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:''This article is about the current Australian political party founded after the dissolution of the original DLP. For the earlier party, see [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)]]. There is [[Democratic Labor Party (South Korea)|S. Korean party]] of the same name. For other parties with this name around the world, see [[Democratic Labour Party]].''
{{Infobox_Australian_Political_Party |
party_name = Democratic Labor Party |
previously = [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|Democratic Labor Party]] |
party_wikicolourid = Democratic Labor |
leader = John Mulholland |
foundation = [[1984]] |
ideology = anti-[[economic rationalism]],<br> [[social conservatism]]|
headquarters = ? |
website = [http://www.dlp.org.au/ http://www.dlp.org.au/]|
}}
The '''Democratic Labor Party''' (DLP) is a minor political party in [[Australia]] that espouses [[social conservatism]]. It is descended from, but not legally the same as, the [[Democratic Labor Party (1955-78)|Democratic Labor Party]] which existed from [[1955]] to [[1978]], and which until [[1974]] played an important role in Australian politics. At the [[Victorian legislative election, 2006|2006 Victorian election]], the new DLP won parliamentary representation for the first time when it won a seat in the [[Victorian Legislative Council]].
The old DLP was wound up in 1978, but a small group of DLP activists in Victoria formed a new DLP, which has contested Senate elections in Victoria at every election since 1984 and a number of Senate seats in other States in the 2007 Federal Election. The party's policies include a Progressive Expenditure Tax (with no tax payable on any income that is saved or invested), Universal Living Allowance tied to basic per capita living costs, rejection of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and other regressive taxes for general revenue, federal funding for the education of students attending non-government schools to be based on an equitable distribution and increased diversification in overseas trade to broaden the base for growth and opposition to [[abortion]], [[euthanasia]], [[therapeutic cloning]] and [[same-sex marriage]]. The party no longer has the patronage of the [[Catholic Church]] but still has support among Catholics{{Fact|date=November 2007}}.
At the [[Australian federal election, 2004|2004 Federal Election]], the DLP received 58,042 first preference, or 1.94% of all votes, in the Victorian Senate election [http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-12246-VIC.htm]. These votes assisted in the election of [[Steve Fielding]] from [[Family First Party|Family First]] to the Senate, even though the DLP vote was higher than the Family First vote. It also contested the federal divisions of [[Division of Ballarat|Ballarat]], [http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-12246-198.htm] and [[Division of McMillan|McMillan]] [http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-12246-227.htm].
The DLP contested the 2006 [[Victorian legislative election, 2006|Victorian State Election]], fielding candidates in the eight regions of the reformed [[Victorian Legislative Council|Legislative Council]], where [[proportional representation]] gave the party the best chance of having members elected. It polled 1.97% of the first preference [http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/State2006resultbypartyUH.html] vote. However, in two regions it polled higher, with 2.70% in Western Victoria and 5.11% in Northern Metropolitan. This was enough to elect one member, [[Peter Kavanagh (Australian politician)|Peter Kavanagh]], on ALP preferences in [[Western Victoria Region, Victoria|Western Victoria Region]]. They briefly looked set to have a second member, party leader John Mulholland, elected in Northern Metropolitan, but this result was overturned after a recount.
==Politics of the DLP==
Following the election of DLP candidate [[Peter Kavanagh (Australian politician)|Peter Kavanagh]], attention has been given to the DLP platform of opposition to abortion and poker machines and the description of HIV/AIDS as a "homosexual disease."<ref>{{cite web
| first=Josie
| last=Taylor
| title = Democratic Labor Party makes a comeback in Victoria
| publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]
| date = [[13 December]] [[2006]]
| url = http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1810600.htm
| accessdate = 2006-12-14 }}</ref>
However, the party has a comprehensive policy platform, and Peter Kavanagh has referred to the heritage of the historic [[Democratic Labor Party (1955-78)|Democratic Labor Party]], saying that "The DLP remains the only political party in Australia which is pro-family, pro-life and genuinely pro-worker."<ref>{{cite web
| first=Peter
| last=Kavanagh
| title = DLP not eclipsed by Family First (letter)
| publisher = [[National Civic Council (NCC)]]
| date = [[27 May]] [[2006]]
| url = http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2006may27_l2.html
| accessdate = 2006-12-17 }}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.dlp.org.au DLP website]
*[http://dlpforwestvic.blogspot.com DLP Western Victoria website]
*[http://dlpforwestvic.blogspot.com/2007/02/maiden-speech-and-media-commentary.html Peter Kavanagh's maiden parliamentary speech]
*[http://peterkavanagh.blogspot.com/2007/09/dlp-speech-against-cloning-legislation.html Peter Kavanagh's parliamentary speech against cloning legislation]
*[http://peterkavanagh.blogspot.com Peter Kavanagh website]
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