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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Queensland Labor Party
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Queensland Labor Party (1957-1962). Became the Democratic Labor Party (1962-1977).
Objectives - To re-form a strong Labor Party free of communism; to defend the parliamentary system; to work for full employment; to institute a just family wage based on productivity; to press for adequate national defence; to support aid for non-government schools.
Publicists - C. Byrne, V. Cooper, V. Gair, W. Moore, T. Moores, J. Skinner, E. Walsh.
Notes: The party should not be confused with the Queensland Labour Party (1905-1918). The Party was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) in 1957. The Party became the state branch of the Democratic Labor Party in 1962 but retained the Q.L.P. label for the two elections of 1963 and 1966.