920". Queensland Heritage. 2 (8): 15n.
Bibliography
- Australian Dictionary of Biography - Billy Hughes
- Robertson, John R. (1958). The Scaddan government and the conscription crisis, 1911-17 : aspects of Western Australia's political history (thesis). University of Western Australia. Accessed in Special Collections, Reid Library, UWA.
- Cusack, Danny. (2002). With an olive branch and a shillelagh: The political career of Senator Paddy Lynch (1867-1944) (thesis). Murdoch University. Accessed via Murdoch Digital Theses.