"For more than one hundred years it has been the great mission of Australian Labor Party members to improve the lives of ordinary Australians ensuring fairness and a fair go."
Party Members
As a grass roots community organisation, Party members are the core of the Labor Party. Party members and local branches play a central role in innovative policy development and passionately working in the community to spread labor values.
State Branches
Just as Australia is a nation of federated states, Australian Labor is a Party of federated branches from every State and Territory. Each State branch provides organisational support for the local branches and electorate councils of that State working closely with the State Labor Parliamentary Groups.
National Executive
National Executive is the chief administrative body of the Australian Labor Party between National Conferences. The National Executive is directly elected by delegates at the National Conference. The National Presidents, National Secretary, the leader of the Federal Labor Parliamentary Group and State Secretaries all sit on the National Executive, usually as non-voting members unless otherwise elected as a delegate.
Members of the current National Executive include, National President Michael Williamson, National Vice-President, the Hon Anna Bligh MP, National Vice-President, Ms Jenny McAllister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Senator the Hon Mark Arbib, Julie Bignell, Senator Carol Brown, the Hon Mark Butler MP, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Rosemary Barker, Joe de Bruyn, Charlie Donnelly, Jennifer Thomas, Luke Foley, Senator Annette Hurley, Sue Lines, Bill Ludwig OAM, Tara Moriarty, Michael Ravbar, Bernie Riordan, Michelle Roberts MP, the Hon Bill Shorten MP and Linda White.
National President
As Chair of both the National Conference and the National Executive, the President has an important role to fill. The National President and two National Vice-Presidents of the Australian Labor Party are directly elected via postal ballot by the Party Membership every three years. They are elected to lead Labor in an honorary position on a rotational basis, sharing the positions of President, Senior Vice-President and Junior Vice-President over a three year period between National Conferences.
National Secretariat
The National Secretary oversees the running of the National Secretariat, which is the organisational head office of the Australian Labor Party. As the Australian Labor Campaign Director for federal elections the National Secretary plays a critical role in electing Labor Governments. The National Secretariat provides support to all State Branches and Party Units.
Meet Australian Labor People
- National President – Michael Williamson
- Senior Vice President – Anna Bligh
- Junior Vice President – Jenny McAllister
- National Secretary – Karl Bitar
- Assistant National Secretary - Nick Martin
- New South Wales General Secretary – Matthew Thistlethwaite
- Victorian State Secretary – Nicholas Reece
- Australian Capital Territory, Territory Secretary – Elias Hallaj
- Northern Territory, Territory Secretary – Mark Whittaker
- Western Australian State Secretary – Simon Mead
- South Australian State Secretary – Michael Brown
- Queensland State Secretary – Anthony Chisholm
- Tasmania State Secretary – John Dowling
