Talk:Queensland Labor Party

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Does the information on this page really justify an article seperate from the Australian Labor Party or Democratic Labor Party (historical)? Timeshift 01:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I think so. It was an independent party for a while, and predated the creation of the DLP. I'd see the relationship as being like the Australia Party to the Australian Democrats, both of which we have seperate articles on. I also think, as a general principle, merging seperate (but related) parties into one article is a bad idea. It tends to lead to the sort of confusion we have with early state parties, where we've say, got all of the post-1917 split members marked as members of the Nationalist Party of Australia, when they were actually members of unaffiliated (and different in a number of ways) state parties with similar names. Rebecca 02:21, 1 August 2007 (UTC)