| Labor Party National Executive | |
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| Location City: | 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Canberra, ACT |
The Australian Labor Party National Executive, often referred to as the National Executive, is the executive governing body of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), charged with directly overseeing the general organisation and strategy of the party. Twenty members of the National Executive are elected by the party's National Conference, which is the highest representative body of the party's state and territory branches. The other eight members are party ex-officio members.
Members on the Executive may be officials of trade unions affiliated to the party, members of federal or state Parliaments, or rank-and-file ALP members. The ex-officio members are the National President, the National Secretary and two National Vice-Presidents (who are directly elected by Labor members), and the Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party,[1] but of these only the party Leader has a vote.
The National Executive is concerned mainly with organisational matters. It does not decide party policy, which is determined by the National Conference. The National Executive does not elect the party's parliamentary leaders, which is done by a ballot of both the Parliamentary Caucus and by the Labor Party's rank-and-file members. The National President or Vice-President are elected by party members. Its most public role is to act as the final arbiter of disputes about parliamentary candidacies (preselections). On these matters the National Executive usually votes on factional lines. The Labor Right faction holds a majority on the National Executive,[2] though it did not hold a majority at the 2015 National Conference.[3]
The power of the National Executive extends to the reorganisation of a State Branch. For example, in 1970 to improve the party's chances of electoral success, the National Executive intervened in the Socialist Left controlled Victorian Branch, involving the sacking of State officers and dissolution of the Branch. Less drastic forms of intervention are more common, such as the final arbiter of preselection disputes.[4] The executive has authority over policy as it can interpret the party’s constitution, platform and conference decisions.[5]
, the current members of the National Executive are:[6]
| col width=150 | Member type ! | col width=150 | Member name ! | Position | Faction | State/territory ! | Voting member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ex-officio members | National President | ||||||
| Paul Erickson | National Secretary | Victoria | |||||
| Susan Close MP | Vice-President | Left | South Australia | ||||
| Mich-Elle Myers | Vice-President | Left[7] | |||||
| Manu Risoldi | Right | New South Wales | |||||
| National Labor Women's Network Co-Convenor | |||||||
| National Labor Women's Network Co-Convenor | |||||||
| Anthony Albanese MP | Left | New South Wales | |||||
| Elected members | Senator for NSW | Left | New South Wales | ||||
| Gary Bullock | Queensland State Secretary, National Director of Politics and Vice President, National Executive Committee for United Workers Union | Left | |||||
| Senator for Victoria | Right | Victoria | |||||
| National Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union | Left | Queensland | |||||
| Sandra Doumit | National Vice-president at The Australian Workers' Union | Right | New South Wales | ||||
| Kate Doust MLC | Right | Western Australia | |||||
| Gerard Dwyer | Right | New South Wales | |||||
| Senator Karen Grogan | Senator for SA | Left | South Australia | ||||
| Gerard Hayes | National President of the HSU | Right | New South Wales | ||||
| Graeme Kelly | General Secretary USU | Right | New South Wales | ||||
| Michelle O'Byrne | Member of Tasmanian House of Assembly | Left | Tasmania | ||||
| Josh Peak | Secretary of the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees’ Association South Australian Branch | Right | South Australia | ||||
| Sam Rae MP | Member of Australian Parliament for Hawke | Right | Victoria | ||||
| Zach Smith | National Secretary & ACT Branch Secretary at CFMEU | Left | Australian Capital Territory | ||||
| Stacey Schinnerl | QLD Branch Secretary of the AWU | Right | Queensland | ||||
| Carolyn Smith | RIght | Western Australia | |||||
| Wendy Streets | Queensland State Secretary of the Finance Sector Union | Left | Queensland | ||||
| Shannon Threlfall-Clarke | Victorian State Vice President of the Australian Workers Union | Right | Victoria | ||||
| Senator Linda White | Senator from Victoria | Left | Victoria | ||||
| Dylan Wight | Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Tarneit | Left | Victoria |
| Name | State | Term start | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Givens | Queensland | 1915 | 1916 | |
| Jack Holloway | Victoria | 1916 | 1922 | |
| Richard Sumner | Queensland | 1922 | 30 April 1924[8] | |
| Joseph Hannan | Victoria | 30 April 1924 | 1928 | |
| James Kenneally | Western Australia | 1928 | 1936 | |
| Norman Makin | South Australia | 1936 | 1938 | |
| Clarrie Fallon | Queensland | 1938 | June 1944[9] | |
| Fred Walsh | South Australia | 14 February 1945[10] | 29 November 1946 | |
| Abner McAlpine | New South Wales | 29 November 1946[11] | 1950 | |
| John Ferguson | New South Wales | 1950 | 1953 | |
| Denis Lovegrove | Victoria | 1953 | 1 May 1955 | |
| Joe Chamberlain | Western Australia | 1 May 1955 | 1961 | |
| James Stout | Victoria | 1961 | July 1962 | |
| Jim Keeffe | Queensland | July 1962 | August 1970[12] | |
| Tom Burns | Queensland | August 1970 | 7 June 1973 | |
| Bob Hawke | Victoria | 7 June 1973 | 2 August 1978 | |
| Neil Batt | Tasmania | 2 August 1978 | 8 September 1980 | |
| Neville Wran | New South Wales | 8 September 1980 | 3 July 1986 | |
| Mick Young | South Australia | 3 July 1986 | 7 April 1988 | |
| John Bannon | South Australia | 7 April 1988 | 25 June 1991 | |
| Stephen Loosley | New South Wales | 25 June 1991 | 6 June 1992 | |
| Barry Jones | Victoria | 6 June 1992 | 31 July 2000 | |
| Greg Sword | Victoria | 31 July 2000 | 1 January 2004 | |
| Carmen Lawrence | Western Australia | 1 January 2004 | 1 January 2005 | |
| Barry Jones | Victoria | 1 January 2005 | 28 January 2006 | |
| Warren Mundine | New South Wales | 28 January 2006 | 10 January 2007 | |
| John Faulkner | New South Wales | 10 January 2007 | 27 February 2008[13] | |
| Mike Rann | South Australia | 27 February 2008 | 27 December 2008 | |
| Linda Burney | New South Wales | 27 December 2008 | 30 July 2009[14] | |
| Michael Williamson | New South Wales | 30 July 2009 | August 2010 | |
| Anna Bligh | Queensland | August 2010 | 1 July 2011[15] | |
| Jenny McAllister | New South Wales | 1 July 2011 | 17 June 2015 | |
| Mark Butler | South Australia | 17 June 2015 | 18 June 2018 | |
| Wayne Swan | Queensland | 18 June 2018 | present |
| National Secretary | Period | |
|---|---|---|
| Cyril Wyndham | 1963–1969 | |
| Mick Young | 1969–1973 | |
| David Combe | 1973–1981 | |
| Bob McMullan | 1981–1988 | |
| Bob Hogg | 1988–1993 | |
| Gary Gray | 1993–2000 | |
| Geoff Walsh | 2000–2003 | |
| Tim Gartrell | 2 September 2003 – 20 September 2008 | |
| Karl Bitar | 17 October 2008 – 16 March 2011 | |
| George Wright | 19 April 2011 – 30 August 2016 | |
| Noah Carroll | 26 September 2016 – 26 July 2019 | |
| 16 August 2019 – present |