Australian Labor Party
Federal political party in Australia
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| 2025 | Under Roger Cook's leadership, the party maintains a majority government with 12 seats, securing 41.67% of votes |
| 2024 | After the Tasmanian state election and three consecutive election losses, Rebecca White announced her resignation as party leader. |
| 2024 | Labor retained government in the ACT elections. |
| 2024 | Steven Miles continues as leader of Queensland Labor government |
| 2024 | Eva Lawler continues as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. |
| 2024 | Dr. Tricia Kavanagh becomes the current President of the New South Wales Labor Party. |
| 2024 | The party maintains 1 seat in Opposition with 29.00% of votes. |
| 2024 | Dean Winter became the party leader following the Tasmanian State Election. |
| 2023 | Roger Cook succeeds Mark McGowan as Premier of Western Australia. |
| 2023 | Jacinta Allan becomes Premier of Victoria, succeeding Daniel Andrews |
| 2023 | Steven Miles succeeds Annastacia Palaszczuk as Queensland premier |
| 2023 | Eva Lawler succeeds Natasha Fyles as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. |
| 2023 | Labor Party officially achieves two election commitments: enshrining Sydney Water and Hunter Water as permanent public institutions, and raising the stamp duty exemption threshold for first-home buyers from $650,000 to $800,000. |
| 2023 | Ben Carroll becomes Deputy Premier following Jacinta Allan's resignation. |
| September 27 2023 | Jacinta Allan and Ben Carroll became the party leader and deputy leader, respectively. |
| June 6 2023 | Mark McGowan resigns from party leadership |
| June 6 2023 | Roger Cook becomes party leader and assumes the premiership in 2023. |
| March 2023 | New South Wales Labor Party wins the state election, forming a minority government with Chris Minns becoming Premier. |
| 2022 | Anthony Albanese was elected leader and led the Labor Party to victory in the federal election. |
| 2022 | Peter Malinauskas becomes the most recent Labor Premier of South Australia, taking office in 2022 and continuing to lead the state at the time of this record. |
| 2022 | Peter Malinauskas assumes leadership of the South Australian Labor Party. |
| 2022 | Natasha Fyles becomes Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, succeeding Michael Gunner. |
| 2022 | Anthony Albanese assumes the role of Prime Minister of Australia, marking a significant milestone for the Labor Party leadership. |
| 2022 | The Andrews Government was re-elected for a third term, winning 56 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 15 of 40 seats in the Legislative Council. |
| 2022 | Jacinta Allan becomes Deputy Premier following Daniel Andrews' resignation, serving until 2023. |
| October 2022 | The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report classifying the Australia First Party as a 'white nationalist' and 'anti-immigrant' group. |
| September 2022 | New South Wales Labor Party takes the lead in primary vote polls for the first time in over a decade. |
| July 2022 | IBAC and Victorian Ombudsman released a report finding 'extensive misconduct' by Victorian Labor MPs from the Moderate Labor faction in branch stacking activities. |
| July 2022 | The ALP National Executive took control of the Tasmanian branch, suspending the state conference and administrative committee. Doug Cameron and Nick Sherry were appointed as administrators. |
| May 23 2022 | The 46th Parliament concluded with the federal election results, transitioning to a new parliamentary term. |
| January 26 2022 | The Morrison government transferred the Aboriginal flag's copyright to the Commonwealth, effectively making it freely usable by all Australians without permission or payment. |
| January 12 2022 | The party was de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission for failing to meet the increased requirement of 1,500 members. |
| 2021 | After 1,181 seasonal workers ran away from employers due to alleged inhumane conditions, the Australian government launched a campaign warning workers about bringing shame to their families if they absconded. |
| 2021 | An estimated 60,000 to 100,000 undocumented migrant workers were identified working in the Australian agricultural industry, revealing a significant systemic issue of labor exploitation in the farm sector. |
| 2021 | Michelle Rowland becomes President of the New South Wales Labor Party, serving from 2021 to 2024. |
| 2021 | The party retains 1 seat in Opposition with 28.20% of votes. |
| 2021 | David O'Byrne defeated Shane Broad to become party leader, but resigned after less than a month due to allegations of historical sexual harassment. |
| 2021 | Labor lost the state election. Rebecca White and Michelle O'Byrne stood down from their leadership positions. |
| 2021 | The party achieves its most significant electoral victory, winning 12 seats with 59.92% of the vote. |
| December 2021 | Alan Tudge stood down as Minister for Education and Youth following an investigation into domestic abuse allegations from a former staffer. |
| November 2021 | The Fair Work Commission issued a landmark provisional ruling mandating that farm workers in Australia on piece rates must be paid a minimum wage of $25.41 an hour, providing critical wage protection for vulnerable agricultural workers. |
| October 2021 | The dedicated Country Labor political party was de-registered as part of a major party reform, with the ALP pledging to dedicate 30 percent of winnable upper house seats to people living in regional NSW. |
| October 11 2021 | IBAC and Victorian Ombudsman's joint investigation 'Operation Watts' began hearings, with MP Byrne admitting to branch stacking and implicating Luke Donnellan. |
| September 16 2021 | Australia announced a strategic plan to purchase American nuclear submarines through the AUKUS alliance with the United States and Great Britain, effectively breaking a previous submarine deal with France and signaling a military alignment against China. |
| June 4 2021 | Chris Minns was elected as the leader of the New South Wales Labor Party, replacing Jodi McKay. |
| May 2021 | Jodi McKay resigned from the party leadership. |
| March 27 2021 | Andrew Laming stood aside from parliamentary roles after a third allegation of inappropriate behavior involving taking a photo of a woman's bottom. |
| March 26 2021 | Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming apologize for trolling two women on Facebook and taking inappropriate photos. |
| March 15 2021 | 2021 March 4 Justice protest took place across 40 Australian cities, with an estimated 110,000 people attending to protest sexual misconduct in Parliament. |
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