7-541: The Labor Right (LR) , also known as Labor Unity or Unity , is one of the two major political factions of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is nationally characterised by economic liberalism policies, and competes with the Labor Left faction, which leans toward democratic socialism . Labor Right is composed of autonomous groups in each state and territory of Australia. The groups within
14-674: Is most famous for its support of Third Way policies such as the economic rationalist policies of the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments, including floating the Australian dollar in December 1983, reductions in trade tariffs , taxation reforms such as the introduction of dividend imputation to eliminate double-taxation of dividends and the lowering of the top marginal income tax rate from 60% in 1983 to 47% in 1996, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining ,
21-689: The Australian Workers' Union (AWU), Transport Workers Union (TWU), the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA), Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union (PPTEU) and the Health Services Union (HSU). These unions send delegates to the conferences, with delegates usually coming from the membership, the administration of the union or local branches covered by their activists. State-based factions (national sub-factions) which make up Labor Right include: The faction
28-541: The Labor Right come together as a broad alliance at the national level. The faction includes members with a range of political perspectives, including centrism , partial privatisation , Keynesianism , Laborism , and social conservatism (as a minority). Factional power usually finds expression in the percentage vote of aligned delegates at party conferences. The power of the Labor Right varies from state to state, but it usually relies on certain trade unions, such as
35-608: The ideological spectrum. The first president of the United States, George Washington , warned of political factions in his famous farewell address from 1796. He warned of political parties generally, as according to Washington, political party loyalty when prioritized over duty to the nation and commitment to principles, was considered to be a major threat to the survival of a democratic constitutional republic : Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight),
42-467: The privatisation of Qantas and Commonwealth Bank , making the Reserve Bank of Australia independent, and deregulating the banking system. ‡ Sterle was formerly a member of the now-defunct Centre Left. Political faction A political faction is a group of people with a common political purpose, especially a subgroup of a political party that has interests or opinions different from
49-489: The rest of the political party. Intragroup conflict between factions can lead to schism of the political party into two political parties. The Ley de Lemas electoral system allows the voters to indicate on the ballot their preference for political factions within a political party. Political factions can represent voting blocs . Political factions require a weaker party discipline . Research indicates that factions can play an important role in moving their host party along
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