Queensland Labor Party#Leader

{{About|the current Queensland branch of the federal Labor Party|the defunct breakaway Labor party from 1957{{ndash}}1978|Queensland Labor Party (1957{{ndash}}1978)}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Queensland Labor Party

| logo = Logo Queensland Labor Party.png

| native_name =

| logo_size = 210px

| caption =

| colorcode = {{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}

| leader1_title = Leader

| leader1_name = Steven Miles

| leader2_title = Deputy Leader

| leader2_name = Cameron Dick

| leader3_title = President

| leader3_name = Fiona McNamara{{cite web |url=https://queenslandlabor.org/fiona-mcnamara/ |title=Fiona McNamara – Queensland Labor |last= |first= |date= |website=queenslandlabor.org |publisher= |access-date= |quote= }}

| leader4_title = Secretary

| leader4_name = Kate Flanders{{cite web |url=https://queenslandlabor.org/kate-flanders/ |title=Kate Flanders – Queensland Labor |last= |first= |date= |website=queenslandlabor.org |publisher=Queensland Labor |access-date=2 July 2022 |quote= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701164824/https://queenslandlabor.org/kate-flanders/ |archive-date=1 July 2022 |url-status=live}}

| founder =

| founded = {{start date and age|5 August 1892}}{{cite book | title=Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | author=Fitzgerald, Ross & Thornton, Harold | pages=1–11}}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=5 August 1892 |title=Labour in Politics. Call to Convention. Mr Glassey Appointed Leader. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174096452/19176756 |work=The Telegraph |quote=A circular has been addressed to the various labour organisations in Queensland as follows: "Recognising the increasing importance of the Labour Party in Parliament, and in view of the approaching general elections, a meeting of the Labour members and their avowed supporters has been held, and the party formally established. Mr. Thomas Glassey was appointed to the responsible position of leader. |access-date=}}

| registered =

| headquarters = TLC Building, South Brisbane, Queensland

| newspaper = [https://www.queenslandlabor.org/labor/qld-labor-times/qld-labor-times-autumn-2018/ Queensland Labor Times]

| think_tank = T. J. Ryan Foundation

| student_wing =

| youth_wing = Young Labor

| womens_wing =

| affiliation1_title = Union affiliate

| affiliation1 = QCU

| membership_year = 2021

| membership = {{increase}}10,000{{efn|The membership of Queensland Labor has increased roughly 1,000 members since 2014 (8–9,000 members to 9–10,000 members).{{cite news |last1=O'Brien |first1=Chris |last2=Howells |first2=Melinda |date=23 August 2014 |title=Qld Labor split on new leadership vote rules |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-23/qld-labor-membership-surges-since-2012-election-loss/5691714 |url-status=live |work=ABC News |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828111349/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-23/qld-labor-membership-surges-since-2012-election-loss/5691714 |archive-date=28 August 2014 }}}}{{cite news |last1=Riga |first1=Rachel |date=5 June 2021 |title=Queensland Labor president John Battams acknowledges shortcomings in federal election track record |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/qld-labor-conference-president-john-battams/100191690 |url-status=live |work=ABC News |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727122839/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/qld-labor-conference-president-john-battams/100191690 |archive-date=27 July 2021 }}

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|

| Social democracy

|Majority faction:

| Democratic socialism{{cite journal |last1=McAllister |first1=Ian |title=Party Adaptation and Factionalism within the Australian Party System |journal=American Journal of Political Science |date=1991 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=211-218 |doi=10.2307/2111444 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111444 |access-date=2 December 2024 |ref=Yes|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |last1=McKay |first1=Jack |date=3 February 2025 |title=Queensland Labor upheaval as MPs defect to rival faction |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/queensland-labor-upheaval-mps-defect-rival-faction/104888784 |url-status=live |work=ABC News |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250203225016/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/queensland-labor-upheaval-mps-defect-rival-faction/104888784 |archive-date = 3 February 2025 }}

}}

| position = Centre-left

| national = Australian Labor

| colours = {{colorbox|{{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}|border=silver}} Red

| slogan = Putting Queenslanders First{{cite web |url=https://www.queenslandlabor.org/media/20088/alp_state_platform_2017_02.pdf |title=State Platform 2017 |last= |first= |date=28 July 2017 |website=queenslandlabor.org |publisher=Queensland Labor |access-date= |quote=}}

| seats1_title = Legislative Assembly

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|35|93|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}}}

| seats2_title = House of Representatives

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|12|30|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}}} {{small|(Qld seats)}}

| seats3_title = Senate

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|3|12|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}}} {{small|(Qld seats)}}

| seats4_title = Brisbane City Council

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|5|26|hex={{Australian politics/party colours|labor qld}}}}

| website = {{URL|queenslandlabor.org}}

| country = Queensland

| country2 = Australia

}}

The Queensland Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland){{cite web |url=https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/2271/ALP-Constitution.pdf |title=Queensland Labor Rules 2022 |date=2022 |website=ecq.qld.gov.au |publisher=Queensland Labor Party }} and commonly referred to as Queensland Labor or simply Labor, is the branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the state of Queensland.{{cite web | url=https://www.queenslandlabor.org/ | title=Queensland Labor | publisher=Queensland Labor | access-date=15 April 2018}} It has functioned in the state since the 1880s.{{efn|de facto.}} The Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party was the first Labour Party to win government in the world, when, in December of 1899, following the resignation of the Dickson ministry, Queensland Labour leader Anderson Dawson accepted an offer by Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Griffith to form a government.{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=DJ |date=1975 |title=T.J. Ryan: A Political Biography |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_186109/DU272R97_M9_1975.pdf?Expires=1503453528&Signature=QNZkBHYI5oke1R1vdf~-2jueDezCcB6mC4uZaYDoXcQDRrkP-V7~bYqgOShEgrKqkSDTi9C7Lh7k1~QEPCPZ4Zc4IvKdzOMJkeUy7YZu3bGLj0F5IjN~T~EXiALzeu9WZdb86-l3rKndV5R~TwmK~6gYEogGlwOuouZRFRrKLqKbi513uafMykoJRsSQtf5mMJXrqd7s4T7CmVHqgoUHbPtbgRIJkj1YxpIp2rejhJiWAYTJsK0AZdcx08Ms7R-T1n-9UfaZv~Y9JRKUx39pSno7QE5HMxU8ixRypGYHxR1l6Fh1cnEsbrbZ560OqxJNGyj4HTkwPDpf4T2IQUl66g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822015859/https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_186109/DU272R97_M9_1975.pdf?Expires=1503453528&Signature=QNZkBHYI5oke1R1vdf~-2jueDezCcB6mC4uZaYDoXcQDRrkP-V7~bYqgOShEgrKqkSDTi9C7Lh7k1~QEPCPZ4Zc4IvKdzOMJkeUy7YZu3bGLj0F5IjN~T~EXiALzeu9WZdb86-l3rKndV5R~TwmK~6gYEogGlwOuouZRFRrKLqKbi513uafMykoJRsSQtf5mMJXrqd7s4T7CmVHqgoUHbPtbgRIJkj1YxpIp2rejhJiWAYTJsK0AZdcx08Ms7R-T1n-9UfaZv~Y9JRKUx39pSno7QE5HMxU8ixRypGYHxR1l6Fh1cnEsbrbZ560OqxJNGyj4HTkwPDpf4T2IQUl66g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ |archive-date=2017-08-22 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |page=xv }}

History

{{See|History of the Australian Labor Party{{!}}History of the Labor Party|Australian labour movement{{!}}labour movement}}

Trade unionists in Queensland had begun attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway, the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful campaign as an independent in an 1886 by-election. A Workers' Political Reform Association was founded to nominate candidates for the 1888 election, at which the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council endorsed six candidates. Thomas Glassey won the seat of Bundamba at that election, becoming the first self-identified "labor" MP in Queensland. The Queensland Provincial Council of the Australian Labor Federation was formed in 1889 in an attempt to unite Labor campaign efforts. Tommy Ryan won the seat of Barcoo for the labour movement-run People's Parliamentary Association in 1892, and the Labor Party was formally established in Queensland following the first Labor-in-Politics Convention later that year.{{cite book | url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_204936/JQ4798_A8F57_1989.pdf | title=Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | author=Fitzgerald, Ross & Thornton, Harold | pages=1–11}}

The Queensland branch subsequently formed the first Labor government in Australia, albeit briefly, when Anderson Dawson took office for a week in 1899 after a falling out between the non-Labor forces.{{cite book | title=Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | author=Fitzgerald, Ross & Thornton, Harold | pages=11}}

Since 1989, when the party came back to power after thirty-two years in Opposition, all its leaders have become Premiers despite two spells in Opposition in 1996–98 and 2012–2015.

As of 2020, the Queensland branch has three factions: the right, headed by Annastacia Palaszczuk, the left, headed by Steven Miles, and the centralist faction, the Old Guard. Discounting Speaker Curtis Pitt, of the 47 Labor MPs, 24 belong to the Left, 16 to the Right, and 7 to the Old Guard.{{cite web |last1=Lynch |first1=Lydia |title=Queensland has a new deputy premier and treasurer: who are they? |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/queensland-has-a-new-deputy-premier-and-treasurer-who-are-they-20200511-p54rrp.html |website=Brisbane Times |date=11 May 2020 |publisher=Fairfax Media |access-date=1 August 2022}}

As of the 2020 state election, Queensland Labor's seat distribution was as follows:

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|+ 2020 state election Queensland Labor seat distribution

! Region

! Electorates

! colspan=2| Labor seats

! {{tooltip|%|Percentage of Labor seats per regions electorate}}

North & Far North Queensland (N/FNQ)

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