A little history of the Australian Labor Party Quotes

“Early NSW Labor is best seen as a coalition of unionists, socialists, republicans, single-taxers, and, briefly, even some anarchists, a trend replicated in other colonies. The role of socialists and single-taxers in the early Labor Party, and their uneasy relations with union activists, foreshadowed the dynamic of conflict and co-operation between middle-class radicals and unionists that has continued in the ALP to the present day.”
― Nick Dyrenfurth & Frank Bongiorno, A little history of the Australian Labor Party

“Labor has assembled its program in the years of affluence, assuming that government's role was not 'to ration scarcity but plan abundance'.”
― Nick Dyrenfurth & Frank Bongiorno, A little history of the Australian Labor Party