The Independent Labor Group was a minor Australian political grouping in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1959 to 1977.
[1] Eight Labor MLCs were expelled in 1959, and they were formally constituted as the Independent Labor Group on 22 August 1961, electing Thomas Gleeson as their leader.
They held the balance of power throughout most of the early 1960s, increasing their numbers to ten in 1961, when the Coalition aided the election of Amelia Rygate.
[2] In the late 1960s, however, the group's power began to diminish.
The last Independent Labor representative, Cyril Cahill, died in 1977.