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Labor PartyIn Australia, a political party based on socialist principles. It was founded in 1891 and first held office in 1904. It formed governments 1929-31 and 1939-49, but in the intervening periods internal discord provoked splits, and reduced its effectiveness. It returned to power under Gough Whitlam 1972-75, and again under Bob Hawke in 1983, he was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by Paul Keating in 1991, who subsequently lost the 1996 general election. |
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| Farther south, opposition Labor Party politicians in Tasmania called for services to the mainly holiday island to be "protected. The Australian newspaper, called it a "bird-brained ban," and questioned Campbell's fitness to remain in office (as do his Labor Party opponents). The Australian Labor Party proposed in a higher education white paper last month that a Labor Government would offer a reduction in HECS debt for every year of service in a remote area to students in areas of critical skills shortage, including nursing and medicine, or in rural and regional areas. |
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