The Australian Labor Party’s National Policy Committee has released a consultation draft for review of the National Policy Platform. The National Platform is the Party’s governing document and will be decided at the upcoming National Conference, to be held in Sydney in early December. The consultation draft is available here. The draft has been developed… Continue reading Australian Labor Party Platform Consultation Draft

On 7 September 2010, the Independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott announced they would support a Gillard Labor minority government. See Hawker Britton’s paper, Labor Government and the Post-Election Outlook, for details about the election outcome, the agreements made and the outlook for the Gillard Government’s first term. The Parliamentary Library has released an excellent Research Paper on… Continue reading Labor Government and the Post-Election Outlook

Today the Australian Greens signed an Agreement to support a Gillard Labor Government. The Agreement was developed in order to establish a basis for stable and effective government. This Agreement is significant because it formalises Greens MP Adam Bandt’s commitment to forming a Labor Government. It brings Labor to a total of 73 seats in the… Continue reading Greens-Labor Agreement