21st Century DLP
The modern Democratic Labor Party was successful in electing upper house candidates with low primary votes but high-volume preference flows at the 2006 Victorian state election (2.7%) and the 2010 federal election (2.3% in Victoria). Peter Kavanagh served a four-year term in the Victorian Legislative Council, whilst John Madigan began his six-year term in the Australian Senate from July 2011. Thus far, neither has played a balance of power role, unlike their predecessors.
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“Ours is the century of enforced travel ... of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)