Where the Democratic Labour Party stands — platform positions
18 position(s), each sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials (websites, platform documents, white papers) — never from media coverage. Where the party's own materials don't state a position, nothing is shown.
Immigration party platform
The party states it wants immigrants who will integrate and assimilate — people who come to Australia to work, contribute to society and see themselves as "one of us" — and it believes in fostering one national identity and national allegiance while rejecting politically-imposed multiculturalism.
Economic nationalism party platform
The party bases its economics on distributism, described as a third way opposed to both laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism, in which trade and industry are controlled by as many private owners as possible for the purpose of national self-reliance, favouring local ownership and local production over overseas mass production. It supports a fair trade system giving the greatest benefit to Australian manufacturers and farmers and would limit imports from countries that do not provide basic workers' rights.
Foreign policy & aid party platform
The party's foreign affairs policy calls for increasing foreign aid to place Australia in the top 10 countries by percentage of GDP, directed to humanitarian and development projects in the region with a significant share delivered as Australian-made goods and services; it supports consistent diplomatic, trade and cultural embargoes on regimes guilty of aggression, human rights abuses and breaches of international law, and calls for UN observers, special autonomy and an eventual independence vote in West Papua while maintaining friendly relations with Indonesia.
Abortion & reproductive policy party platform
The party states it affirms the value and inalienable dignity of human life and supports life from conception through to natural death; its materials also describe the Infant Viability Bill it introduced, which would have ended abortion from the 24th week of pregnancy, required care for infants born alive with intent to save their lives, and required practical support for mothers presenting in distress in later pregnancy.
Voluntary assisted dying party platform
The party's policies are stated to be built on the principle that every human life has intrinsic value and dignity, supporting life from conception right through to its end, and it has published material opposing state euthanasia legislation as seriously flawed while defending conscientious objection in the medical and nursing professions.
Gender & LGBTQ+ policy party platform
The party pledges to mandate that athletes may only compete as the biological sex they were born with, to remove school programs that push "contested radical gender theory" or usurp parents' consent or knowledge of their child's medical care, to end efforts to remove "women" from medical descriptions with biological sex determining titles, and to repeal provisions of "anti-conversion" laws banning change or suppression of gender identity.
Religious freedom party platform
The party states it is committed to defending and protecting freedom of religion, speech and conscience, which it says are being eroded by radical ideologies attacking traditional institutions; it highlights denial of freedom of conscience within the medical profession and opposes the removal of religious organisations' ability to employ staff who share their beliefs.
Drugs & law and order party platform
The party pledges to repeal "permissive" drug laws, abolish "safe injecting rooms," and punish illegal hard drug possession with compulsory detoxification via a mandatory choice of prison or rehabilitation, with incarceration for non-compliance; it also proposes mandatory jail terms with 75%-of-sentence minimum non-parole periods for violent crimes and mandatory life sentences for three-time violent offenders.
Gambling & gaming reform party platform
The party states that current poker machine policies and practices "exploit the poor, the lonely and the ignorant" and pledges to fight to have them changed.
Native forest logging party platform
The party's Tasmanian branch page states it supports the timber industry, alongside mining, as a cornerstone industry for Tasmania, describes timber workers as successful guardians of the forests for generations, and firmly opposes locking up state forests into "one giant National Park."
Nuclear & uranium party platform
The party states the ban on nuclear technologies should be lifted and supports nuclear power for electricity generation where price-comparable with other baseload generation, as well as for medical research and ship and submarine propulsion; it points to small modular reactors as faster and cheaper to build with improved safety, and encourages exploration of thorium power plants.
Housing & planning party platform
The party's housing policy states all public housing must be owned and titled by federal, state or municipal governments, with rents capped at 25% of earnings (15% for people in ill health or with disability) and public housing offered for sale to tenants crediting the last ten years' rent as a deposit; it proposes fast-tracking residential land development, a First Home Buyers register guaranteeing an offer of vacant land within 12 months at a set price, ending negative gearing on second and subsequent investment properties, and discouraging foreign buyers through measures including a 17.5% tax on foreign purchases of residential property.
Health party platform
The party proposes expanding public hospital capacity and workforce, including mandating maximum one-hour emergency department waits as performance benchmarks, increasing doctor, nurse and hospital bed numbers, capping the ratio of bureaucrats to front-line clinicians, and increasing the Medicare levy while raising the private health insurance tax offset.
Education party platform
The party proposes education vouchers giving all children an equal share of public education funding payable to schools of parents' choice, including to parents of home-schooled children, a curriculum redesign focused on academic rigour and practical work skills, and banning the teaching of "radical race and gender material" and "climate change alarmism" in public schools.
Transport & infrastructure party platform
The party proposes cutting public transport fares (rail, bus and ferry) by 25%, halving petrol and diesel vehicle registration fees, cutting driver licence charges by 25%, and building very high speed rail links between state capitals and major regional towns.
Energy party platform
The party's energy policy prioritises the lowest-cost and most reliable supply and an energy self-sufficient Australia, supporting high-efficiency low-emissions (HELE) coal-fired power stations, a domestic gas reserve with an Australian price (opposing gas import terminals), and opposing heavy subsidies for wind and solar; it states the climate evolves through natural cycles and rejects claims that human CO2 emissions are causing catastrophic warming, opposing the net zero by 2050 target.
Environment & water party platform
The party advocates building new dams for flood mitigation and to redistribute saved water to drought-prone areas, with greater water allocations to farmers to strengthen the agricultural industry and make Australia the food bowl of the Asia-Pacific.
Animal welfare party platform
The party's live animal exports policy states it is not opposed to live exports only if humane treatment of animals in transit and in the receiving country can be guaranteed; since policing treatment in other countries is unlikely, it prefers to "err on the side of the animal" and proposes that animal products for export be processed in Australia under humane conditions and exported as finished products.
Compare with other parties: Immigration · Economic nationalism · Foreign policy & aid · Abortion & reproductive policy · Voluntary assisted dying · Gender & LGBTQ+ policy · Religious freedom · Drugs & law and order · Gambling & gaming reform · Native forest logging · Nuclear & uranium · Housing & planning · Health · Education · Transport & infrastructure · Energy · Environment & water · Animal welfare.
Political compass placement
Economic -3, social +6 (medium confidence) — researched party-level placement, not a score computed from this database. Retains traditional-Labor protectionist economics (worker profit-sharing, opposition to foreign asset sell-offs) left of centre, combined with strongly traditionalist social positions from its Catholic anti-communist heritage.
Members & candidates on record
- Adem Somyurek — Democratic Labour Party · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Council · Northern Metropolitan (VIC) · incumbent