Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australia's oldest political party. It is so-named because of its origins in and close links to the trade union movement. While standard practice in Australian English is to spell the word labour with an "-our" ending, in reference to the name of the party it is spelt with an "-or" ending.

ALP federal leaders

• Chris Watson 1901-08 (Prime Minister 1904)
• Andrew Fisher 1908-15 (Prime Minister 1908-09, 1910-13, 1914-15)
• Billy Hughes 1915-16 (Prime Minister 1915-23, expelled from Labor Party 1916)
• Frank Tudor 1916-22
• Mathew Charlton 1922-28
• James Scullin 1928-35 (Prime Minister 1929-32)
• John Curtin 1935-45 (Prime Minister 1941-45)
• Ben Chifley 1945-51 (Prime Minister 1945-49)
• Dr Herbert Evatt 1951-60
• Arthur Calwell 1960-67
• Gough Whitlam 1967-77 (Prime Minister 1972-75)
• Bill Hayden 1977-83
• Bob Hawke 1983-91 (Prime Minister 1983-91)
• Paul Keating 1991-96 (Prime Minister 1991-96)
• Kim Beazley 1996-2001
• Simon Crean 2001-03
• Mark Latham 2003-05
• Kim Beazley 2005-

List of ALP federal leaders by time served

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