98:. The club prides itself on participating in social movements for a progressive and socialist Australia, drawing inspiration from union movements and supporting the rights of workers avidly. In fact, it is notable that the Labour Day strikes and now holiday are based on the stone masons building the University of Melbourne where the club operates.
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The club has been affiliated to the
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In 2003, the Clubs & Societies
Department of the Student Union, which had a Liberal Club and Labor Club majority, disaffiliated the ALP Club on a technicality. Despite lengthy attempts to overturn this decision, the student union was put into liquidation before the issue could be resolved.
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In recent history the club has been decidedly left-leaning. This is in contrast to the
University of Melbourne Labor Club, who are associated with the Labor Right. The existence of two Labor/ALP Clubs simultaneously is a result of a split in the Labor Club in 1949.
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formed a more moderate Labour-aligned club, the
Radical Club. Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s the club was central to campus life, with members being prominent in clubs and societies, the running of the SRC and in the student magazine
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This goal continues to this day. The club has previously supported campaigns for free education and free healthcare, universal student unionism, feminism and democratic socialism among other concerns.
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The A.L.P. Club, working from the basis of the A.L.P. platform, stands for the progressive reformation of society by democratic means, so as to achieve social justice for all
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to distribute their ideas. In the 1950s, future Victorian Premier
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