Sentences with phrase «parliamentary labor party»
But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»
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[292] The Australian Green party called for a parliamentary inquiry into News Limited, but Hartigan directly denied allegations by both the Greens and the governing Labor party that News Limited has been running a campaign against them, describing his group's journalism as «aggressive but fair.»
This change has led to the rise of a number of minor parties such as the Democratic Labor Party, Australian Democrats and Australian Greens who have taken advantage of this system to achieve parliamentary representation and the balance of power.
Readers may like to know that the Australian Labor Party - a sister Party of British Labour with a very similar history and values to our own - has rules which insist on mandatory re-selection for all Federal MPs before each Federal Parliamentary election.
[5] Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation, the Hon J Macklin, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon W Snowdon, Indigenous economic development, Australian Labor Party - Election 2007.