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Australia/Liberal Party (Political party) | |
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Formation | 1944 |
Founder | Robert Menzies |
Member of | International Democrat Union |
Sees itself as state-bearing party |
The Liberal Party of Australia (LP) is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party.[1]
The Liberal Party is the larger and dominant party in the Coalition with the countryside-based National Party of Australia. Except for a few short periods, the Liberal Party and its predecessors have operated in similar coalitions at federal level since the 1920s.
Menzies Era
After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election, and the party stayed in office for a record 23 years— the longest unbroken run ever in government at the federal level. Australia experienced prolonged economic growth during the post-war boom period of the Menzies Government (1949–1966) and Menzies fulfilled his promises at the 1949 election to end rationing of butter, tea and petrol and provided a five-shilling endowment for first-born children, as well as for others.[2]
While himself an unashamed anglophile, allowing British testing of nuclear weapons in Australia, Menzies' government concluded a number of major defence and trade treaties that set Australia on its post-war trajectory out of Britain's orbit and tied it to the United States; including the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the highly strategic spy base in Pine Gap.
Related Quotation
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AIJAC/Rambam Programs | “The hold of the Israel lobby over Australian politicians is based on two facts: first, donations to the political parties from the Jewish community leadership; second, paid trips to Israel extended to every member of parliament and journalists. From the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) over 700 trips alone. This political influence is particularly noticeable with the Victorian ALP Right and deserves some examination by journalistic sleuths, who seem reluctant to touch the subject. No other community, in my experience, treats politicians as their poodles, even when making a political case...” | Bob Carr | 2018 |
Party Members
Politician | Born | Died | Description |
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Tony Abbott | 4 November 1957 | "The delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift"... | |
Robert Askin | 4 April 1907 | 9 September 1981 | Premier of New South Wales 1965-1975. "A friend of organised crime" |
Gladys Berejiklian | 22 September 1970 | Australian politician; Premier of New South Wales who was blackmailed into vaccine lockdowns. | |
Julie Bishop | 17 July 1956 | Australian former politician. | |
Andrew Bragg | 11 July 1984 | Australian Senator; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021 | |
Neil Brown | 22 February 1940 | An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg | |
Richard Casey | 29 August 1890 | 17 June 1976 | Australian who founded ASIS |
Mathias Cormann | 20 September 1970 | Belgian-born Australian politician, Secretary-General of the OECD. | |
Peter Costello | 14 August 1957 | WEF GLT 1998, IMF, politician, Treasurer of Australia 1996-2007 | |
Nick Greiner | 27 April 1947 | Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. | |
Terry Griffiths | 22 June 1944 | 8 June 2009 | During his time as CEO of The Scout Association in the 1980s, serial sexual abuse by NSW scout leaders took place. Resigned as NSW Police Minister over claims of sexual harassment. |
Andrew Hastie | 30 September 1982 | ||
Brad Hazzard | 30 August 1951 | health Minister of New South Wales during COVID. | |
Robert M. Hill | 25 September 1946 | ||
John Howard | 26 July 1939 | ||
Greg Hunt | 18 November 1965 | Australian Minister for Health responsible for the government's actions in the COVID-19 deep event. Decades of grooming by the World Economic Forum. | |
Jeff Kennett | March 1948 | [Premier of Victoria | |
William McMahon | 23 February 1908 | 31 March 1988 | |
Ray O'Connor | 6 March 1926 | 25 February 2013 | |
Barry O'Farrell | 24 May 1959 | ||
Philip Ruddock | 12 March 1943 | Spooky Australian Attorney General. |
References
- ↑ hhttps://web.archive.org/web/20180724153950/https://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2016/08/28/interview-barrie-cassidy-insiders-abc
- ↑ Brian Carroll; From Barton to Fraser; Cassell Australia; 1978