(Australian, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
Labor’s formal reconciliation with the federal Constitution during the postwar decades has been a significant development both for the ALP and for Australian politics generally. 1995, Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia′s Constitutional System of Government, page 109:
Labor did not regain office until 1929, and then only for a three-year period. 1984, David Harris Solomon, Australia′s Government and Parliament, page 102:
Nevertheless there is a distinct difference of emphasis, in the sense just indicated, between the two sides of Australian politics. There has always been some international isolationism, too, in Labor circles in Australia. 1970, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Institute of Pacific Relations, Australia and the Pacific, page 10:
(UK, US, alt-of, misspelling, qualifier:Australian spelling) Misspelling of Labour, a UK political party.