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==Electoral repercussions==
==Electoral repercussions==
At the ensuing [[Victorian state election, 1955|May 1955 state election]], the expelled members and others stood as the [[Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)]]. It drew 12.6% of the vote, mainly from the ALP, but because its vote was widely spread only one of its candidates, the expelled Labor member Frank Scully, was re-elected. The party directed its 12.6% vote to the Coalition, and most of its supporters followed the party's preferences. Labor won 37.6% of the vote and 20 seats to the Liberals' 34 and the Country Party's ten.
At the ensuing [[Victorian state election, 1955|May 1955 Victorian state election]], the expelled members and others stood as the [[Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)]]. It drew 12.6% of the vote, mainly from the ALP, but because its vote was widely spread only one of its candidates, the expelled Labor member Frank Scully, was re-elected. The party directed its 12.6% vote to the Coalition, and most of its supporters followed the party's preferences. Labor won 37.6% of the vote and 20 seats to the Liberals' 34 and the Country Party's ten.


The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) went on in 1957 to be the nucleus of the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|Democratic Labor Party]].<ref name="OPH_Exhibitions_PetrovAffair_TheSplit"/><ref>{{cite book | author=[[Wendy Lewis (writer)|Wendy Lewis]], Simon Balderstone and John Bowan | title=Events That Shaped Australia | pages=201–206 | publisher=New Holland | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-74110-492-9 }}</ref>
The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) went on in 1957 to be the nucleus of the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|Democratic Labor Party]].<ref name="OPH_Exhibitions_PetrovAffair_TheSplit"/><ref>{{cite book | author=[[Wendy Lewis (writer)|Wendy Lewis]], Simon Balderstone and John Bowan | title=Events That Shaped Australia | pages=201–206 | publisher=New Holland | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-74110-492-9 }}</ref>


At the [[Victorian state election, 1958|1958 state election]], similar tactics were used. The DLP won 14.4% of the vote but even Scully lost his seat, and most of the preferences went to the Coalition. The ALP received 37.7% of the vote.
At the [[Victorian state election, 1958|1958 Victorian state election]], similar tactics were used. The DLP won 14.4% of the vote but even Scully lost his seat, and most of the preferences went to the Coalition. The ALP received 37.7% of the vote.


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In [[Queensland]], Labor Premier [[Vince Gair]] was expelled from the Labor party in 1957.<ref name="ANU_AustralianDictionaryofBiographyOnline_VincentGair">{{cite web|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140269b.html|title=Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) Biographical Entry – Australian Dictionary of Biography Online|publisher=[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ Australian Dictionary of Biography Online] [[Australian National University]]|accessdate=3 November 2010}}</ref> Gair had previously attempted to mobilise the [[Industrial Groups]] to counteract a perceived communist influence of the [[Australian Workers' Union]] in the [[Queensland Trades and Labor Council]]. With other Queensland caucus members, Gair went on to form the [[Queensland Labor Party]]. As happened two years earlier in Victoria, the split destroyed the Labor government; Gair was defeated on a no-confidence motion, and in the resulting election the two wings of Labor were reduced to only 31 seats between them. Labor would remain in opposition until 1989. Gair's QLP was absorbed into the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|DLP]] in 1962.<ref name="ANU_AustralianDictionaryofBiographyOnline_VincentGair"/>
==Sate politics==
The split had ramifications in Labor politics in several [[States and Territories of Australia|Australian states]].

===Victoria===
In [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], the home state of Movement leaders B. A. Santamaria and Archbishop Daniel Mannix, the split destroyed the state government of [[John Cain (senior)|John Cain senior]]<ref name=austin2007>Paul Austin [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/cain-warns-on-dlp-comeback/2007/02/15/1171405371017.html Cain warns on DLP comeback] ''[[The Age]]'' 16 February 2007</ref> after the ALP federal executive expelled "disloyal" members. On 20 April, eleven members of what was known as the [[William Barry (Australian politician)|Barry]]–[[Leslie Coleman|Coleman]] group [[Crossing the floor|crossed the floor]] to vote with [[Henry Bolte]]'s [[Liberal and Country Party]] in a [[motion of no confidence]] against the Cain government.

===Queensland===
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In [[Queensland]], Premier [[Vince Gair]] was expelled from the Labor party in 1957.<ref name="ANU_AustralianDictionaryofBiographyOnline_VincentGair">{{cite web|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140269b.html|title=Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) Biographical Entry – Australian Dictionary of Biography Online|publisher=[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ Australian Dictionary of Biography Online] [[Australian National University]]|accessdate=3 November 2010}}</ref> Gair had previously attempted to mobilise the [[Industrial Groups]] to counteract a perceived communist influence of the [[Australian Workers' Union]] in the [[Queensland Trades and Labor Council]]. With other Queensland caucus members, Gair went on to form the [[Queensland Labor Party]]. As happened two years earlier in Victoria, the split destroyed the Labor government; Gair was defeated on a no-confidence motion, and in the resulting election the two wings of Labor were reduced to only 31 seats between them. Labor would remain in opposition until 1989. Gair's QLP was absorbed into the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|DLP]] in 1962.<ref name="ANU_AustralianDictionaryofBiographyOnline_VincentGair"/>

===Western Australia===
The member for [[Division of Perth|Perth]], [[Tom Burke (Australian politician)|Tom Burke]] was closely associated with the Catholic-instigated opposition to H. V. Evatt but refrained from joining the new party which became the DLP. With [[Kim Beazley (senior)]] and others, Burke was banned for three years from representing Western Australia at federal conferences.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
|last= Bolton
|first= G. C.
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|year= 1993
|id= A130344b
|title= Burke, Thomas Patrick (Tom) (1910–1973)
|accessdate=19 February 2008}}</ref>


==Long-term consequences==
==Long-term consequences==

Revision as of 14:26, 21 November 2013

The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 was a split within the Australian Labor Party along sectarian and ideological lines in the mid-1950s. With the exception of the consequences of The Petrov Affair, the Liberal/Country Coalition had little or no influence on the split; it was essentially an internal conflict between elements of the Australian Labor Party. Key players in the split were the federal opposition leader H. V. "Doc" Evatt and B. A. Santamaria, the dominant force behind the "Catholic Social Studies Movement" or "the Movement".

I have witnessed three disastrous splits in the Australian Labor Party during the past fifty-six years. ... The first split occurred in 1916 over conscription in World War I; the second in 1931 over the Premiers' Plan for economic recovery in the Great Depression; and the third in 1955 over alleged communist infiltration of the trade union movement. The last was the worst of the three, because the party has not yet healed the wounds that resulted from it.
'[1]Arthur Calwell, Be Just and Fear Not, p 188

Evatt denounced the influence of Santamaria's Movement on 5 October 1954, about 4 months after the 1954 federal election. The Victorian ALP state executive was officially dissolved, but both factions sent delegates to the 1955 Labor Party conference in Hobart. Movement delegates were excluded from the conference. They withdrew from the Labor party, going on to form the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) which in 1957 became the Democratic Labor Party. The split then moved from federal level to states, predominantly Victoria and Queensland.

Historians, journalists, and political scientists have observed that the split was not a single event but a process that occurred over the early 1950s in state and federal Labor parties. The conservative Catholic and staunchly anti-Labor Democratic Labor Party has used Australia's full-preference instant-runoff voting system to direct its preferences to benefit the Coalition two-party-preferred vote and was successful until 1972 in preventing the election of an Australian Labor Party federal government.

Terminology

The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 is also referred to as the "Labor split of 1955",[2] the "Labor split of 1954–55"[3] or within the context of the Australian Labor Party and Roman Catholicism in Australia simply "the split".[4][5][6]

Background

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was an effort by Communists to infiltrate trade unions in Australia.[7][8] In response, the Labor party instituted "industrial groups" within trade unions to counter the perceived Communist threat.[8]

In Melbourne in the 1930s, a group of the city's Catholics, predominantly lawyers, formed "The Campion Society" and published "The Catholic Worker". B. A. Santamaria, then a recent graduate of Melbourne Law School,[9] became its editor. For both Santamaria and his sponsor Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Adolf Hitler's Nazism was a lesser evil than Joseph Stalin. In 1939, Santamaria set up the National Catholic Rural Movement to promote rural interests of Catholic farmers.[10] The NCMR claimed by the mid-1940s branches in all states except Tasmania, and a membership of over 5000. The NCMR promoted its objectives through and within other rural organisations and also politically.[11] By 1941 Santamaria had also set up the "Catholic Social Studies Movement", commonly known as the "Movement".[12]

Showdown

At the 1954 federal election, held in May, Labor received over 50% of the popular vote and won 57 seats (up 5) to the coalition's 64. In September 1954, journalist Alan Reid published an exposé in The Sydney Sun about Santamaria. He wrote of him that:

"In the tense melodrama of politics there are mysterious figures who stand virtually unnoticed in the wings, invisible to all but a few of the audience, as they cue, Svengali-like, among the actors out on the stage."[13][14]

On 5 October 1954 in a Press release, Dr H. V. Evatt blamed Labor's loss of seats and defeat in the 1954 federal election on "a small minority of members, located particularly in the State of Victoria", which were in conspiracy to undermine him.[15][16] Evatt blamed Santamaria and his supporters in the Victorian Labor Party, called "the Groupers" . Santamaria exercised strong influence in the Cain government through "Movement" linked ministers such as William Barry, Frank Scully and Leslie Coleman. Protestant and left-wing ministers strongly opposed the Movement faction.

On 31 October 1954, the Sydney Sun-Herald reported on a letter sent by the Victorian Minister for Lands, Robert Holt, to the federal secretary of the Australian Labor Party, J. Schmella, which the paper described as 'probably as explosive, politically, as any document in Australia'.[17] Holt stated -

"My charge is that the Victorian branch is controlled and directed in the main by one group or section through Mr. B. Santamaria ... My criticism is not personal. It is leveled against those ideas which are contrary to what I believe Labor policy to be. Moreover, I have been requested by my numerous and trusted friends, who happen to be Catholic, to fight against the influence of Mr. Santamaria and those he represents, when he seeks to implement his ideas through an abuse of a political movement, designed to serve a truly political purpose."[17]

Holt spoke of events the previous year and describes attending a meeting of Santamaria's National Catholic Rural Movement Convention, following which he was, as Minister of Lands, approached by Santamaria and Frank Scully, where he was asked to use his position to make Crown land available to "Italians with foreign capital". When he refused, "Santamaria stated that I might not be in the next parliament", and Scully agreed. Holt considered this 'a direct threat' which was confirmed when another M.L.A. confided that there was 'pressure' to oppose him for party selection for his seat. He added that "subsequent events which happened during the selection ballot' had convinced him that the ALP's 'Victorian branch is not free to implement Labor policy and connives with this method."[17] He concluded by stating his belief in:

'a party machine which permits the true expression of opinion of its members, regardless of who or what they may be. The only requirement is loyalty to Labor ideals and principles. This is not possible in the present circumstances...'[17]

Holt introduced the Land Bill without Santamaria's desired advantage and it was at first amended by another ALP member, then defeated, amended again and passed - with what Santamaria wanted - after two Liberal party members "switched sides".[17] In December 1954, Santamaria launched a suit again Holt for libel, citing the letter published in-full by the Sun-Herald.[18] The libel action was withdrawn, without explanation, in April 1955.[19]

In Victoria, Dr Mannix strongly supported Santamaria, but in New South Wales, Norman Cardinal Gilroy, the first Australian-born Roman Catholic prelate, opposed him, favouring the traditional alliance between the Church and Labor. Gilroy's influence in Rome helped to end official Church support for the Groupers. In January 1955, Santamaria used Dr Mannix as his witness to the statement, "There is no Catholic organisation seeking to dominate the Labor Party or any other political party ... So that there will be no equivocation, Catholics are not associated with any other secular body seeking to dominate the Labor Party or any other political party."[20]

Santamaria made this statement when he denied charges from the general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (Mr T Dougherty) that the "No. 2 man in the Victorian ALP" (Frank McManus), the "No. 2 man in the NSW Labor Party" (J. Kane) and the "secretary of the Australian Rules Football Association of Queensland" (Mr Polgrain) were Santamaria's "top lieutenants in The Movement". For his part, McManus suggested that Dougherty "appeared to have contracted an ailment from one of his political colleagues ... the chief symptom of this ailment was that the sufferer believed he was always detecting conspiracy theories".[20]

In early 1955 the Labor Party's Federal executive dissolved the Victorian state executive and appointed a new executive in its place. Both executives sent delegates to the 1955 National Conference in Hobart, where the delegates from the old executive were excluded from the conference. The Victorian branch then split between pro-Evatt and pro-Santamaria factions, and in March the pro-Evatt state executive suspended 24 members of state Parliament suspected of being Santamaria supporters. (Santamaria was not a party member.) Four ministers were forced to resign from John Cain's Labor government. Four unions were also disaffiliated from the ALP after the split.[21] The unions were the 'right-wing' Federated Clerks Union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.

On the night of 19 April 1955, Henry Bolte raised a motion of no-confidence against Cain's government in the Legislative Assembly. After twelve hours of debate on the motion, in the early hours of 20 April, 11 of the expelled Labor members crossed the floor to support Bolte's motion. With his government defeated, Cain sought and received a dissolution of parliament later that day.[22][23]

Electoral repercussions

At the ensuing May 1955 Victorian state election, the expelled members and others stood as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist). It drew 12.6% of the vote, mainly from the ALP, but because its vote was widely spread only one of its candidates, the expelled Labor member Frank Scully, was re-elected. The party directed its 12.6% vote to the Coalition, and most of its supporters followed the party's preferences. Labor won 37.6% of the vote and 20 seats to the Liberals' 34 and the Country Party's ten.

The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) went on in 1957 to be the nucleus of the Democratic Labor Party.[16][24]

At the 1958 Victorian state election, similar tactics were used. The DLP won 14.4% of the vote but even Scully lost his seat, and most of the preferences went to the Coalition. The ALP received 37.7% of the vote.

In Queensland, Labor Premier Vince Gair was expelled from the Labor party in 1957.[25] Gair had previously attempted to mobilise the Industrial Groups to counteract a perceived communist influence of the Australian Workers' Union in the Queensland Trades and Labor Council. With other Queensland caucus members, Gair went on to form the Queensland Labor Party. As happened two years earlier in Victoria, the split destroyed the Labor government; Gair was defeated on a no-confidence motion, and in the resulting election the two wings of Labor were reduced to only 31 seats between them. Labor would remain in opposition until 1989. Gair's QLP was absorbed into the DLP in 1962.[25]

Long-term consequences

Directing preferences to the Liberals

From the 1955 election until the demise of the party, the DLP directed its supporters to give their electoral preferences to the Liberals, ahead of the ALP. Santamaria intended to keep Labor from winning government until it accepted his terms for reunification. On two occasions--1961 and 1969—Labor actually won a majority of the two-party vote, but DLP preferences resulted in Labor coming up just short of ending the Coalition's hold on government.

References

  1. ^ Calwell, Arthur Augustus (1972). Be just and fear not. Hawthorn, Victoria: Lloyd O'Neil Pty Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85550-352-9.
  2. ^ Costar, Brian (14 July 2005). "The 1955 Bob and Bert Show". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
  3. ^ "The Letters of B. A. Santamaria". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 31 January 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
  4. ^ Clearey, John (15 September 2002). "Keeper of the Faith – Jim Cairns Speaks Out". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
  5. ^ "Old Parliament House – The Split". Museum of Australian Democracy. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  6. ^ Mark Colvin (28 October 2010). "ABC The Drum – I Spry with my little eye". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  8. ^ a b Gavan Duffy (9 April 2005). "AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: The Labor Split – 50 years on – 9 April 2005". News Weekly. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  9. ^ Sexton, Michael (14 June 2003). "The Pope's Battalions – Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split". www.smh.com.au Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2009. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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  12. ^ "Mannix, Daniel (1864–1963)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Australian National University. Retrieved 5 January 2009.
  13. ^ Holt, Stephen (July 2006). "The Ultimate Insider" (PDF). National Library Australia News. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  14. ^ Carr, Bob (17 July 2010). "Sleeping with the Enemy". The Spectator. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  15. ^ Scalmer, Sean (2001). "7". In John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre (ed.). True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. pp. 90–91. ISBN 1-86508-609-6.
  16. ^ a b "Old Parliament House – The Split". Museum of Australian Democracy. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ a b c d e "EXPLOSIVE LETTER ON SANTAMARIA LABOUR MOVEMENT ABUSED. SAYS M.L.A." The Sun-Herald (Sydney, NSW: 1953-1954). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 31 October 1954. p. 5. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  18. ^ "SANTAMARIA SEEKS LIBEL DAMAGES". Examiner (Launceston, Tas.: 1900-1954). Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 14 December 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  19. ^ "Santamaria ends action". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848-1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 1 April 1955. p. 9. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  20. ^ a b "A.W.U. chief's 'movement' charge "UNTRUE," REPLIES Mr. SANTAMARIA". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848-1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 29 January 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  21. ^ "Bitter debate ALP vote keeps union out". The Canberra Times (ACT: 1926-1995). ACT: National Library of Australia. 24 June 1984. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  22. ^ "Victorian Govt. Defeated; Election On May 28". The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1956). Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 21 April 1955. p. 6. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  23. ^ Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955-1958,' in Recorder (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5.
  24. ^ Wendy Lewis, Simon Balderstone and John Bowan (2006). Events That Shaped Australia. New Holland. pp. 201–206. ISBN 978-1-74110-492-9.
  25. ^ a b "Gair, Vincent Clare (Vince) (1901–1980) Biographical Entry – Australian Dictionary of Biography Online". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Australian National University. Retrieved 3 November 2010. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

Further reading

  • Lyle Allan (1988), "Irish ethnicity and the Democratic Labor Party," Politics, Vol. 23 No.2, Pages 28–34
  • Niall Brennan (1964), Dr Mannix, Adelaide, South Australia, Rigby.
  • Ken Buckley, Barbara Dale and Wayne Reynolds (1994), Doc Evatt, Melbourne, Victoria, Longman Cheshire. ISBN 0-582-87498-X
  • A.A.Calwell (1972), Be Just and Fear Not, Hawthorn, Victoria, Lloyd O'Neil. ISBN 0-85550-352-1
  • Bob Corcoran (2001), "The Manifold Causes of the Labor Split", in Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds.), Arguing the Cold War, Carlton North, Victoria, Red Rag Publications. ISBN 0-9577352-6-X
  • Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds.)(2005), The Great Labor Schism. A Retrospective, Melbourne, Victoria, Scribe Publications. ISBN 1-920769-42-0
  • Peter Crockett (1993), Evatt. A Life, South Melbourne, Victoria, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553558-8
  • Allan Dalziel (1967), Evatt. The Enigma, Melbourne, Victoria, Lansdowne Press.
  • Gavan Duffy (2002), Demons and Democrats. 1950s Labor at the Crossroads, North Melbourne, Victoria, Freedom Publishing. ISBN 0-9578682-2-7
  • Bruce Duncan (2001), Crusade or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia, Sydney, NSW, University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 0-86840-731-3
  • Gil Duthie (1984), I had 50,000 bosses. Memoirs of a Labor backbencher 1946–1975, Sydney, NSW, Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0-207-14916-X
  • John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre (eds.)(2001), True Believers. The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Crows Nest, NSW, Allen and Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-527-8
  • Ross Fitzgerald, Adam James Carr and William J. Deally, (2003), The Pope's Battalions. Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split, St Lucia, Queensland, University of Queensland Press. ISBN 0-7022-3389-7
  • Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt (2010), Alan "The Red Fox" Reid. Pressman Par Excellence, Sydney, NSW, University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 978-1-74223-132-7
  • Gerard Henderson (1982), Mr Santamaria and the Bishops, Sydney, NSW, Studies in the Christian Movement. ISBN 0-949807-00-1
  • Jack Kane (1989), Exploding the Myths. The Political Memoirs of Jack Kane, North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0-207-16209-3
  • Colm Kiernan (1978), Calwell. A Personal and Political Biography, West Melbourne, Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0-17-005185-4
  • Michael Lyons (2008), "Defence, the Family and the Battler: The Democratic Labor Party and its Legacy," Australian Journal of Political Science, September, 43-3, Pages 425–442.
  • Frank McManus (1977), The Tumult and the Shouting, Adelaide, South Australia, Rigby. ISBN 0-7270-0219-8
  • Frank Mines (1975), Gair, Canberra City, ACT, Arrow Press. ISBN 0-909095-00-0
  • Patrick Morgan (ed.)(2007), B.A.Santamaria. Your Most Obedient Servant. Selected Letters: 1918–1996, Carlton, Victoria, Miegunyah Press. ISBN 0-522-85274-2
  • Patrick Morgan (ed.)(2008), Running the Show. Selected Documents: 1939–1996, Carlton, Victoria, Miegunyah Press. ISBN 978-0-522-85497-8
  • Robert Murray (1970), The Split. Australian Labor in the fifties, Melbourne, Victoria, F.W. Cheshire. ISBN 0-7015-0504-4
  • Paul Ormonde (1972), The Movement, Melbourne, Victoria, Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0-17-001968-3
  • Paul Ormonde (2000), "The Movement – Politics by Remote Control," in Paul Ormonde (ed.) Santamaria. The Politics of Fear, Richmond, Victoria, Spectrum Publications. ISBN 0-86786-294-7
  • P.L Reynolds (1974), The Democratic Labor Party, Milton, Queensland, Jacaranda. ISBN 0-7016-0703-3
  • B.A. Santamaria (1964), The Price of Freedom. The Movement – After Ten Years, Melbourne, Victoria, Campion Press.
  • B.A Santamaria (1981), Against the Tide, Melbourne, Victoria, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-554346-7
  • B.A. Santamaria (1984), Daniel Mannix. A Biography. The Quality of Leadership, Carlton, Victoria, University of Melbourne Press. ISBN 0-522-84247-X
  • Kylie Tennant (1970), Evatt. Politics and Justice, Cremorne, NSW, Angus and Robertson. ISBN 0-207-12533-3
  • Tom Truman (1960), Catholic Action and Politics, London, England, The Merlin Press.
  • Kate White (1982), John Cain and Victorian Labor 1917–1957, Sydney, NSW, Hale and Iremonger. ISBN 0-86806-026-7
  • Don Whitington (1964), The Rulers. Fifteen Years of the Liberals, Melbourne, Victoria, Lansdowne Press.
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