Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)

This article is about the current branch of the Australian Labor Party. For the defunct right–wing Labor organisation that existed during the 1930s, see Australian Labor Party (NSW). For the defunct left–wing Labor organisation that existed during the 1940s, see State Labor Party. For the defunct right–wing Labor organisation that existed during 1940–1941, see Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist). For the defunct right–wing Labor organisation that split from Labor in 1955, see Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist).

Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)

President	Mark Lennon
General Secretary	Kaila Murnain
Leader	Luke Foley
Deputy Leader	Michael Daley
Founded	1891
Headquarters	Level 9, 377 - 383 Sussex St Sydney, New South Wales
Youth wing	Australian Young Labor
National affiliation	Australian Labor Party
NSW Legislative Assembly	34 / 93
NSW Legislative Council	14 / 42
Australian House of Reps (NSW seats)	24 / 47
Australian Senate (NSW seats)	5 / 12
NSW Local Councillors	164 / 1,480
Website
www.nswlabor.org.au
Politics of Australia Political parties Elections

The Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), also known as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. The party factions have a strong influence on the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus (and party factions) and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement. Barrie Unsworth, for example, was elected party leader while a member of the Legislative Council. He then transferred to the Assembly by winning a seat at a by-election.

When the Labor party wins sufficient seats to be able to control a majority in the Legislative Assembly, the party leader becomes the State Premier and Labor will form the government. When Labor is the largest party not in government, the party leader becomes the Leader of the Opposition. To become a Premier or Opposition Leader, the party leader must be or within a short period of time become a member of the Legislative Assembly.

History

Early history

The New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, known as the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales from 1891 to 1917, first won 35 of the 141 seats in the New South Wales parliament at the 1891 election. The initial caucus voted against appointing a leader and the party was directed by a steering committee of 5 members until, following a request from the party's extra-parliamentary executive, Joseph Cook was elected as the first leader in 1893. Cook left the party in the following year when he was obliged to sign a pledge that he would support all caucus decisions in parliament. James McGowen, who signed the pledge, succeeded Cook as party leader in 1894. At the 1894 state election Labor representation was reduced to 18. After the 1898 election, Labor held the balance of power with George Reid's Protectionist Government being dependent on Labor to push through New South Wales' adoption of Federation. McGowen's support for Federation was critical to Labor maintaining its support for the adoption of measures to implement Federation, even though the party remained opposed to the adopted Constitution, which it saw as biased in favour of business interests.

First Government in New South Wales

At the 1910 election the Labor Party first won government in New South Wales with a slim majority of 46 of 90 seats, and McGowen was premier from 1910-13. He was deposed by his deputy William Holman after McGowen attempted to break a gas workers' strike by threatening to replace strikers with non-union labour.

Conscription split

The conscription issue divided the Labor Party and wider Australian community in 1916. While much of the Australian labour movement and general community was opposed to conscription, Australian Labor Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Premier Holman strongly supported conscription, and both crossed the floor to vote with the conservative parties, and both were expelled from the Labor Party. Ernest Durack became state party leader, while Holman formed a coalition on 15 November 1916 with the leader of the opposition Liberal Reform Party, Charles Wade, with himself as Premier. Early in 1917, Holman and his supporters merged with Liberal Reform to form the state branch of the Nationalist Party of Australia, with Holman as leader. At the 1917 election, the Nationalists won a huge victory. During his leadership of the Nationalist Government, Holman vigorously defended the government-owned enterprises from his fellow conservatives in power. Durack's leadership lasted only for about three months, and he was succeeded by John Storey in February 1917. At the 1920 election, Holman and his Nationalists were thrown from office in a massive swing, being succeeded by a Labor Government led by Storey. Labor won the 1920 election with a majority of one.

Dooley-Storey era

On Storey's death in October 1921, James Dooley became leader of the party and premier. His government was defeated on the floor of the House on 13 December 1921, but new Premier George Fuller lost a vote within seven hours of his appointment, and Dooley regained power. He lost the 1922 election to Fuller in a highly sectarian election campaign.^[1] As the result of a dispute with a party executive, dominated by the Australian Workers' Union, Dooley was expelled from the party in February 1923 and replaced by Greg McGirr as leader, but the Federal Executive intervened and appointed Bill Dunn as an interim leader until Jack Lang was elected by the caucus.^[2]

Lang era

Lang led the ALP to victory in the 1925 election and became Premier. His support in the caucus was challenged in 1926 and in that year the party's annual State Conference, which strongly supported Lang, assumed the right to select the leader instead of caucus. The following year Lang and his extra-parliamentary allies drastically altered the party rules so that State Conference delegates and members of the Central Executive were elected in a complicated group system.^[3] The ALP was defeated at the 1927 election but won in a landslide at the 1930 election.

Lang opposed the Premiers' Plan to combat the Great Depression agreed to by the federal Labor government of James Scullin and the other state Premiers, who called for even more stringent cuts to government spending to balance the budget. In October 1931 Lang's followers in the federal House of Representatives crossed the floor to vote with the conservative United Australia Party and bring down the Scullin government. This action split the NSW Labor Party in two - Lang's followers became known as Lang Labor, while Scullin's supporters, led by Chifley, became known in NSW as Federal Labor. Most of the party's branches and affiliated trade unions supported Lang. Furthermore, Lang's persistence with his plan led to the Lang Dismissal Crisis in 1931-32 which led to his dismissal as premier by the State Governor on 13 May 1932. The Governor appointed the UAP leader, Bertram Stevens, as premier and Stevens immediately called the 1932 election, at which Labor was heavily defeated. Lang continued as party leader until 1939, when he was deposed when caucus regained the power to elect its leader in 1939.

McKell and post-war era

William McKell became party leader, reuniting and rejuvenating the party. Under his leadership the extreme left wing of the party had been expelled andhad contested the 1941 election as the far left wing State Labor Party. McKell led Labor to a convincing victory and became Premier. State Labor's poor showing had resulted in its dissolution shortly after the election. During World War II McKell became a close collaborator of Labor Prime Ministers John Curtin and Ben Chifley, being a particularly close friend of the latter. Labor unity was again threatened by Jack Lang who had been expelled from the Labor Party in 1943 and formed another version of the Lang Labor Party. On this occasion he received no support from the rest of the caucus and spent the rest of the term as the sole member. At the 1944 election McKell won another victory, the first time a New South Wales Labor government had been re-elected. On early 1947 he resigned and announced acceptance of appointment as Governor General.^[4] James McGirr was elected leader and premier and led Labor to another victory at the 1947 election. McGirr nearly lost the 1950 election and was replaced in 1952 by Joseph Cahill.

Labor in Government, 1952–1965

Cahill decisively won the 1953 election. He was desperate to keep the New South Wales branch of the ALP united despite the sectarian and ideological split that resulted in the formation of the right-wing Democratic Labor Party in 1954. He achieved this by controlling the anti-DLP faction in his party. The DLP did not contest the 1956 election, which Labor won. Cahill was returned in the 1959 election, but died in office later that year. He was succeeded as leader and premier by Robert Heffron. Heffron continued the Labor reign in New South Wales winning the 1962 election. Heffron resigned the leadership and premiership in 1964, and was succeeded by Jack Renshaw, who lost the premiership at the 1965 election ending 24 years of Labor power in the state.

Opposition, 1965–1976

Renshaw also lost the 1968 election, after which he resigned the leadership, to be succeeded by Patrick Hills. Hills lost the 1971 and 1973 election after which he was deposed by Neville Wran.

Wran-Unsworth era, 1976–1988

Wran narrowly won the 1976 election and remained premier until 1986. He was succeeded by Barrie Unsworth who took over the premiership until Labor's loss at the 1988 election, after which he resigned.

Carr era and beyond, 1988–2011

Bob Carr became leader in 1988 and led Labor to victory in the 1995 election. Carr was premier for 10 years, before resigning in 2005. Carr was succeeded by Morris Iemma, who led Labor to victory in the 2007 election, before resigning in 2008 after his Centre Unity faction withdrew its backing. He was succeeded by Nathan Rees, who was leader and premier for only 15 months, before he was deposed by Kristina Keneally, who resigned after Labor lost at the 2011 election. She was succeeded by John Robertson. He resigned in December 2014. On 5 January 2015 Luke Foley was elected leader.

Attempted party reforms

Between 2009 and 2014, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) began or completed a series of investigations into the behaviours of a number of Labor politicians, including Angela D'Amore,^[5] Tony Kelly,^[6] Ian Macdonald,^[7]^[8]^[9] Eddie Obeid,^[10]^[11]^[12] Karyn Paluzzano,^[13]^[14] and Joe Tripodi.^[11] The ICAC made a series of adverse findings against all six politicians, although Paluzzano was the only one to face criminal charges. For bringing the party into disrepute, Kelly had his membership of Labor terminated in 2011;^[15]^[16] both Macdonald and Obeid had their membership terminated in 2013;^[17] and Tripodi suffered the same fate in 2014.^[11]^[12] Other investigations and criminal charges were laid against Craig Thomson, a federal politician from New South Wales, and Michael Williamson, a senior Labor official, also from New South Wales. Both Thomson and Williamson were adversely implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair. Their membership of NSW Labor was terminated in 2014.^[18]^[19]

Seeking to stamp out perceived corruption and factional infighting, Senator John Faulkner began a process of reforms that proposed to include rank–and–file members in decisions such as the selection of candidates for Senate and Legislative Council vacancies and party tickets, and a vote in the direct election of the New South Wales parliamentary leaders.^[20] However, Faulkner's reform proposals were mostly rejected at NSW Labor's 2014 conference.^[21] The direct election of party leader gained support with effect from after the 2015 election.^[22]

List of parliamentary leaders

#	Party leader	Assumed office	Left office	Premier	Reason for departure	Notes
1	Steering Committee of 5	July 1891	October 1893		Caucus decision to elect a leader
2	Joseph Cook	October 1893	25 June 1894		Left Labor Party
3	James McGowen	July 1894	30 June 1913	1910–1913	Deposed
4	William Holman	30 June 1913	15 November 1916	1913–1920 (as a member of a Nationalist government after 1916)	Expelled from Labor Party
5	Ernest Durack	15 November 1916	21 February 1917		Resigned
6	John Storey	21 February 1917	5 October 1921	1920–1921	Died in office
7	James Dooley	5 October 1921	31 July 1923	1921–1921; 1921–1922	Expelled from the party by State Executive
*	Greg McGirr	9 March 1923	16 April 1923		Imposed by State Executive
*	Bill Dunn	16 April 1923	31 July 1923		Imposed by Federal executive
8	Jack Lang	31 July 1923	5 September 1938	1925–1927; 1930–1932	Deposed as Labor Leader following a vote by Caucus	^[23]
9	William McKell	5 September 1938	6 February 1947	1941–1947	Resigned as Premier, Labor Leader, and as the Member for Redfern to become Governor General	^[24]
10	James McGirr	6 February 1947	3 April 1952	1947–1952	Resigned as Premier, Labor Leader, and as the Member for Liverpool	^[25]
11	Joseph Cahill	3 April 1952	22 October 1959	1952–1959	Died in office as a result of a myocardial infarction	^[26]
12	Robert Heffron	23 October 1959	30 April 1964	1959–1964	Resigned as Premier and Labor Leader; remained as the Member for Maroubra	^[27]
13	Jack Renshaw	30 April 1964	1968	1964–1965	Resigned
14	Patrick Hills	1968	1973		Deposed following the 1973 election
15	Neville Wran	1973	4 July 1986	1976–1986	Resigned as Premier, Labor Leader, and as the Member for Bass Hill	^[28]
16	Barrie Unsworth	4 July 1986	11 April 1988	1986–1988	Resigned as Labor Leader following the 1988 election; remained as the Member for Rockdale	^[29]
17	Bob Carr	11 April 1988	3 August 2005	1995–2005	Resigned as Premier, Labor Leader, and as the Member for Maroubra	^[30]
18	Morris Iemma	3 August 2005	5 September 2008	2005–2008	Resigned as Premier and Labor Leader; remained as the Member for Lakemba	^[31]
19	Nathan Rees	5 September 2008	3 December 2009	2008–2009	Deposed as Labor Leader following a vote by Caucus; remained as the Member for Toongabbie	^[32]
20	Kristina Keneally	3 December 2009	31 March 2011	2009–2011	Resigned as Labor Leader following the 2011 election; remained as the Member for Heffron	^[33]
21	John Robertson	31 March 2011	23 December 2014		Resigned as Labor Leader in the aftermath of the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis; remained as the Member for Blacktown	^[34]
*	Linda Burney	23 December 2014	5 January 2015		Interim leader during run-up to 2015 leadership spill
22	Luke Foley	5 January 2015	Incumbent

List of deputy parliamentary leaders

Deputy Party leader	Assumed office	Left office	Deputy Premier	Reason for departure
Unknown	1893	1923
Jack Baddeley	1923	1949	1941–1949
Joseph Cahill	1949	1952	1949–1952
Robert Heffron	1953	1959	1953–1959
Jack Renshaw	1959	1964	1959–1964
Pat Hills	1964	1968	1964–1965
Syd Einfeld	1968	1973
Jack Ferguson	1973	10 February 1984 (1984-02-10)	1976–1984	Retired from politics
Ron Mulock	10 February 1984 (1984-02-10)	25 March 1988 (1988-03-25)	1984–1988	Resigned following the 1988 election
Andrew Refshauge	11 April 1988 (1988-04-11)	3 August 2005 (2005-08-03)	1995–2005	Retired from politics
John Watkins	10 August 2005 (2005-08-10)	3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)	2005–2008	Retired from politics
Carmel Tebbutt	5 September 2008 (2008-09-05)	28 March 2011 (2011-03-28)	2008–2011	Resigned following the 2011 election
Linda Burney	28 March 2011 (2011-03-28)	7 March 2015 (2015-03-07)		Resigned following announcement to run for the federal seat of Barton at the 2016 election
Michael Daley	7 March 2015 (2015-03-07)	incumbent

Executive leaders

Presidents

President	Period
Frederick Flowers	1895–1898
Frederick Flowers	1906–1907
Ernest Farrar	1912–1914
Richard Meagher	1914–1915
John Daniel FitzGerald	1915–1916
Jack Power	1921–1923
Albert Willis	1923–1925
Francis Buckley	1951–1952
Charlie Oliver	1960–1971
John Ducker	1971–1979
Paul Keating	1979–1983
John MacBean	1983–1989
Terry Sheahan	1989–1997
Peter Sams	1997–1998
Steve Hutchins	1998–2002
Ursula Stephens	2002–2006
Bernie Riordan	2006–2010
Michael Lee	2010–2014
Mark Lennon	2014–present

General Secretaries

General Secretary	Period
Walter Evans	1939–1940
William Dickson	1940–1941
John Stewart	1941–1950
Ernest Gerard Wright	1950–1952
Charles Wilson Anderson	1952–1954
Bill Colbourne	1954–1969
Peter Westerway	1969–1973
Geoff Cahill	1973–1976
Graham Richardson	1976–1983
Stephen Loosley	1983–1990
John Della Bosca	1990–1999
Eric Roozendaal	1999–2004
Mark Arbib	2004–2007
Karl Bitar	2007–2008
Matt Thistlethwaite	2008–2010
Sam Dastyari	2010–2013
Jamie Clements	2013–2016
Kaila Murnain	2016–present

State election results

Election	Seats won	±	Total votes	%	Position	Leader
1891	35 / 141	35	37,216	20.62%	Third party	Steering Committee
1894	15 / 125	20	33,143	16.49%	Third party	James McGowen
1895	18 / 125	3	20,028	13.20%	Third party	James McGowen
1898	19 / 125	1	21,556	12.18%	Third party	James McGowen
1901	24 / 125	5	35,952	18.44%	Third party	James McGowen
1904	25 / 90	1	92,426	23.3%	Opposition	James McGowen
1907	32 / 90	7	152,704	33.31%	Opposition	James McGowen
1910	46 / 90	14	280,056	48.92%	Majority government	James McGowen
1913	49 / 90	3	311,747	46.63%	Majority government	William Holman
1917	33 / 90	16	262,655	42.63%	Opposition	John Storey
1920	43 / 90	10	68,175	43.03%	Majority government	John Storey
1922	36 / 90	7	85,361	38.37%	Opposition	James Dooley
1925	46 / 90	10	108,225	45.99%	Majority government	Jack Lang
1927	40 / 90	6	488,306	43%	Opposition	Jack Lang
1930	55 / 90	15	729,914	55.05%	Majority government	Jack Lang
1932	24 / 90	31	536,897	40.16%	Opposition	Jack Lang
1935	29 / 90	5	532,486	42.42%	Opposition	Jack Lang
1938	28 / 90	1	412,063	34.82%	Opposition	Jack Lang
1941	54 / 90	26	706,014	50.8%	Majority government	William McKell
1944	56 / 90	2	572,600	45.2%	Majority government	William McKell
1947	52 / 90	4	730,194	45.95%	Majority government	James McGirr
1950	46 / 94	2	753,268	46.75%	Minority government	James McGirr
1953	57 / 94	11	852,276	55.03%	Majority government	Joseph Cahill
1956	50 / 94	7	800,410	47.25%	Majority government	Joseph Cahill
1959	49 / 94	1	838,836	49.12%	Majority government	Joseph Cahill
1962	54 / 94	5	936,047	48.57%	Majority government	Bob Heffron
1965	45 / 94	9	883,824	43.31%	Opposition	Jack Renshaw
1968	39 / 94	6	931,563	43.1%	Opposition	Jack Renshaw
1971	45 / 96	6	1,007,538	45.02%	Opposition	Pat Hills
1973	44 / 99	1	1,069,614	42.93%	Opposition	Pat Hills
1976	50 / 99	6	1,342,038	49.75%	Majority government	Neville Wran
1978	63 / 99	13	1,615,949	57.77%	Majority government	Neville Wran
1981	69 / 99	6	1,564,622	55.73%	Majority government	Neville Wran
1984	58 / 99	11	1,466,413	48.77%	Majority government	Neville Wran
1988	43 / 109	15	1,233,612	38.48%	Opposition	Barrie Unsworth
1991	46 / 99	3	1,204,066	39.05%	Opposition	Bob Carr
1995	50 / 99	4	1,408,616	41.26%	Majority government	Bob Carr
1999	55 / 93	5	1,576,886	42.21%	Majority government	Bob Carr
2003	55 / 93	–	1,631,018	42.68%	Majority government	Bob Carr
2007	52 / 93	3	1,535,872	38.98%	Majority government	Morris Iemma
2011	20 / 93	32	1,061,352	25.55%	Opposition	Kristina Keneally
2015	34 / 93	14	1,500,855	34.08%	Opposition	Luke Foley

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