Australian Labor Party

Labor battles to reconnect with ‘its people’

25-Jan-2012

The Labor Party just ain't what it used to be.

Ripper to retire at next state election

18-Jan-2012

Mark McGowan is set to become the leader of the Western Australian Labor Party as of Monday, after Eric Ripper fronted a press conference today to announce his formal resignation and foreshadow his retirement at next year's election.

Makeover more than just slicker spin

Joseph Poprzeczny

28-Sep-2011

Labor's current leadership doesn't seem capable of reforming the party.

Little left of the Labor we knew

Joseph Poprzeczny

11-Feb-2010

Modern Labor bears little resemblance to the party founded more than 100 years ago.

Pollies vote down people power

Joseph Poprzeczny

10-Dec-2008

LAST week, State Scene outlined how Australia would have become a true democracy if the 1891 draft constitution of South Australia's democratic-minded premier, Charles Kingston, was adopted.

ALP probes Riverton election challenge

Rebecca Lawson

21-Oct-2008

The Australian Labor Party is mounting a potential campaign to challenge the election result in the seat of Riverton by asking residents who felt they were unfairly denied a vote to come forward.

Ripper elected ALP leader

Staff Reporters

16-Sep-2008

Former treasurer Eric Ripper has been elected leader of the Western Australian Labor Party, two days after former leader Alan Carpenter resigned from the post.

Round 5: Returning Sledgehammers in View from the Arch

Andrew Hobbs

16-Nov-2007

WA politics reclaimed the spotlight this week as Upper House MP Shelley Archer quit the ALP. Meanwhile both federal parties launched their campaigns, Foreign Affairs spokesmen were in furious agreement and our expats started voting.

The uranium game is changing

Tim Treadgold

24-Apr-2007

Bubbles never last long, as every child knows. No sooner have you blown one than it pops. What happens in the playground also happens on the stock market, as speculators are about to discover when the great uranium bubble of 2007 explodes.

Tell-tales blowing in the wind

Tim Treadgold

12-Dec-2006

Does history repeat itself? A question that has kept Briefcase awake recently after a series of events which are eerily like 1987, the time of the last great boom (and bust).

D'Orazio to quit Labor: Carpenter

Staff Reporters

25-Aug-2006

Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter has asked former police Minister John D'Orazio to resign from the Australian Labor Party.

Reader Response - When is a win called a win?

Staff Reporters

12-Apr-2005

I�am always amused to read Joe Poprzeczny's weekly back-page opinion piece in WA Business News.The article titled 'Conservatives deal themselves out' (April 7) is a case in point.