STATEMENT FROM ALP NATIONAL SECRETARY PAUL ERICKSON

Election of the ALP National President and Two Vice Presidents

The Australian Labor Party has concluded elections for ALP National President and two Vice-Presidents. 

Wayne Swan has been re-elected as ALP National President, a position he was first elected to in 2018. 

Wayne served in the Federal Parliament as the Member for Lilley for more than two decades. Wayne was Treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2013. 

Susan Close MP has been elected as ALP National Vice-President. 

Susan is the Deputy Premier of South Australia and has been Member for Port Adelaide in the South Australian Parliament since 2012. Susan is the Minister for Climate, Environment & Water, Minister for Industry, Innovation & Science and Minister for Defence & Space Industries in the Malinauskas Labor Government. 

Mich-Elle Myers has been re-elected as ALP National Vice-President, a position she has held since 2018. 

Mich-Elle is the Campaigns Director and Elected National Divisional Women’s Representative of the Maritime Union of Australia Division of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union.

The 49th ALP National Conference will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from August 17th to August 19th, 2023. 

The term of office for all three positions will commence at the beginning of the National Conference. 

ALP National President Wayne Swan said:

“In my first term as ALP National President we worked together to win Government back. The first year of the Albanese government has shown what a difference Labor makes—on wages, the climate and re-energising and rebuilding Australian industry. 

“Over the next three years I intend to work hard to grow the Australian Labor Party’s membership and make us a stronger force for progressive change. 

“Together with the Prime Minister, the Federal Caucus, the grass roots membership, the trade union movement, our state branches and the National Executive, I know we can do it.”

ALP National Vice-President-elect Susan Close MP said:

“I’m honoured to serve the Australian Labor Party as National Vice-President and am looking forward to working with colleagues and party members to deliver our bold national policy agenda.
 
“While we have recently made significant electoral gains throughout the country, we have no time to lose in creating a fairer, more inclusive, technologically advanced, environmentally sustainable and secure nation.
 
“I’m looking forward to working with party members around the country to deliver Labor’s vision for a better Australia.”

ALP National Vice-President Mich-Elle Myers said:

“I am proud to be a union and worker representative on the ALP National Executive at a time when workers are seeing the advantages of good Labor governments.

“I will continue to represent them as their voices are core to my beliefs and will always be my highest priority.

“The strong, principled, and progressive views of the rank-and-file remain key to a forward-thinking Labor Party that strives for the best for all Australians.”

FRIDAY, 14 APRIL 2023