Chapter:
100 - General Resolutions
Mover:
Julia Kelly
Seconder:
Anna Norton
 
 
Source:
Branch: Dickson Morning
My Private Notes


Preamble
​Increasingly we have seen elected officials choosing to downplay, ignore or entirely resist elements of the
ALP National and ACT Branch platforms. This undermines the entire rationale of Labor as a party of
democratic reform. We remind elected officials of their obligations under pledges they have freely made to
be part of the Australian Labor Party.
General Resolution

Pledges to the Platform

​This conference reminds elected members of the Territory and Federal Governments that as members of the Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), they have explicitly pledged to support the
Platform of the ALP. (p65, ACT ALP Rules 2022-2023)

As candidates for office, they have further pledged "to be bound by the Objective and the National and ACT Branch Platforms and Rules of the Australian Labor Party and by all decisions of National Conference and those decisions of the ACT Branch Conference that do not conflict with the National Objective, Platform and Rules and other decisions of National Conference."

This conference affirms that the National and ACT Branch Platforms are not guidelines or suggestions for elected officials of the ALP; but pledged documents which the territory and federal caucuses must abide by insofar as they have the capacity.

It notes that a failure to adhere to the ACT Branch rules may be addressed by a complaint by any member, party unit or affiliated union to the Disputes Tribunal following the procedures in part M of the rules