Australian Labor Party National Executive
The Australian Labor Party National Executive is an internal body of the Australian Labor Party, one of the major political parties in Australia. Twenty members of the National Executive are elected by the party's National Conference, which is the highest representative body of the party's state and territory branches. The other eight members are party ex-officio members. Members on the Executive may be officials of trade unions affiliated to the party or members of federal or state Parliaments. The ex-officio members are the National President, the National Secretary and two National Vice-Presidents, and the Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, but of these only the party Leader has a vote.
The National Executive is concerned mainly with organisational matters. It does not decide party policy, which is determined by the National Conference. The National Executive does not elect the party's parliamentary leaders, which is done by a ballot of both the Parliamentary Caucus and by the Labor Party's rank-and-file members. The National President or Vice-President are elected by party members. Its most public role is to act as the final arbiter of disputes about parliamentary candidacies. On these matters the National Executive usually votes on factional lines. The Labor Right faction holds a majority on the National Executive, though it did not hold a majority at the 2015 National Conference.
The power of the National Executive extends to the reorganisation of a State Branch. For example, in 1970 to improve the party's chances of electoral success, the National Executive intervened in the Socialist Left controlled Victorian Branch, involving the sacking of State officers and dissolution of the Branch. Less drastic forms of intervention are more common, such as the final arbiter of preselection disputes. The executive has authority over policy as it can interpret the party’s constitution, platform and conference decisions.
Members of the National Executive
, the current members of the National Executive are:| Member type | Member name | Position / title | Faction | State/territory | Voting member |
| Ex-officio members | Wayne Swan | National President | Right | Queensland | No |
| Ex-officio members | Paul Erickson | National Secretary | Left | Victoria | No |
| Ex-officio members | Mark Butler, MP | Senior Vice-President | Left | South Australia | No |
| Ex-officio members | Mich-Elle Myers | Junior Vice-President | Left | Victoria | No |
| Ex-officio members | Anthony Albanese, MP | Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party | Left | New South Wales | Yes |
| Ex-officio members | Jason Byrne | National President, Young Labor | Right | South Australia | No |
| Elected members | Anthony Albanese, MP | Federal Member for Grayndler | Left | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Tim Ayres | New South Wales branch Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union | Left | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Chris Brown | National Secretary of the Health Services Union | Left | Tasmania | Yes |
| Elected members | Senator Kim Carr | Senator for Victoria | Left | Victoria | Yes |
| Elected members | Russ Collison | New South Wales branch Secretary of the Australian Workers Union | Right | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Senator Stephen Conroy | n/a | Right | Victoria | Yes |
| Elected members | Gerard Dwyer | National Secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association | Right | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Nadine Flood | National Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union | Left | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | David Gray | Left | South Australia | Yes | |
| Elected members | Tim Kennedy | National Secretary of the National Union of Workers | Right | Victoria | Yes |
| Elected members | Senator Sue Lines | Senator for Western Australia | Left | Western Australia | Yes |
| Elected members | Peter Malinauskas, MP | n/a | Right | South Australia | Yes |
| Elected members | Senator Claire Moore | Senator for Queensland | Left | Queensland | Yes |
| Elected members | Tara Moriarty | New South Wales branch Secretary of the Liquor and Hospitality Division, United Voice | Right | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Charis Mullen, MLA | n/a | Right | Queensland | Yes |
| Elected members | Kaila Murnain | State Secretary of the Australian Labor Party | Right | New South Wales | Yes |
| Elected members | Michael Ravbar | National Vice President of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union | Left | Queensland | Yes |
| Elected members | Michelle Roberts, MLA | n/a | Right | Western Australia | Yes |
| Elected members | Shannon Threlfall-Clarke | Vice President of the Australian Workers Union, Victorian Branch | Right | Victoria | Yes |
| Elected members | Linda White | Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Services Union | Left | Victoria | Yes |
Executive leaders
National Presidents
National Secretaries
- Cyril Wyndam was the first full time Secretary. Prior to 1963 the position was not full time