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He resigned from the Liberal Party in February 2021 to sit on the crossbench as an independent politician, before announcing that he was joining the United Australia Party in August of that year, and was appointed as the party's leader. [2] [3] [4] Kelly has been widely criticised for spreading misinformation on social media.
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.
Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Part of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 misinformation and COVID-19 misinformation by governments An anti- lockdown protest at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on 25 April 2020 Date 15 March 2020 – 5 December 2022 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Worldwide Caused by Local struggles or opposition to government responses to ...
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 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]
On 27 February, the prime minister activated the Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), [11] stating that the rapid spread of the virus outside of China had prompted the government to elevate its response.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria , when a man who had returned from Wuhan , Hubei Province, China , tested positive ...
Victorian Liberal Party were in support for some of the protests [99] [100] while the federal and other branches of the party either oppose the protest or have an ambiguous position. In addition, various State and Federal Coalition MP's endorse the position of the anti-vax movement and attended their rallies.