Y’all have first past the post / winner takes all, don’t you? There was a vote recently and “labor” won from what I’m reading?
Labor, coalition, independents, etc. what kinds of parties are these? I thought Albanese was a “cunt” yet his party seems to have won again? What’s going on?
I’m curious as to why this is. I thought Australian English used labour as the spelling of the word while labor was only in US english. See https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release for an example of a government website using the alternate spelling.
There’s an entire section of the ALP Wikipedia page that explains it.
Thanks for the tip! It does explain it quite well. I have more questions - but also, since it’s from the earlier part of the 20th century, likely only a professional historian would know some of these answers…