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| x Australian Labor Party |
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Australia | Peter Garrett |
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party.
Known as the ALP for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the 2007 federal election. Kevin Rudd is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime...
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| x Australian Democrats |
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Australia | Don Chipp | 1977 |
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a centrist or social liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after principals of those minor parties secured the...
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| x Country Liberal Party |
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Australia | Denis Burke |
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the Liberal and National parties. It is a member of the Coalition.
The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its...
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| x Liberal Party of Australia |
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Australia | John Howard |
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political...
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| x National Party of Australia |
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Australia | Earle Page |
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.
Traditionally representing rural voters, it was originally called the Country Party, but adopted the name National Country Party in 1975 and changed to its present name in 1982....
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| x One Nation Party |
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Australia | Graeme Campbell |
One Nation is a nationalist and protectionist political party in Australia. It gained 22 percent of the vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election and made major inroads into the...
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| x Australian Greens |
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Australia | Kerry Nettle |
The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Green Australian political party.
The party has its eastern Australian origins in the Franklin River Dams campaign in Tasmania in the 1980s, and in Western Australia arising from concerns...
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| x Family First Party |
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Australia | Steve Fielding |
The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has parliamentary representation federally through Senator Steve Fielding, and in the South Australian Legislative Council.
The party was founded in South...
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| x Christian Democratic Party |
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Australia | Fred Nile |
The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) is a minor political party in Australia. Its leader is Fred Nile, a Congregational Church minister and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Originally established as the “Call to Australia Party”...
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| x Progressive Labour Party | Australia |
The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) is a minor political party in Australia. The party is a broad left-wing party started by, among others, dissident former members of the Australian Labor Party in 1996. The party alleges that Labor has abandoned its...
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| x Great Australians Party |
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Great Australians is an Australian political party. The party was founded in 2003 by John James Cumming, and is currently led by John Rivett, a Queensland businessman who has started and run many businesses during his life. Its policies include the...
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| x Fishing Party | Australia |
The Fishing Party (TFP) is a minor Australian political party whose primary support base is found among recreational fishermen and women. The party was founded by Robert Smith in July 2000 and it has branches in several Australian states. It is...
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| x New Country Party | Australia |
The New Country Party is a minor political party in Australia. It emerged out of the internal divisions of the One Nation Party in Queensland and Western Australia in 2003 (in a similar fashion to the City Country Alliance) and was registered by the...
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| x Non-Custodial Parents Party | Australia |
The Non-Custodial Parents Party is a minor Australian political party. It supports less government control of many aspects of daily life. In particular, it puts forward a number of policies in the areas of family law aimed at assisting parents who...
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| x Outdoor Recreation Party | Australia |
The Outdoor Recreation Party is a minor political party in Australia. It largely represents the outdoor community and such interests as camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, skiing, walking, fishing lobbies, as well as similar recreational groups...
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| x People Power Party |
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People Power is a populist political movement in Australia that was Federally registered as a political party in March 2006. The party contested its first election in the Victorian state election, 2006.
The party's mission statement is to act in the...
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| x Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party | Australia |
The Sun-Ripened Warm Tomato Party is a joke party that stood candidates in the first Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly elections in 1989. It received 1.17 percent of the vote and its preferences went to elect Residents Rally...
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| x Independents Group | Australia |
The Independents Group were a short-lived Australian political party operating in the Australian Capital Territory. They briefly served as part of the Alliance government, alongside the Liberal Party of Australia and Residents Rally.
When the 1989...
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| x Australian Party | Australia | Billy Hughes |
The Australian Party was a shortlived party that existed from 1930 until 1931 (not to be confused with the Australia Party, which was a liberal party created in the 1960s).
It was created by former Prime Minister Billy Hughes in 1930, after his...
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| x HEMP Party | Australia |
The Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party is an Australian political party which advocates the legalisation of cannabis.
The group was founded in 1993 by Nigel Quinlan, who ran as a candidate under the name Nigel Freemarijuana. In 2001,...
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| x Australians Against Further Immigration | Australia |
Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) is an Australian political party who describe themselves as "eco-nationalists" and who are against positive net immigration. The party was founded in 1989 and registered in 1990 by Rodney and Robyn...
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| x Party for the New Path | Australia |
The Party for the New Path is an unofficial political organisation. Operating with the ambition of becoming an official Social Democratic Party, it is dedicated to the introduction of new political policies and ideas. It operates in the Commonwealth...
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| x The Nationals South Australia |
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The Nationals SA are a sub-division of the National Party of Australia. First contesting the 1965 elections, the party has only held two seats at alternating periods; Peter Blacker (1973-1993) in Flinders and Karlene Maywald (1997-current) in...
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| x Party! Party! Party! | Australia |
Party! Party! Party! was a short-lived political party in Australia. It ran in only one election, the 1989 Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly election. It received 979 votes (0.69% of the vote).
As a result of the lax party...
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| x Democratic Labor Party |
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Australia | Jack Kane |
The Democratic Labor Party (abbreviated as the DLP) was an Australian political party that existed from 1955 until 1978.
The DLP was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1954. The split was between the party's...
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| x Commonwealth Liberal Party | Australia | Alfred Deakin | 1909 |
The Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP, also known as The Fusion, or the Deakinite Liberal Party) was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation.
In 1909 Alfred Deakin, the leader of the Protectionist Party...
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| x Australian Progressive Alliance | Australia | Meg Lees | Apr 2003 |
The Australian Progressive Alliance (APA) was a minor liberal party in Australia. The party was formed by Senator Meg Lees, the former leader of the Australian Democrats, in April 2003. The party is no longer active, having been voluntarily...
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| x Australia First Party |
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Australia | Graeme Campbell |
The Australia First Party (AFP) is the name of two minor political parties in Australia, led by Diane Teasdale and led by Jim Saleam in NSW . The party's policies are nationalist, anti-immigration, and opposed to contemporary multiculturalism. The...
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| x Australia Party | Australia |
The Australia Party was the name of a minor political party in Australia (not to be confused with the Australian Party, which was set up by Billy Hughes in 1930).
The Australia Party grew out of the Liberal Reform Group, a group of members of the...
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| x Imperial British Conservative Party | Australia |
The Imperial British Conservative Party was a farcical political party founded by The Wizard of New Zealand. It was dedicated to the grand traditions of British Imperialism in the face of capitalism, globalisation and the distinct lack of culture in...
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| x Liberals for Forests | Australia | Janet Woollard |
liberals for forests is an Australian political minor party. It has contested both state and federal elections in recent years, but has only achieved one elected representative - Janet Woollard (elected as an Independent) in Western Australia. It...
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| x Advance Australia Party |
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The Advance Australia Party (AAP) is a minor political party in Australia, formed in an attempt to provide an alternative for those voters disillusioned with the free-market "economic rationalist" policies pursued by both the Liberal and Labor...
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| x Tasmania First Party | Australia |
The Tasmania First Party is a minor Australian political party which operates exclusively in the state of Tasmania. The party was begun by members of the Tasmanian Firearms Owners Association in response to the Howard Government's 1996 National...
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| x NSW Socialist Left | Australia |
NSW Socialist Left is a New South Wales branch of the Socialist Left faction within the Australian Labor Party, typically supporting more socialist policies.
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| x Nuclear Disarmament Party | Australia | Jo Vallentine |
The Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) is a political party in Australia. The party was formed in 1984 and enjoyed considerable initial success.
The NDP was founded by a Canberra doctor and peace activist, Dr Michael Denborough, in response to the...
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| x Nationalist Party of Australia | Australia | Billy Hughes |
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors...
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| x United Tasmania Group |
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The United Tasmania Group (UTG) is generally acknowledged as the world's first Green Party. The party was formed on 23 March 1972, during a meeting of the Lake Pedder Action Group (LPAG) at the Hobart town hall in order to field political candidates...
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| x Liberal Reform Party | Australia |
The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics and was aligned with the federal Free Trade Party. It emerged after federation in 1901, which spurred the development of political parties in states...
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| x Socialist Alliance | Australia |
The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations and individuals in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation along with 6 other founding socialist...
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| x The Secular Party of Australia | Australia |
The Secular Party of Australia (the Secular Party) is a minor Australian political party founded in late 2005. It supports Humanist ethical principles with its political agenda being:
In 2005, The Secular Party took out a series of advertisements...
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| x Liberal Democratic Party |
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Australia |
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is a classical liberal (moderate libertarian) Australian political party founded in 2001.
The party has contested the last three ACT elections receiving 1% (2001), 1.3% (2004) and 0.9% (2008) of the vote in the...
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| x Protectionist Party |
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Australia | Edmund Barton |
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide...
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| x Free Trade Party | Australia | George Reid |
The Free Trade Party (officially Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association), renamed in 1906 as the Anti-Socialist Party, was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909. It favoured the abolition of protective tariffs...
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| x Communist Party of Australia |
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The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. It achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted banning in 1951. Though it never presented a major challenge to the established order in...
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| x Australian People's Party | Australia |
The Australian People's Party is a name shared by a number of short-lived political parties in Australia's history.
From Federation to 1911 a party of that name existed contesting rural seats. It merged with the Commonwealth Liberal Party to form...
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| x Libertarian Party |
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The Libertarian Party is a small Australian political party founded in 2005 which purports to adhere to free market principles very similar to those of the United States Libertarian Party. The party claims members in three states but it is not...
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| x Australian Labor Party | Australia | Bill Bryson |
The Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) (ALP-AC) was the name initially used by the right-wing group which split away from the Australian Labor Party in 1955, and which later became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.
In April 1955, seven...
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| x New Era Communist Party | Australia |
New Era Communist Party was the name of the informal group of ex-members of the CPA in Queensland who did not affiliate with the Search Foundation following the liquidation of the Communist Party of Australia and who published New Era.
Following...
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| x Democratic Labor Party | Australia | Peter Kavanagh |
The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. It is descended from, but not legally the same as, the Democratic Labor Party which existed from 1955 to 1978, and which...
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| x Douglas Credit Party | Australia |
The Douglas Credit Party was an Australian political party based around the social credit theory of monetary reform, first set out by C. H. Douglas. It gained its strongest result in Queensland in 1935, when it gained 7.02% of first preferences. The...
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| x Communist Party of Australia | Australia |
The Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) (CPA(ML)) is an Australian political party based on the writings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. The party describes its ideology as Marxism-Leninism, and does not use...
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| x Shooters Party |
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Australia | Robert Leslie Brown |
The Shooters Party is an Australian state political party. It is registered for state elections in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
The Shooters Party came into existence on May 2, 1992 when the New South Wales Government proposed laws...
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| x Liberal Movement |
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Australia | Martin Cameron | 1973 |
The Liberal Movement (LM) was a minor South Australian political party in the 1970s. Stemming from discontent within the ranks of the Liberal and Country League, it was organised in 1972 by former premier Steele Hall as an internal group in response...
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| x National Labor Party | Australia | Billy Hughes |
For other parties of the same or similar name, see National Labour Party
The National Labor Party was the name used by the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party in...
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| x National Front | Australia |
The National Front was an Australian political movement around 1980, and little noted or inactive after that decade.
One account says it was formed as "a branch of the British National Front" in June 1978, in response to the expulsion of two...
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| x Australian Peace Party | Australia |
Founded by Islamic Cleric Taj El-Din Hilaly, the Australian Peace Party is an Australian political party created to represent Muslim interests, claiming not to exclude people of other religions. The party is supported by the political committee of...
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| x Queensland Labor Party | Australia | Condon Byrne | 1957 |
The Queensland Labor Party (QLP) was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair. The party was absorbed into the...
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| x National Action | Australia |
National Action (founded Anzac Day, 1982) was an Australian nationalist political party. It had no representatives in any Australian parliament, at either state or national level. Its ideology dictated that it remain outside the "political system"....
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| x One Nation NSW | Australia |
One Nation NSW is a minor political party, which operates exclusively in the state of New South Wales (NSW). The party is a splinter group of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON). It is a socially conservative populist party on the right of the...
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| x Deadly Serious Party | Australia |
The Deadly Serious Party is a joke party that stood candidates in Australian elections in the 1980s. Its platform included dispatching a flock of killer penguins to protect Australia's coastline from Argentine invasion, an age freeze, and the...
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