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The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party. Historically the most successful political party in Australia’s history, the Liberal Party is now in opposition at a federal level, although it presently holds government in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania at a sub-national level.
The current leader of the faction is Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton. [21] [failed verification] As of the 2022 Australian federal election, the National Right is the Liberal Party's largest faction, with 27 of 65 Liberal MPs aligned with the faction. [22]
The Menzies Research Centre was founded in 1994 and is named in honour of Sir Robert Menzies, the founder of the Liberal Party of Australia and Australia's longest-serving prime minister. It is the think-tank of the Liberal Party of Australia. [citation needed]
The Centre Right Faction or Centre Right Group [6] [8] [9] is a faction within the federal Australian Liberal Party that makeup one of its four major factions, with the other factions as of 2023 being the Moderate and Centrist factions to its left and the National Right to its right.
The Liberal Party is a broad church. You sometimes have to get the builders in to put in the extra pew on both sides of the aisle to make sure that everybody is accommodated. But it is a broad church and we should never as members of the Liberal Party of Australia lose sight of the fact that we are the trustees of two great political traditions.
The Liberal National Party of Queensland, formed in 2008, is a branch of the Liberal Party, but it is affiliated with the Nationals and members elected to federal parliament may sit as either Liberals or Nationals. [10] The Country Liberal Party was formed in 1978 when the Northern Territory gained responsible government. [11]
Fightback! was a 650-page economic policy package document proposed by John Hewson, federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Leader of the Opposition from 1990 to 1994. It represented the start of their new economic liberal future policy direction, very different from the Keynesianism they previously practised.
The Libertarian Party (LP), formerly known as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is an Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government and supports policies that are based on classical liberal , libertarian principles, [ 10 ] such as lower taxes, opposing restrictions on civil liberties ...