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< Click here to go to Peter Kavanagh's 2006 election campaign weblog.
All of the news releases and campaign information for the 2006 election campaign are now collected together in one place -- which is linked to this website from every page. Click here to have a look at it. There are links on the blog to bring you back to this website.
This weblog also has YouTube videos on it. The DLP appears to be the first political party anywhere in the world to use YouTube for policy announcements on its websites.
WestVic Report June 2008 Contents Page
Link to WestVic Report June 2008 in .pdf format
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Prior to his election in 2006, Peter Kavanagh was a secondary teacher from Melbourne’s western suburbs who has been active in the DLP over many years. Peter has traveled the world extensively and has a very broad academic background. He has working fluency in Chinese and basic fluency in Japanese and Indonesian languages. He has worked as a barrister and spent two years as a lecturer in an Australian university in Malaysia.
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The Democratic labor Party is neither 'Left' nor 'Right' as people usually understand those words in Australian politics. Unlike the ALP it is not dictated to by unions and unlike the Liberal Party it does not seek to serve the interests of big business. The DLP is free to make policy that is in the best interests of Australia, and throughout its history, this is what the DLP has always strived to do. It is a basic element of DLP philosophy that the interests of many Australians may be best be served by preserving, protecting and building on the family.
The DLP has its roots in Australia’s Labour movement of the late 1800s. The name DLP comes from the mid to late 1950s. It was formed after many members of the Australian Labour Party (a majority of members in Victoria), were expelled (or left voluntarily, in sympathy with those who were expelled) for their opposition to communist infiltration of the ALP. The circumstances of the creation of the DLP have contributed to the DLP’s passion for justice and its determination to defend legitimate rights and to oppose totalitarian ideologies.
Since its inception the DLP has been a pacesetter in policy innovation. Many of the DLP’s ideas such as ending the White Australia policy, equal pay for equal work, the vote for eighteen year olds, balanced environmental protection and the establishment of nationally portable superannuation have become accepted facts of Australian life. Other DLP objectives, including the restoration of forests and waterways, income splitting for taxation purposes, significant assistance for families buying a first home and respect for human life (especially near its beginning and its end), are yet to be achieved.
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