Talk:Australian Labor Party split of 1955

The ALP Split in Queensland in 1957

The comments made about Communist influence in the AWU are incorrect. The AWU was anti-Communist, but its leader, Joe Bukowski, was an opponent of Gair. The Right-wing AWU and the Left united to expel Gair, who was widely disliked on personal grounds. Also the Industrial Groups did not operate in the AWU. Dr Evatt was opposed to the ALP split in Queensland, for this made it much harder for the federal ALP led by Evatt to win the federal election due in 1958, or at least this was probably the thought in Evatt's mind. The ALP was unlikely to win in 1958 anyway, for it was already badly split in Victoria and now badly split in Queensland.

Local circumstances were responsible for the split in Queensland, which was different from the split elsewhere.

There are references to the split in Queensland in Ross McMullin's history of the ALP and Robert Murray's The Split, together with more recent references in Ross Fitzgerald's book. I haven't got the time to write something up just at the moment, but if someone else can this would be great.

Pestbuda (talk) 11:54, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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