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The October 2013 Australian Labor Party spill was a leadership election held to select the next leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition. The spill resulted in Bill Shorten's election as Labor Leader. Tanya Plibersek was later confirmed as deputy leader. The declared candidates were Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese, who were both ministers in the outgoing Labor government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/anthony-albanese-puts-his-hat-into-the-ring-for-labor-leadership-20130913-2tp2h.html#poll )〕 Nominations closed on 20 September 2013. Under new rules, the new leader was elected by public members of the Australian Labor Party over a period of twenty days, followed by a ballot of the Labor parliamentary party. Each of these two voting blocs was be weighted equally in determining the winner. During the leadership election, Chris Bowen, former Treasurer of Australia and Member of Parliament for McMahon, was Interim Leader of the Labor Party and served as Leader of the Opposition. ==Background== After three years of instability in the Labor leadership in which four leadership spills were held between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, this contest featured neither. Gillard retired from parliament at the election, while Rudd announced on election night that he would step down as Labor leader and return to the backbench in his concession speech at The Gabba in Brisbane following Labor's defeat. Earlier in the year the ALP caucus approved changes to the way the federal parliamentary leader is chosen. The new rules make it more difficult to change leaders and require a ballot of the party membership on contested leadership spills. The new rules encourage the parliamentary party to only nominate one candidate, to avoid a month-long ballot of the general party membership. The new rules are controversial, however, and have been publicly criticised by ALP Senator Stephen Conroy and former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Nominations opened at a parliamentary party meeting on Friday 13 September 2013, and remained open for a week. Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten formally nominated.〔 As there was more than one nomination, a ballot of the parliamentary party and another of the organisational party were required.〔 The ballot of the organisational party lasted for two weeks.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian Labor Party leadership spill, October 2013」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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