Abstract
When the Labor Party entered Parliament in N.S.W. in 1891, it intended not to compete with the other two parties for ministerial positions but rather to act as a third party which would offer 'support in return for concessions' and use its numbers to maintain in office whichever party offered the more attractive programme.1 As Crisp points out, This meant that party discipline within the House had to be strict,2 and therefore the Labor Party devised rules and procedures designed to produce the necessary solidarity in divisions. The result, so historians have claimed, was to force the other parties to follow Labor's example of parliamentary organisation. J. D. B. Miller writes:
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