The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first DLP Senator in decades, party vice-president John Madigan was elected for a six-year term to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal election, serving since July 2011.
Read more about Democratic Labor Party: Original DLP: 1955–1978, Elections, Politics of The DLP, Internal Dissent, Bibliography
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