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The Upper House electorate of Western Victoria stretches from the outer Melbourne suburbs of Melton and parts of Werribee and Lara to the South Australian border. It includes the cities and towns of the Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong, Ballarat, Warrnambool, Portland, Colac, Horsham, Hamilton, Ararat, Avoca and Port Fairy.
If you live in this part of Victoria you would have had the opportunity to vote for Peter Kavanagh at the 2006 state election. [More]
The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) in its current form began in the 1950s but is a legitimate heir to the Australian labour movement that began in the 1890s.
Following the disastrous Maritime and Shearers’ strikes of the late nineteenth century, the labour movement in Australia organised politically to achieve its aims. It organised a Labour Party in each colony. In the process it largely created the Commonwealth of Australia itself! Commonwealth and State Governments were subsequently formed by the original Australian Labour Party, with Prime Ministers Andrew Fisher, Jim Scullin, John Curtin and Ben Chifley among its foremost, moderate-reformist leaders. From its earliest successes, the Australian labour movement was an important factor in Australia’s worldwide renown as a 'workers’ paradise'. [More]
<== Click here to visit Peter Kavanagh's DLP for West Vic weblog - 2006 Election Campaign.
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