The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is one of the two major political parties in Australia. With a Federal Election due late in 2007, the ALP is looking to rule the Australian people under their new leader Kevin Rudd. The ALP cannot be trusted to lead Australia, and the purpose of this article is to show you the top reasons why you cannot trust the Australian Labor Party. These reasons include

1. Factionalism

The ALP has institutionalized factionalism. You are either a member of the Labor Unity (right) faction, the Socialist Left faction, or you are a nobody with no power base. These factions hate each other more than they hate their opposition. This is bred from their early days in university politics. You cannot trust people who hate each other to represent Australian society.

2. Beholden to Unions

Former trade union officials make up 70% of the ALP front bench. This shows that the ALP is not representative of the people when at most 43% of public sector workers, and 15% of the private sector are members of unions. Unions have a large amount of power over who gets pre-selected in the ALP, and those pre-selected are beholden to the unions, instead of truly supporting those they may be elected to represent.

3. Lack of Openness and Accountability

The Age newspaper in Victoria has been known as an ALP supporter with a left-wing bias. However, even they have gone on the attack recently acknowledging the ALP's lack of openness and accountability in Victoria.

4. Support for Criminals

Historically the ALP has been associated with the Union Movement, and historically the Union Movement has been associated with organized crime. This is still evident today with two prominent members of the ALP in Victoria providing references to known criminals.

Firstly, Federal MP Kelvin Thompson gave a reference to convicted cocaine trafficker Tony Mokbel.

Then, Victorian State MP Telmo Languiller was found to be giving references to a known associate of convicted murderer Carl Williams.

The ALP now has control in all Australian states, but it is an important step for all voters to take to ensure that they do not let the ALP have control of the Federal Government as well. All Australian voter's should be encouraged to vote for the Liberal Party of Australia to ensure that Kevin Rudd cannot take Australia into the dark ages.

About the Author

Hamish Jones is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.

He is also the author of the political blog Ranting and Rambling as well as a commentator on It's A Matter of Opinion.

Hamish encourages every Australian to vote Liberal!