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The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is a political party in Australia of the labour tradition that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first DLP Senator in decades and a blacksmith by trade, John Madigan was elected for a six-year term to the Australian Senate with 2.3 per cent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal election, who served from July 2011, before resigning from the party and becoming an independent in September 2014, citing long-term internal party tensions. In the 2014 Victorian state election the DLP won a seat in the Legislative Council, with Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins being elected a member for Western Metropolitan.〔http://www.rachelmp.com.au/About-Rachel〕 On 27 June 2013, the Australian Electoral Commission approved a change in the spelling of the party's name from "Democratic Labor Party" to "Democratic Labour Party".〔〔Allan, Lyle (2013), "Change of Spelling: the DLP." in ''Recorder'' (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch), No. 278, December, p.3〕 On 23 April 2015 the party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission for 'failure to demonstrate requisite 500 members to maintain registration'.〔http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/dlp.htm〕 However, the DLP has since proven it has at least 500 members in Victoria alone and is registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission.〔http://www.dlp.org.au/blog/great-news-dlp-retains-registration-in-victoria/〕 ==Original DLP: 1955–1978== The DLP has its origins in the historical Democratic Labor Party, a conservative Catholic-based anti-communist political party which existed from the 1955 split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) until the 1978 DLP vote for dissolution, and which until 1974 played an important role in Australian politics. The Australian Electoral Commission considers the current DLP to be legally the same as the earlier DLP, and so the party was not affected by laws from the John Howard era (1996–2007) which deregistered parties which had never had a parliamentary presence and prohibited party names that include words from another party's name.〔Kelly, Norm. (2007) (What's in a name? Everything, apparently ).〕〔AEC (2008) (Electoral funding and disclosure report: Federal election 2007 )〕 A party named the Democratic Labor Party or Democratic Labour Party has competed in all elections since 1955.〔Commonwealth Parliament Library. (1998–1999). (Federal election results, 1948–1998 ). Research Paper No. 8.〕 The original DLP resulted from the conservative Catholic National Civic Council's anti-communist entryist tactics within the ALP and Australian trade union movement in an effort to curb communist influence. Such action led to the then ALP leader H. V. Evatt publicly attacking the anti-communist "Groupers" and expelling them from the ALP, triggering the 1955 split. The expelled anti-communists, numbering 51 in total including 14 ministers and a State Premier, then formed the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which in 1957 became the Australian Democratic Labor Party and today is the Democratic Labour Party. The DLP used the Alternative Vote electoral system to direct electoral preferences away from the ALP at state and federal levels, until its membership and party organisation declined sufficiently to render it electorally impotent in the early 1970s. Its primary interests were related to industrial relations and foreign policy, but the party was also a forerunner in campaigning to end the White Australia Policy, while supporting equal pay for equal work, the vote for 18-year-olds and family income splitting for tax purposes among other things.〔 The party held the balance of power in the Australian Senate during the 1960s and 1970s, until it fell afoul of Australian resistance to that nation's involvement in the Vietnam War and suffered accordingly in terms of its electoral representation. In 1978, DLP branches in all states, including Victoria, voted to dissolve. In Victoria, the vote passed by a few votes and 14 voters were found to be concurrently members of other political parties. Three-quarters of the Victorian branch's executive rejected the vote and continued the party in that state. In 1986, unions affiliated with the DLP, which had been unaffiliated since 1978, re-affiliated with the ALP. 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「Democratic Labour Party (Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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