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The article considers the ramifications of MP John Della Bosca's resignation for the Australian Labor Party's ability to retain power in the government of New South Wales. The author considers whether the Labor Party can be broken down into factions. The article proposes that two of the major political problems facing the party are the concerns of ethnic voters and the issue of Cabinet solidarity. Kristina Keneally, who replaced Bosca as Premier of New South Wales, has little time to regroup the Labor Party before the March 2011 elections. Adapted from the source document.

Provides a comparative labor history of Australia & the US, setting the stage for a look at labor law reforms in both countries: Fair Work Australia & the US Employee Free Choice Act. Australia's ambitious bill passed relatively easily under the guidance of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party, while the more modest Employee Free Choice Act foundered against Republican opposition & Democrat disunity. Adapted from the source document.

Anti‐Americanism, sometimes called the "last acceptable prejudice", is a common phenomenon in the modern era. This paper explores the ebb and flow of anti‐Americanism in the Australian Labor Party in the post‐Second World War period and argues that while at times it was reasonable or proportionate, at others such criticism became unreasonable, disproportionate and therefore prejudicial. When this occurs the Australia‐US alliance can become strained, the Australian electorate tends to become sceptical of the ALP's credentials on national security and the party's electoral prospects also tend to suffer. Nevertheless, following the brief leadership of the stridently anti‐American Mark Latham, such sentiment in the ALP has been widely discredited and is unlikely to emerge again in its prejudicial form for some time, marking the end of an era.

In consideration of the likelihood that left-leaning political parties in many economically advanced capitalist societies will want to borrow strategies used by the electorally successful Australian Labor Party (ALP), which held power continuously from 1983 through 1996, this article outlines & analyzes the nature of the ALP's successes & failures. It is hoped that this analysis will serve to inform those who might wish to import the ALP's model, such that those who turn to that model in order to replicate its success will harbor no illusions about the legacy of the Keating & Hawke governments. It is suggested that rather than being a parochial episode in the history of the labor movement, the recent Australian experience represents not only the demise of traditional labor politics, but prefigures a new political model not yet fully seen in European social democratic & labor parties. The reasons for the ALP's popular success are discussed, as are the party's turn towards conservative economic policies & its simultaneous support of liberal social policies. Comparisons are made with the situations of the political left in other countries, particularly in Great Britain. 57 References. T. K. Brown

Critiques the centennial history of GB's Labour Party as recounted by former press secretary Joe Haines in "A Century of the People's Party" (Inside Labour: The New Labour Magazine, 2000, Feb). Haines's account is argued to present a skewed vision, neglecting the party's social democratic heritage & presenting the "New Labour" project as a recovery (rather than a rejection) of the party's traditional values. In reviewing the party's late-19th-/early-20th-century history, he fails to address the acrimonious relations between liberalism & organized labor, the party's relationship with socialism, & social conditions that contributed to crime; he also misrepresents transitions in party leadership. Instead, he portrays a party with a significant middle class membership (downplaying the role of the working class & trade unions) that was essentially "Blairite" in its values, curious in that contemporary proponents of "New Labour" attempt to distance themselves from their party's past. This effort to rewrite history is condemned, & likely consequences of such actions are described. K. Hyatt Stewart