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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Australian Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Like other social democratic parties, Labor tends to believe that government is generally a positive force in the community and that it is the responsibility of governments to intervene in the operation of the economy (and society in general) to improve outcomes.
		Party mythology says the first Labour branch was founded at a meeting of striking pastoral workers under a tree (the "Tree of Knowledge") in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891.
		Indeed, during the 1980s the party was responsible for the introduction of many economic policies such as privatisation of government enterprises (such as the Commonwealth Bank, which was itself established by an earlier Labor government), and deregulation of many previously tightly-controlled industries, which are normally the province of conservative governments.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Australian_Labor_Party (2848 words)

	Country Liberal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Australian politics, the Country Liberal Party (CLP) is the Northern Territory equivalent to the Liberal and National parties.
		The CLP's Federal representatives (currently, the party has one Senator, Nigel Scullion, and one MP, Dave Tollner) sit with the National and Liberal parties in the Australian Parliament as part of the Coalition.
		In 1966, the Country Party was well established in the territory, while the Liberal Party was small.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Country_Liberal_Party (324 words)

	National Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Country Party was formally founded in 1922, from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union (VFU) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales (NSW).
		The VFU won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1918, and at the 1919 federal elections the state-based country parties won seats in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.
		By the 1960s the Country Party was losing ground electorally to the Liberals as the rural population declined, and in 1975 it changed its name to the National Country Party as part of a strategy to expand into urban areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Party_of_Australia (1002 words)

	Earle Page
		Born in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, he first entered Parliament in 1919 as member for the electoral seat of Cowper with the Farmers and Settlers' Association, but he was a founding member of the Australian Country Party in 1920, and stayed with the Country Party for the remainder of his long parliamentary career.
		For much of this time the Country Party was the junior party in a coalition government with the United Australia Party and later the Liberal Party of Australia.
		As the Country Party was the junior party, the appointment was only temporary, until the United Australia Party could choose a new leader.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ea/Earle_Page.html (227 words)

	The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History:
		In early 1972 it was alleged that members of the A.L.O.R. had infiltrated Country Party Branches in the federal electorates of Maranoa, Kennedy, Fisher and McPherson in Queensland, Gwydir, Calare and Hume in N.S.W. and Gippsland and Wimmera in Victoria (25).
		Anthony and Sinclair publicly denounced the League, mainly for its infiltration, as did some State Country Party leaders, but broad circulation of the paper proved to be problematic, as the League was able to point to its left wing sources, to the embarrassment of the Party (37).
		What is equally certain is that the Country Party, in its moves to become a 'national' party had alienated and disenchanted many of its traditional constituents, and it seemed unable to exert itself to address what was a social as well as an economic issue.
	www.h-net.org /~anzau/journal/articles/brockett.htm (6771 words)

	Australian Labor Party: History of the Australian Labor Party
		The Australian Labor Party entered federal politics at the first Commonwealth elections of 1901, when 16 Labor members were elected to the House of Representatives and eight to the Senate.
		In its shortened form the Party was frequently referred to as both 'Labor' and 'Labour', however the former spelling was adopted from 1912 onwards, due to the influence of the American labor movement.
		The Party's political fortunes declined in the following years, plunging to a disastrous defeat in the 1966 election, which was dominated by the participation of Australian troops in the Vietnam War and Labor's opposition to the war.
	www.alp.org.au /about/history.php (2608 words)

	Articles - Australian Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Labor also supports a greater level of Australian integration with Asia than the Liberal Party, but this distinction is starting to narrow with increasing Liberal Party support for stronger Asian relationships, especially with Indonesia.
		The two Vice-Presidents are Barry Jones, a veteran party figure who was a minister in the Hawke government, and Dr Carmen Lawrence, a former Premier of Western Australia and minister in the Keating government.
		Many members of the party are critical of the role of the factions and of union leaders, who they accuse of colluding to stifle party democracy.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_Labor_Party (2960 words)

	soc.history.war.vietnam FAQ: Australian Involvement (2/3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A party which was and still is basically a mix of elements of both left and right and designed to represent the interests of the country dwellers and farmers of Australia.
		Australian society has long (and still does, unfortunately amongst some sections) harboured a fear of the "yellow hordes" waiting to "descend upon Australia" and steal it away from the privileged few white colonialists living here.
		The Liberal and Country parties which constituted the government during this period had created their policy on this matter while in opposition at the end of the forties.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/vietnam/australia/part2 (3434 words)

	Party Codes, Demographic Ratings and Seat Status
		Seat Status is based on the two party preferred results of the last election.
		The two party preferred vote refers to the number of votes received by the Labor and Coalition candidates after a full distribution of preferences.
		Where a winning party receives less than 56% of the vote, the seat is classified as ‘marginal’, 56-60% is classified as ‘fairly safe’, and more than 60% is considered ‘safe’.
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/Who/profiles/codes_demographics.htm (148 words)

	Print Article: National Party changes identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Federal director Andrew Hall said the party's state branches and the federal executive had agreed to the change which is part of a wider effort to makeover the party.
		Already the party's NSW branch is known as the Nationals, although other state branches use variations of the name.
		The Australian Country Party was formed in 1920, changing its name to the National Country Party in 1975.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/10/01/1064819975016.html (318 words)

	ZNet \| Third Party \| Not Happy, John!
		In contrast, the Country Party's John McEwen demanded that members of the Communist Party be dealt with "as traitors".
		Australians generally accept that democracy is the best system of government, the market is the most efficient mechanism for economic activity and fair laws are the most powerful instrument for creating and maintaining a society that is free, rational and just.
		It is a measure of the deep cynicism in our party political system that many of the political class deride those who support the evolution of Australia as a fair, tolerant, compassionate society and a good world citizen as an un-Australian, "bleeding-heart" elite, and that the current government inaccurately describes itself as conservative and liberal.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6132§ionID=33 (3399 words)

	The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History:
		Further, the Australian League of Rights, an organisation whose stated objectives were in many ways identical to those of the Country Party in the 1940s, sought to return the Country Party to its original beliefs via a campaign based around a series of economic reforms.
		While the League from time to time cited areas of common ground with the conservative parties (to lay claim to mainstream credentials, critics claimed), the writings of its key activists were steeped in conspiracy theories of history, and rejected the party political system as corrupt and corrupting (1).
		The report prepared in 1971 by the Country Party's National Secretariat, referred to by Brockett, also emphasised this point: 'It is noteworthy that Mr Butler was strongly critical of the NZ social creditors (sic) for forming a party of their own.
	www.h-net.org /~anzau/journal/articles/greason.htm (6572 words)

	Australia: A Nation Changes Direction > The Good News : November/December 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Despite the fact that Australian farmers were left with diminished export markets, most of them, as supporters of the Australian Country Party, remain committed to Australia's constitutional monarchy.
		Australian politicians like a stronger form of centralized government and so will likely opt for simply replacing the queen with a local figurehead, probably a government-appointed senior politician.
		Australians, who have enjoyed more than 200 years of stability under the crown-including almost a century of independence under their present constitution, the third-oldest written constitution in the world-may find they suffer problems similar to other Commonwealth nations if and when they dispense with the services of the House of Windsor.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn13/australia.htm (2007 words)

	Populism in Australian National Politics
		This view is held by the Citizens Electoral Council, and was the policy of the Country City Alliance in the 2001 Queensland election.
		The Green Party of the US, for example, has stated that it supports a 'restructuring of social, political and economic institutions away from a system which is controlled by and mostly benefits the powerful few, to a democratic, less bureaucratic system'.
		The Australian Country Party emerged as a reaction to the way in which the people in cities were said to ignore the interests of country people.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/2002-03/03rn08.htm (1256 words)

	Australian Prime Ministers - skeletons in the closet
		At the subsequent election, the Labor Party lost 91 of the 127 House of Representatives seats.
		Directed that the word "British" be dropped from Australian passports while the Nationality and Citizenship Act was changed to delete "British subject" in the text.
		Was the longest lived Australian prime minister, living to the age of 92 years, six months and ten days.
	www.convictcreations.com /history/primemine.htm (3835 words)

	Merry dance at the country party - Alan Ramsey - www.smh.com.au
		It is 85 years since the then Australian Farmers' Federal Organisation endorsed 19 candidates who won 11 seats (in a House of 75) in the federal election of December 13, 1919.
		Eighty-five years, and 33 elections later, and the Country Party, now the National Party, is a parasite of the Liberal Party in clinging to 12 seats in a House of 150.
		She campaigned for a year, crisscrossed the country lobbying colleagues, never gave up - and will be there, hovering, if David Hawker, like a startled fawn, doesn't quickly lose his bad stage fright from his first week in the chair and start behaving like an MP with his 21 years' seniority.
	smh.com.au /news/Alan-Ramsey/Merry-dance-at-the-country-party/2004/11/19/1100838226873.html (1933 words)

	Australian National Political Attitudes, 1967 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Respondents'' opinions of the political parties and party leaders, their past party affiliations and voting patterns, their own active involvement in party work, and their familiarity with the platforms and performance of local members of both the federal and the state parliaments was ascertained.
		This study is the first in a long-range three part study of the attitudes and behavior of Australians.
		The Country Party in New South Wales: A Study of Organization and Survival.
	www.rdms.udel.edu /rdms/icpsr/SN7282.html (244 words)

	Prime Minister - Sir Earle Grafton Page
		The party was unaligned and held the balance of power in the House of Representatives.
		Both the Country Party and the Nationalist Party lost support, and a Labor government was elected.
		In the new Cabinet, the Country Party held 4 of the 14 portfolios.
	www.gavmag.com /austpm/pm_page.htm (2422 words)

	Janda, Political Parties: Chapter 1, p. 8
		The percentage is obtained by dividing the number of pages indexed for a party by the total number of pages in the file for that country.
		When summed across all the parties in a given country, the percentages may total to more than 100 because more than one party can be discussed on the same page.
		As discussed in the text, the literature on parties in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada was not organized into files and indexed in the systematic fashion as the literature for parties in the other countries.
	www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1980/Book/PART1/Ch.01_Introduction/Ch.01p08.htm (161 words)

	The Parliament of Australia: A Bibliography: Parties/Other
		Cribb, Margaret B. "The National Country Party." In The Pieces of Politics.
		Ellis, Ulrich R. The Country Party: A Political and Social History of the Party in New South Wales.
		McCraw, David J. "'Third Party Protest': A Note on the Australian and New Zealand Elections of 1990." Austalian Journal of Political Science 27 (November 1992): 517-521.
	www.indiana.edu /~librcsd/bib/australia_parliament/Parties/Other (631 words)

	Australian Greens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Australian Greens is one of the newest political parties in Australia.
		As the party approached the 2001 Federal election, its struggle with the Australian Democrats for minor party influence in the Senate was a focus of interest.
		The Liberal Party did not contest the by-election, opening the way for the Greens to win the seat with 52.23% of the two-party-preferred vote, after polling 23.03% of the primary vote.
	www.australianpolitics.com /closed/parties-greens.shtml (264 words)

	Australian Politics and Political Leaders quiz -- free game
		Of which party was Sir Robert Menzies a member, when he became Prime Minister in April, 1941?
		Which MP was a shock choice for the Veterans' Affairs portfolio in the wake of the 2001 election?
		Who was the youngest person ever elected to the Australian Federal Parliament?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=79729&origin= (161 words)

	Sir Arthur William Fadden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		His origins seem more like that of the archetypal Labor representative than of a Country Party man. The son of a poor Irish immigrant, he was born at Ingham, north Queensland, in 1895, as the eldest of a family of 10 - of whom three were to die in separate accidents.
		North Queensland is cane country and he grew up in a self-sufficient community revolving around sugar mills and the cane harvest.
		Fadden, elected leader of the Country Party in March 1941, was Deputy Prime Minister when coalition in-fighting forced Menzies to throw in the sponge in August.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/5557/fadden.html (1433 words)

	Australian Country Music Invades Nashville! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Listening to Australian country, in the comfort of my home, is exciting...experiencing it LIVE is pure magic!
		Mark O'Shea, at 19, is the youngest of the Australian performers this evo but is no less capable of mesmorizing an audience, so he has demonstrated with "My World Weary Heart" which is from his ABC album "None of the Above".
		The Ranch began the mini concert with "Walkin' the Country", the single that has done exceptionally well on the Australian country music chart.
	members.screenz.com /JackieTajiri/giants_rev.htm (1107 words)

	Australian Politics
		The author was Doc Evatt's secretary for twenty years and takes a different approach to his subject, regarding h im as a complex and misunderstood democrat, and drawing a fresh picture of his part in the Labor split.
		Australian Story of South Australian who became Commonwealth Senator and Attorney General.
		The Rise of the Labour Party in Queensland 1885-1915.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /austpol.htm (1477 words)

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