Talk:Australian Labor Party
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[edit] Costello a member of Labor?
I wonder who added it in... good it was picked up by an IP, however is it worth mentioning that he worked for the Social Democratic Students Association of Victoria, an affiliate of the Balaclava branch of Australian Young Labor? Timeshift (talk) 08:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Well...
Well Costello is actually a liberal (in the true sense, not the wrongly named Liberal Party sense) and the only reason he's working for the Liberal party was because he knew he wouldn't be able to get anywhere if he joined the Labor Party. So yeah, I guess that was some person's idea of a joke saying that he was a member of labour. 19:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hartley the first?
Hartley, NSW was the first parliamentary seat to be won by Labour (as Labor was spelt at the time - see Etymology) the candidate being Joseph Cook. In New South Wales in 1891, the first election contested by Labour candidates, 35 of 141 seats were won by Labour candidates.
Query: If 35 seats were won by Labour candidates, could any single one of the candidates be said to be "the first"? Wouldn't all their terms have commenced from election day? Maybe Hartley was the first of the 35 seats to be declared. If so, I'm not sure this counts as far as "first Labour seat" records go. -- JackofOz (talk) 23:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Labor or Labour?
Is the Labor party derived from the original British spelling? Profession (talk) 10:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- I could only assume so. Labour Party was changed to Labor Party in 1912 by King O'Malley. Timeshift (talk) 11:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- It was also done to make it easy to distinguish the actual Labor Party from the general labour movement (eg, trade unions), which was a more distinct group back then when trade unions were still fighting for their legitimacy. I've added this point under the etymology section.Wikischolar1983 (talk) 05:18, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tree of Knowledge image
Should the image be moved or removed? When it is placed as it is, it sticks on to the end of the last right aligned image and gets placed wherever that is, and as a result the image of the tree on the left is overlapping with some of the article text. Timeshift (talk) 06:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
