Foreign policy issues are set to dominate the final day of the triennial conference in Adelaide, with backbencher and former minister Ed Husic pushing for debate on Israel and Palestine.
The western Sydney MP attempted to move an amendment to the party's platform to introduce stronger criticism of Israel but the Maritime Union of Australia pulled out of seconding the proposal, effectively stifling debate.
Instead, Labor MPs Josh Burns, who is Jewish, and Basem Abdo, who is from a Palestinian background, will address the national conference and endorse the party's platform.
The draft policy platform, which prompted criticism from Israel's embassy to Australia, called for Israel to comply with obligations as an occupying power.
"Labor opposes the annexation of Palestinian territory and wants Israel to bring its illegal settlement activity and the occupation to an end, to see security for Palestine, for Israel and for the region," the policy said.
"Labor urges the government to prevent any support being given to illegal settlement activity or extremist settler violence, and to implement further action and sanctions as necessary."
Debate on AUKUS, which has drawn criticism from rank-and-file Labor members, is also unlikely to get off the ground, with agreements on party positions thrashed out behind the scenes and not on the floor of the conference.
The threat of Pauline Hanson has dominated proceedings at Labor's triennial conference, with One Nation outperforming the government on a primary vote in several opinion polls.
Former federal treasurer and party president Wayne Swan said One Nation and its leader Senator Hanson represented the latest challenge for the party.
"Let's not kid ourselves, the stakes are high," he said at a dinner on Friday night where he was awarded a Labor life membership.
"As our friends across the globe have found, authoritarians can emerge in a flash.
"There are polls now suggesting the tide may be turning on Hanson ... the tide has not turned. We are engaged in the battle.
"The money has not gone anywhere, it has only changed horses."
Mr Swan said the conservative mantle once taken up in his home state of Queensland by former premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was now in the hands of Senator Hanson.
"In Queensland, we know the shape of this fight," he said.
"It runs through the late '80s with Joh, the original Pauline Hanson. We stopped his caravan rolling to Canberra when it looked like it had unstoppable momentum.
"It finds its expression today in the fight against Hanson herself."
Former Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney was also given a life membership of the party.
Speaking at the dinner, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said progress was needed to win voters over.
"Our opponents don't understand progress because they're incapable of delivering it," he said.
"They think politics is about generating anger and division.
"(A Liberal party report on the direction of the coalition) says 'we must find the forgotten people'. They can't even remember where they put them."
The prime minister also addressed his near-fall on an escalator at the conference, footage of which has since gone viral, after it malfunctioned while he was travelling down to give his keynote address.
"When it did come to a standstill, I admit there was a moment when the ladder of opportunity finally made sense," he said, referring to the political slogan of former Labor leader Mark Latham.
"We are proudly a progressive movement, two words that can't be applied to the escalator in this building."
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