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	National Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The 1980s were dominated by the feud between Bjelke-Petersen and the federal party leadership, which led to defeat at the 1987 federal election and the fall of the Nationals in Queensland in 1989.
		At the 1922 election the Country Party was established as a national party led by Dr Earle Page of Grafton, NSW.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Party_of_Australia (816 words)

	Australian Conservative Politics: news, information and links
		The NationalParty of Australia (formley known as the Country Party) is the Australian Conservative Party of the bush.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4975/nats.htm (18 words)

	Nationals' survival depends on new agenda - 15 June 2002
		An astute observer of the political scene, Minchin has watched the gradual decline of the Nationals and the emergence of the Liberal Party as the dominant regional party in Australia, and he believes that on demographics alone the National Party is doomed.
		At the 2001 election, Tim Fischer's old seat of Farrer went to the Liberals, despite the Labor Party's best endeavours behind-the-scenes to help the Nationals retain the seat.
		Senator Boswell is right: there is a place for a rural-based party in Australia, despite the falling ratio between city and country populations and the unfortunate preference of Australians to hug the coastline.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002jun15_nat.html (1035 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Australian legislative election, 2004
		The conservative Coalition of the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister John Howard, and the National Party of Australia led by Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, won a fourth three-year term, with a net gain of four seats in the 150-member House of Representatives.
		The National and Liberal Parties won the fifth and sixth seats respectively in Queensland, thus giving the Coalition 39 seats and outright control of the Senate.
		The position she will lead her party in on certain key issues is unclear, though she has hinted that she is in favour of an apology for the stolen generation and would like to see an end to the incarceration of the children of refugees.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Australian_legislative_election,_2004 (3088 words)

	Parliament@Work - PARTIES
		This party changed its name in 1975 to the National Country Party and again in 1982 to the National Party of Australia to appeal to a wider constituency.
		In the Northern Territory, the Nationals have a close association with the Country Liberal Party which has held government in that territory and has a Senator in the Commonwealth Parliament.
		This means that the party or the coalition of parties with the largest number of elected members in parliament usually forms the government of the day.
	www.parliament.curriculum.edu.au /parties_national.php3 (587 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of political parties in Australia
		Less significant parties include the Australian Greens, a left wing and environmentalist party; the Australian Democrats, a party of middle-class centrists; One Nation, a populist anti-immigration and protectionist party; and the Family First Party, a party appealing to socially conservative Christians.
		Australia has a mild two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties or coalitions, and it's difficult for independants or other parties to gain seats.
		Brown is the party's senior elected official and is treated by the media and public as its leader.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Australia (525 words)

	Australia
		The six colonies became states and in 1901 federated into the Commonwealth of Australia with a constitution that incorporated British parliamentary and U.S. federal traditions.
		In Nov. 1999, Australia's 11.6 million voters rejected a referendum that would have ended Australia's formal allegiance to the British Crown.
		Australia has been the victim of two significant terrorist attacks in recent years: the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, bombings by a group with ties to al-Qaeda in which 202 died, many of whom were Australian, and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in Indonesia, which killed ten.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107296.html (1239 words)

	Policies - The National Party of Australia
		Printed and Authorised by Gaye White, National Party of Australia, 7 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600
		Labor's 1993 election promise of building a National Museum of Australia was not only never delivered - it was repudiated after the election.
		The National Australia Day Council was established to foster national pride and to instil in all Australians, whatever their origins, a desire to contribute to the future of our nation.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/22031/20011109/www.nationalparty.org/policies/2001-10-26-arts.htm (7427 words)

	politics.htm
		The Coalition makes up of two right wing parties – Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia.
		The National Party Further right side of politics.
		Labour Party is on the left side of politics and it bases on socialism, claiming to stand for fairness, equality and labour rights.
	www.laopress.com /news/articles/aug2004/politics.htm (179 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia
		Since 1949, a coalition of the Liberal Party of Australia (a conservative party despite its name) and the right-wing, rural-oriented National Party of Australia (previously the National Country Party and originally the Country Party) has alternated in power with the left-of-center Australian Labor Party (ALP).
		The Commonwealth of Australia held a federal election on Saturday, October 9, 2004.
		Members of both houses of Australia's Parliament- the Senate and the House of Representatives- are chosen by preferential voting systems, which are described here.
	electionresources.org /au (525 words)

	The Nationals Queensland
		We are the political party that’s dedicated to fighting for families and small business and providing a more helpful, more efficient and less intrusive style of government that focuses on people rather than red tape.
		The Nationals are focused on providing a better quality of life for all Queenslanders.
		24-Jan-2006: The Nationals’ Queensland President Bruce Scott has expressed profound disappointment that Queensland has suffered because of the actions of...
	www.qld.nationals.org.au (135 words)

	Katrina Hodgkinson MP Member for Burrinjuck
		Because of the National Party, Australia is moving into the 21 st century with more government attention being focused on country and regional areas than at any time since Federation.
		It is an independent political party with a proud record of achievement for its constitutents across country and regional Australia.
		Without the National Party, government policy would be determined by a substantial majority of city-based parliamentarians.
	www.burrinjuck.com /np.htm (301 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Australia
		In the 2001 election, the National party lost three seats – and some of its clout in the governing coalition.
		The party has had difficulty hanging on to its support base in recent years, due to a growing gulf between its rural conservative elements and increasing rural support for green candidates and independents.
		The National party's support base and membership have traditionally been closely associated with the agricultural community.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/australia/election_partyleaders.html (1620 words)

	Bulletin - Strife of the party
		The party is seen increasingly as representing the interests of a minority constituency numbering as few as 100,000 farm businesses and about 200,000 people Australia-wide – the numerical equivalent of a single city electorate.
		Party achievements have included cuts to interest rates that were crippling the bush, lowering inflation to “historic levels” as well as “the end of currency manipulation that discriminated so badly against our exports”, waterfront reform and & very impressive record in fostering regional development”.
		White says the Nationals are committed to bridging the divide between the capital cities and rural and regional Australia.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /Bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/All/C75EF433FB392B38CA256AE5008370FC (1356 words)

	Politix Group Australia
		The national headquarters of the National Party of Australia is known as the Federal Secretariat.
		The National Party of Australia is the main nationalist party in Australia.
		The mailing address is: Federal Secretariat, National Party of Australia, PO Box E265, Kingston ACT 2604.
	www.politixgroup.com /ausnat.htm (109 words)

	The Nationals
		Address: 7 National Circuit John McEwen House BARTON ACT 2600
		As the Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile has said, Senator Julian McGauran’s betrayal has had a temporary impact on The Nationals.
		Federal President of The Nationals David Russell today expressed his disappointment that the desertion of Senator McGauran had resulted in a change to the Nationals’ representation in the outer ministry.
	www.nationals.org.au (223 words)

	Australia - Liberal-National Party Lost By-election - Worldpress.org
		Hanson’s lethal weapon in the state elections was to allocate One Nation preferences away from sitting coalition MPs, thus handing a number of marginal seats to the Labor opposition.
		The election was held in the suburbs of Brisbane, capital of the northern state of Queensland, which is home to One Nation Party founder Pauline Hanson.
		The losing candidate, Bob Tucker, a former Liberal state president, was responsible for withdrawing Hanson’s endorsement as a Liberal candidate in her home town of Ipswich before the 1996 federal election.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/1171.cfm (599 words)

	Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)
		In 1944, the Liberal Party of Australia was founded after a three-day meeting held in a small hall not far from Parliament House in Canberra.
		The Liberal Party was founded as a genuine mass-based party in the belief that having the largest possible number of members would allow the Party to be truly representative of the whole Australian community.
		The Labor Party is a highly centralist party and is committed to promoting the interests and the views of the organisations which brought it into existence in the first place.
	www.vic.liberal.org.au /AbouttheParty/History/our-history.htm (898 words)

	National Party of Australia
		It was formed in 1916 as the Country Party of Australia and adopted its present name in 1982.
		Australian political party, favouring free enterprise and seeking to promote the interests of people outside the major metropolitan areas.
		In 1996 it entered into a coalition with the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister John Howard.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0010963.html (167 words)

	DD Units - Mid. Sec. - Parties Control Parliament
		In Australia, the growth of a strong Labor Party representing workers and trade unions was matched by the development of opposing parties such as the National Party and the Liberal Party.
		As a small party, the Democrats have not won seats in the House of Representatives (as at September 1998), but the voting system for the Senate can sometimes give them five or six seats (and the balance of power) in the Senate.
		In Australia some individual governments assumed ownership of industries or started their own, but Australian industry is generally privately owned and now many industries previously owned by government have been sold.
	www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/ddunits/units/ms1fq2acts.htm (4010 words)

	The National Party of Australia - New South Wales
		Australia’s nomination of a high calibre candidate is also an indication of the Government’s commitment to the OECD as a source of impetus for continuing reform in the international economy.
		The National Party of Australia - New South Wales
		The OECD acknowledged these achievements in its recent Economic Survey on Australia, where Australia was recognised as a model for other OECD countries, including in relation to structural reform and Australia’s “deep-seated competition culture”.
	nsw.nationals.org.au /html/australian_candidate_for_top_oecd_post.cfm (306 words)

	Policy not structure the problem for National Party - 26 January 2002
		Over the decades, all major parties have had very forgettable MPs who were carried to victory, time and again, on the coat tails of their party and popular leaders.
		Mr Anderson’s party structures are no substitute for party substance, while age and the "good-looks" of candidates are no substitute for the party policy platform.
		After every federal election, there is the inevitable party political post mortems, in which the winners (who are grinners) evaluate why they are so ‘popular’ with the electorate, and the losers, why they are "on the nose".
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002jan26_nats.html (892 words)

	New National Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		South African political party established in 1989 by the merger of the Progressive Federal Party with two smaller liberal parties, the National Democratic Movement and the Independent Party.
		The National Party was long dedicated to policies of apartheid and white supremacy, but by the early 1990s it had begun moving toward sharing power with South Africa's black majority.
		Afrikaans Nuwe Nasionale Party, formerly (1914–39, 1951–98) National Party of South Africa, and (1939–51) Re-united National Party or People's Party South African political party, founded in 1914, which ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055001 (742 words)

	The National Party of Australia - New South Wales
		The National Party of Australia - New South Wales
		Now it's possible that Australia is a sort of twilight zone, where the laws of physics and chemistry are strangely different to everywhere else.
		Mr Anderson was responding to a question in the House of Representatives today.
	www.nsw.nationals.org.au /html/anderson_slams_labors_ethanol_scare_campaign.cfm (362 words)

	Copyright
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	www.users.bigpond.com /stevenstreidl/copyright.htm (162 words)

	National Australia Bank - National Agricultural Trade Forum - 24 May 2004
		A member of the National Party of Australia since 1978, Mark became Chairman of the Wingham Branch of the Nationals in 1982.
		In 1984 he became Secretary of the National Party's Lyne Electorate Council.
		Immediately before joining the National, Alan was the Senior Adviser in Treasury responsible for economic forecasting and modelling. In 1987 he was seconded for nearly four years as Counsellor-Economic and Financial with Australia's delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
	www.national.com.au /Agribusiness/0,,54474,00.html (1419 words)

	At Stake
		Any personal information provided to The National Party of Australia by site users will be treated with the utmost care, and will not knowingly be used in ways unless explicitly consented to by the user who supplied the information and to whom the information refers.
		All personal information collected by The National Party of Australia on the At Stake website is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth of Australia).
		Authorised by Andrew Hall, The Nationals, 7 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600.
	www.atstake.org.au /html/atstake_privacy.cfm (236 words)

	AboutNats.htm
		The Party is associated with the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party, whose Senator sits with the National Party in Federal Parliament.
		The National Parties of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are all affiliated with the Federal National Party of Australia.
		The Federal Party changed from the National Country Party to the National Party of Australia at a Federal Conference meeting in Canberra on October 16,1982.
	www.users.bigpond.com /stevenstreidl/AboutNats.htm (1354 words)

	The World Today Archive - National Party's warning to Tesltra
		COMPERE: And the President of the National Party of Australia, Helen Dickie, with Alexandra Kirk.
		The National Party is actually warning that Telstra has the potential to become the biggest issue at the next federal election for country Australia.
		The National Party President, Helen Dickie, is urging the Federal Government to take extremely cautious views on Telstra, counselling it to go slow over job cuts and holding back on further privatisation.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s108962.htm (738 words)

	National Australia Bank
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