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.

Past ALP State Premiers and Territory Chief Ministers

New South Wales

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• Bob Carr (1995–2005)
• Barrie Unsworth (1986–88)
• Neville Wran (1976–86)
• Jack Renshaw (1964–65)
• Robert Heffron (1959–64)
• Joseph Cahill (1952–59)
• James McGirr (1947–52)
• William McKell (1941–47)
• Jack Lang (1925–27, 1930–32)
• James Dooley (1921–21, 1921–22)
• James Storey (1920–21)
• William Holman (1913–16)
• James McGowan (1910–13, first Labor premier of New South Wales)

Victoria

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• Joan Kirner (1990–92, first female Premier of Victoria)
• John Cain (1982–90)
• John Cain (senior) (1943, 1945–47, 1952–55)
• Edmond Hogan (1927–28, 1929–32)
• George Prendergast (1924)
• George Elmslie (1913)

Queensland

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• Wayne Goss (1989–96)
• Vince Gair (1952-57)
• Ned Hanlon (1946-52)
• Frank Cooper (1942-46)
• William Forgan Smith (1932-42)
• William McCormack (1925-29)
• William Gillies (1925)
• Ted Theodore (1919–25)
• Tom Ryan (1915–19)
• Anderson Dawson (1899, world's first leader of a parliamentary socialist government)

Western Australia

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• Dr Carmen Lawrence (1990–93, first female Premier of an Australian state)
• Peter Dowding (1988–90)
• Brian Burke (1983–88)
• John Tonkin (1971–74)
• Albert Hawke (1953–59)
• Frank Wise (1945–47)
• John Willcock (1936–45)
• Phillip Collier (1924–30, 1933–36)
• John Scaddan (1911–16)
• Henry Daglish (1904–05, first Labor premier of Western Australia)

South Australia

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• Lynn Arnold (1992–93)
• John Bannon (1982–92)
• Des Corcoran (1979)
• Don Dunstan (1967–68, 1970–79)
• Frank Walsh (1965–67)
• Robert Richards (1933)
• Lionel Hill (1926–27, 1930–33)
• John Gunn (1924–26)
• Crawford Vaughan (1915–17)
• John Verran (1910–12)
• Thomas Price (1905–09, first Labor premier of South Australia)

Tasmania

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• Jim Bacon (1998–2004)
• Michael Field (1989–92)
• Harry Holgate (1981–82)
• Bill Neilson (1975–77)
• Eric Reece (1958–69, 1972–75)
• Edward Brooker (1947–48)
• Robert Cosgrove (1939–47, 1948–58)
• Edmund Dwyer-Gray (1939)
• Albert Ogilvie (1934–39)
• Joseph Lyons (1923–28)
• John Earle (1909, 1914–16)

Australian Capital Territory

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• Rosemary Follett (1989, 1991–95, first female head of an Australian state or territory)