User:Catiline52/Democratic Labour Party (merged)
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The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), formerly the Democratic Labor Party, is an Australian political party. The party came into existence following the 1955 Labor split as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), and was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. In 1962, the Queensland Labor Party, a breakaway party of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party, became the Queensland branch of the DLP.[6]
Democratic Labour Party | |
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Abbreviation | DLP |
President | Rosemary Lorrimar[1] |
Secretary | Stephen Campbell[1] |
Founded | 1955 (as Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)) |
Split from | Australian Labor Party |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Youth wing | Young Democratic Labour Association (YDLA) |
Ideology | Social conservatism[2] Social democracy Distributism[3] Anti-communism |
Political position | Social: Right-wing[4] Economic: Centre[5] |
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A majority of the Democratic Labor Party voted to re-affiliate with the Australian Labor Party in 1978, however, the Victorian branch of the DLP voted against this move and maintained the independent party. In 2013, the party changed their name from the Democratic Labor Party to the Democratic Labour Party, as a move away from the English-language spelling reform advocated by Labor.[7]