It’s hard to learn about Labor. It’s an old, powerful and complex beast that confuses the uninitiated. Many things are not written, many written things are not enacted.
You may have heard heroic or sorry stories of past Labor fights. You may have come to offer your energy to a movement for a better society.
But you may have been left standing, feel unwanted. Can a newcomer learn the ropes or get engaged? What is a faction? How does Labor decide policy? How does it pick candidates for Parliament? How, if at all, does it involve ordinary members? What is possible? What needs to be done? How do we do it? And other questions…
Here are a few sources of knowledge…
Our readings, viewings & listenings
- Readings & viewings
- ALP stacks & reform media list
- journals, books, e-resources
- The Recorder
- podcasts
- social media threads
ALP rules & tools
- membership
- structures
- platform and policy committees
- national and state constitutions
- codes of ethics
- conferences
- disputes procedures
Labor Academy
- Labor Academy South Australia
- Labor Academy Queensland
Special interest groups
- Emily’s List – support network for progressive Labor women in Australian politics.
- Labor for Refugees
- LEAN (Labor Environmental Action Network)
- Rainbow Labor Network Victoria
- Open Labor
- The Fabians – a collective movement who promote equality by advancing new ideas.
- The Victorian Community Action Network
Think tanks and peak bodies
- Australia Unions
- Per Capita
- John Cain Foundation (now merged with Per Capita)
- John Curtin Research Centre
- McKell Institute
- Lowy Institute
- Evatt Foundation
- Centre for Policy Development
- Centre for Australian Progress
- The Australia Institute
- Accountability Roundtable
- Faith communities
- Public Health Association Australia
- NACCHO (National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation)