Queensland Labor Party (1957–1978)
Former political party in Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with North Queensland Labor Party.
This article is about the former breakaway group. For the current political party, see Queensland Labor Party.
The Queensland Labor Party (QLP) was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair. In 1962 the party became the Queensland section of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). The party continued to hold seats in the Queensland state parliament until 1972, then suffered a collapse in its vote and wound itself up in 1978.