Labor Party

noun

1. one of the chief political parties of Australia, generally supporting the interests of organized labour

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The new laws were passed by the ruling Labor Party after weeks of tense backdoor negotiations with the Greens, who said they had secured "significant wins to protect forests".

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He was so inflammatory that Australia’s Labor Party asked for Kassam, who was then associated with Breitbart, to be banned from entering the country, citing comments he’d made about the Quran being “fundamentally evil” and a tweet arguing the Scottish National Party leader’s legs should be taped shut.

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Populists on the party’s progressive flank, like Graham Platner, an oyster farmer running for Senate in Maine, and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, the party’s nominee in the New York City mayoral race, and Omar Fateh, a Minnesota state Senator and the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party’s nominee for Minneapolis mayor have all been held at arm’s length by Democratic leaders.

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Albanese, whose Labor Party government was re-elected with an increased majority in May, had pledged among other things to create more jobs and bring back manufacturing in Australia.

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“Senator Lee’s heinous lies have only made the pain that Melissa’s loved ones and colleagues are going through even worse,” added Richard Carlbom, chair of Minnesota’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, in a statement to Utah News Dispatch.

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