query: what the australian liberal party stands for?

title: Western Australian Liberal Party (1911–17)

text: and retaining power in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The Party did not involve itself in Federal politics, although many of its members were also associated with the Commonwealth Liberal Party and assisted Liberal candidates and members from Western Australia in that capacity. The massive defeat of the Ministerial faction by Labor in that election resulted in what remained of the faction formally joining the Liberal Party, which became the first organised non-Labor movement in the State and was a precursor to the Nationalist Party and, later, the modern Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division). The party was led

title: Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)

text: state Country Party although one individual MLA did defect from the Country Party to the Liberals. In 1968 the party changed its name to the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division). Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division) The Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division) is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Formed in 1945, the party has held power for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country party). The party has been in opposition in the state since the 2017 election. The party initially adopted the name

text: Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division) The Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division) is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Formed in 1945, the party has held power for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country party). The party has been in opposition in the state since the 2017 election. The party initially adopted the name Liberal Party. In 1949 the party changed the name to Liberal and Country League; unlike the party of the same name in South Australia this did not involve a merger with the

title: Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division)

text: Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division) The Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), commonly known as the South Australian Liberals, is the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, formed in 1974, succeeding the Liberal and Country League (LCL). It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party has been led by Premier of South Australia Steven Marshall since the 2018 state election; their first win in twenty years. The party has won only 4 of the 13 state elections

text: for its entire duration in Parliament by Frank Wilson, who served as Opposition Leader until 27 July 1916, and Premier thereafter. By June 1917, the party had been disbanded and fully subsumed into the Nationalist Party. Western Australian Liberal Party (1911–17) The Western Australian Liberal Party was a political party which existed from 1911 until 1917 in the Australian state of Western Australia. The Party, which had its roots in various earlier political movements, came together in the period immediately prior to the 1911 state election under the guidance of Sir John Forrest, the Federal member for Swan and former

text: Western Australian Liberal Party (1911–17) The Western Australian Liberal Party was a political party which existed from 1911 until 1917 in the Australian state of Western Australia. The Party, which had its roots in various earlier political movements, came together in the period immediately prior to the 1911 state election under the guidance of Sir John Forrest, the Federal member for Swan and former Premier of Western Australia, and other leading political figures in the State. It was assembled in response to the solid organisation of the Labor Party and had the aim of assisting Ministerial members in winning seats

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia) The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP or Liberal Democrats) is an Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government, and supports policies that are based on classical liberal and right-libertarian principles. The LDP is a registered party in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia, and is also registered for federal elections with the Australian Electoral Commission. The party has one senator, David Leyonhjelm, elected to parliament at the 2013 federal election. It also has a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, Aaron Stonehouse, and

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: Party. However, in 2008 the party successfully applied to the Australian Electoral Commission to change its federally registered name to Liberal Democratic Party. During this period, the party remained registered under its original name in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). In 2016 the Liberal Party again sought to challenge the name but ultimately abandoned the action. Liberal Democratic Party (Australia) The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP or Liberal Democrats) is an Australian political party founded in Canberra in 2001. The party espouses smaller government, and supports policies that are based on classical liberal and right-libertarian principles. The LDP is a registered

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia 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 (ALP). It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party (UAP). The Liberal Party is the largest and dominant party in the Coalition with the National Party of Australia. In two states and territories of Australia the parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory and the Liberal National Party of Queensland. Except for a few short periods, the

title: Liberal Party (1922)

text: Liberal Party (1922) The Liberal Party, also known as the Liberal Union or the Liberal Union Party, was a short-lived political party in Australia (mainly Victoria and South Australia) that operated mainly in 1922. The party was formed by disaffected Nationalists, principally Thomas Ashworth and Charles Merrett, who opposed the leadership of Prime Minister Billy Hughes. Two federal Nationalist MPs, Victorian William Watt and South Australian Richard Foster, joined the Liberal Party and three more MPs (John Latham from Victoria, and Malcolm Cameron and Jack Duncan-Hughes from South Australia) were elected in the 1922 federal election. South Australian Nationalist Senators

text: since their formation: 1979, 1993, 1997 and 2018. The 1970 election marked the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value), which ended decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander. The "Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division)" was formed in 1974 as a reorganisation and rebranding of the Liberal and Country League (LCL). Bruce Eastick, the last leader of the LCL, became the first leader of the new party. The LCL was preceded by the Liberal Federation (1923–1932) and the Liberal Union (1910–1923) with the latter created from a tri-merger between the Liberal and Democratic Union

title: Australian Liberal Students' Federation

text: has been an ALSF alumni member in each Liberal Government Federal Cabinet while the four most recent Liberal Prime Ministers as well as a number of Federal and State Members of Parliament have been alumni of the organisation. Australian Liberal Students' Federation The Australian Liberal Students' Federation (ALSF) is an Australian students' political organisation. Founded in 1948, the ALSF carries similar ideology to the Liberal Party of Australia. The Federation works closely with the Liberal Party, however it is an independent organisation that pursues its own policy agenda. The Federation works to promote Liberal beliefs on campus, facilitates communication amongst

text: both ideologies and personalities, with sides forming between the moderate Chapman and conservative Evans family dynasties, complicated further by the moderate Brown and conservative Olsen rifts. Five of the ten parliamentary Liberal leaders have served as Premier of South Australia: David Tonkin (1979–1982), Dean Brown (1993–1996), John Olsen (1996–2001), Rob Kerin (2001–2002), and Steven Marshall (2018–present). Six parliamentary Liberal deputy leaders have served as Deputy Premier of South Australia: Roger Goldsworthy (1979–1982), Stephen Baker (1993–1996), Graham Ingerson (1996–1998), Rob Kerin (1998–2001), Dean Brown (2001–2002), and Vickie Chapman (2018–present). Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division) The Liberal Party of Australia

title: Australian Liberal Students' Federation

text: Australian Liberal Students' Federation The Australian Liberal Students' Federation (ALSF) is an Australian students' political organisation. Founded in 1948, the ALSF carries similar ideology to the Liberal Party of Australia. The Federation works closely with the Liberal Party, however it is an independent organisation that pursues its own policy agenda. The Federation works to promote Liberal beliefs on campus, facilitates communication amongst individual clubs and assists in co-ordinating national Liberal Student campaigns.The ALSF is organised as a Federation with events, policy and elections taking place at a club level, as well as a federal executive and delegate system to elect

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: Industries ($196,000), National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association ($177,000) and Westfield Corporation ($150,000). The Liberal Party also receives undisclosed funding through several methods, such as "associated entities". Cormack Foundation, Eight by Five, Free Enterprise Foundation, Federal Forum and Northern Sydney Conservative forum are entities which have been used to funnel donations to the Liberal Party without disclosing the source. Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia 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 (ALP). It was founded in 1944 as

text: and the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) electoral systems in South Australia. Since then, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. The divisions in the once-dominant party culminated when much of its socially progressive, or "small-l liberal" wing broke away to form the Liberal Movement under the leadership of former LCL leader and Premier Steele Hall in 1972. The reorganisation and rebranding of the LCL came two years later, while the New Liberal Movement merged with the Australia Party in 1977 to become the Australian Democrats. To this day, ongoing division has continued based on

title: Country Liberal Party

text: Federal Parliament of Australia and primarily concerns itself with representing Territory interests. It is a regionally based party, that has parliamentary representation in both the Federal Parliament and at the Territory level. The CLP competes against the Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch) (the local branch of Australia's social-democratic party). It is closely affiliated with, but is independent from the Liberal Party of Australia (a mainly urban, pro-private enterprise party comprising mainly liberal membership) and the National Party of Australia (a conservative-liberal agrarian and regional interests party). The party promotes traditional Liberal Party values such as individualism and private enterprise,

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: Liberal-National Coalition led by Barry O'Farrell won government with the largest election victory in post-war Australian history at the State Election. In Queensland, the Liberal and National parties merged in 2008 to form the new Liberal National Party of Queensland (registered as the Queensland Division of the Liberal Party of Australia). In March 2012, the new party achieved Government in an historic landslide, led by former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman. In March 2013, the Western Australian Liberal-National government won re-election while the party won government in Tasmania in 2014 and lost their fourth election in a row at the

title: National Liberal Party (Australia)

text: National Liberal Party (Australia) The National Liberal Party was a short-lived political party in the Australian state of Victoria. It was formed in 1974 by Senator George Hannan, as a breakaway from the Liberal Party. The party failed to win any seats at the 1974 federal election, and disbanded soon after. Hannan was a strident social conservative, and was disturbed by the nonchalance of his party to the new "permissive society". In August 1973, he lost Liberal preselection for the next federal election to Alan Missen, a noted civil libertarian and social liberal. However, he later said that his formation

title: Liberal–National party merger

text: Liberal–National party merger In the politics of Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia (formerly the Australian Country Party) have stood in federal elections as a coalition since the Liberal Party's founding in 1944. A full merger of the parties has been debated for decades, as a result of a shrinking National Party vote. It is argued that the decline in the National vote is linked to a declining rural population, and National Party policies have become increasingly similar to those of the Liberal Party. Additionally, in the states and territories of Australia, the parties' affiliates

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: office in three states: Will Hodgman, Premier of Tasmania since 2014, Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of New South Wales since 2017 and Steven Marshall, Premier of South Australia since 2018. The party is in opposition in the states of Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and in both the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. The party's ideology has been referred to as conservative, liberal-conservative, conservative-liberal, and classical liberal. The Liberal Party tends to promote economic liberalism (which in the Australian usage refers to free markets and small government). Two past leaders of the party, Sir Robert Menzies and John Howard,

title: Liberal–National party merger

text: the Hinkler in Queensland, was classified by the Australian Electoral Commission as provincial (predominantly rural), compared to four held by the Liberals and 16 by Labor. The election was indicative of declining support for the Nationals. The party's parliamentary representation fell in each of the four Australian elections between 1998 and 2007, and the party's vote in this period never exceeded six percent (compared to an average voting result of 8-11 percent for the Nationals over the previous two decades). Liberal–National party merger In the politics of Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia (formerly the

title: Liberal Democratic Party (New South Wales)

text: before it became the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party the next year. White remained a disruptive element within the Liberal Party of Australia and contested the seat of Warringah against the party's endorsed candidate at the 1954 federal election. In his old age, White would claim that he, rather than Menzies, had been the founder of the Liberal Party. Liberal Democratic Party (New South Wales) The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was an Australian political party that contested the 1943 federal election and the 1944 New South Wales state election. In 1931 Joseph Lyons resigned from the Australian

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: are Australia's two longest-serving Prime Ministers. The Liberal Party has spent more time in government than any other federal political party in Australian history. The Liberals' immediate predecessor was the United Australia Party (UAP). More broadly, the Liberal Party's ideological ancestry stretched back to the anti-Labor groupings in the first Commonwealth parliaments. The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a fusion of the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party in 1909 by the second prime minister, Alfred Deakin, in response to Labor's growing electoral prominence. The Commonwealth Liberal Party merged with several Labor dissidents (including Billy Hughes) to form the Nationalist

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: South Wales branch of the Labor Party. Latham also announced that he was open to running as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats. Founded as the Liberal Democratic Party in 2001, changes to the Electoral Act by the Howard government forced all parties without parliamentary representation to deregister, and re-register under stricter naming rules. Advised by the Australian Electoral Commission that federal registration under the original name was uncertain given opposition by the Liberal Party of Australia, and lacking the funding to appeal a likely negative finding, in 2007 the party chose to register federally as the Liberty and Democracy

title: Liberal Reform Party (Australia)

text: Liberal Reform Party (Australia) The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. It drew much of its support from Protestant and Temperance groups. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal issue at the time of federation. Deprived of their main ideological difference, the two parties were recreated as the Liberal Reform Party aligned with the federal Free Trade Party and the Progressive Party aligned with the federal Protectionist

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: state of New South Wales after the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party. According to Leyonhjelm, a portion of their vote probably came from their 'first position' on the long senate ballot paper and voters potentially being confused with his party and other contesting parties such as the Liberals, the Australian Democrats and the Christian Democratic Party. However, Leyonhjelm points to the fact that the Liberal Democrats' vote in South Australia, where they were fifth on the ballot, rose 3 percentage points. He also points to the fact that the donkey vote generally only produces swings of

title: Liberal Reform Party (Australia)

text: Labor to form the New South Wales branch of the Nationalist Party of Australia. As was the case with the federal Nationalists, the new party was dominated by former Liberal Reformers, but Holman was the merged party's leader. Liberal Reform Party (Australia) The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics between 1901 and 1916. It drew much of its support from Protestant and Temperance groups. The question of tariff policy which, had created and divided the Free Trade Party and Protectionist Party in New South Wales in the 1890s, became a federal

title: National Liberal Party (Australia)

text: in New South Wales. It polled just under 24,000 votes, which amounted to 1.3 percent of the state total. The other two candidates on its ticket besides Hannan were Reginald Hollow and Luke Cuni. On 3 March 1975, Hannan announced that he was disbanding the party and returning to the Liberals. National Liberal Party (Australia) The National Liberal Party was a short-lived political party in the Australian state of Victoria. It was formed in 1974 by Senator George Hannan, as a breakaway from the Liberal Party. The party failed to win any seats at the 1974 federal election, and disbanded

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: Tonkin, as leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, became Premier at the 1979 election for one term, losing office at the 1982 election. The Liberals returned to power at the 1993 election, led by Premiers Dean Brown, John Olsen and Rob Kerin through two terms, until their defeat at the 2002 election. They remained in opposition for 16 years, under a record five Opposition Leaders, until Steven Marshall led the party to victory in 2018. The dual aligned Country Liberal Party ruled the Northern Territory from 1978 to 2001. The party has held office

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: rank-and-file members, although Liberal party members do have a degree of influence over party policy. The Liberal Party's basic organisational unit is the "branch", which consists of party members in a particular locality. For each electorate there is a "conference"—notionally above the branches—which coordinates campaigning in the electorate and regularly communicates with the member (or candidate) for the electorate. As there are three levels of government in Australia, each branch elects delegates to a local, state, and federal conference. All the branches in an Australian state are grouped into a "Division". The ruling body for the Division is a "State

text: Liberal Democratic Party (New South Wales) The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was an Australian political party that contested the 1943 federal election and the 1944 New South Wales state election. In 1931 Joseph Lyons resigned from the Australian Labor Party and together with the opposition Nationalist Party, five dissident Labor MPs and three conservative independent MPs formed the United Australia Party (UAP). This unified the mainstream urban conservative forces in Australia but, in substance, it was largely a continuation of the Nationalists under a new name. The UAP, in coalition with the Country Party was in power federally and in

title: Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)

text: Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch) The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division). Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning

title: Australian Labor Party

text: Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP; known as Labor, historically spelt Labour) is a major centre-left political party in Australia. The party has been in opposition at the federal level since the 2013 election. Bill Shorten has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since 13 October 2013. The party is a federal party with branches in each state and territory. Labor is in government in the states of Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and in both the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state (and

title: Australian Liberal Students' Federation

text: an official observer to the parties annual Federal Council. Many of the individual Federations' affiliated Liberal Clubs pre-date the existence of the Liberal Party itself including the University of Melbourne Liberal Club founded in 1925, the Sydney University Liberal Club in 1933, the University of Western Australia Liberal Club in 1944, and the University of Tasmania Liberal Club in 1945. The Federation hosts an annual Federal Council during the July Universities Australia common vacation week. The council historically is hosted by an affiliated Club in a different Australian capital city each year. Clubs are required to submit affiliations to the

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: effort to increase deregulation of industrial laws in Australia. In 2005, Howard reflected on his government's cultural and foreign policy outlook in oft repeated terms: The 2007 federal election saw the defeat of the Howard federal government, and the Liberal Party was in opposition throughout Australia at the state and federal level; the highest Liberal office-holder at the time was Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman. This ended after the Western Australian state election, 2008, when Colin Barnett became Premier of that state. Following the 2007 federal election, Dr Brendan Nelson was elected leader by the Parliamentary Liberal Party. On

title: Commonwealth Liberal Party

text: until the 1922 election where the new Country Party of Australia (later The Nationals) stripped the Nationalists of their majority, and demanded his resignation in exchange for confidence and supply. Stanley Bruce subsequently became Prime Minister. The Commonwealth Liberal Party is often referred to by the retronym "Deakinite Liberal Party" in order to distinguish it from the later Liberal Party of Australia, which was officially founded in 1945. Commonwealth Liberal Party The Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP, also known as the Deakin–Cook Party, The Fusion, or the Deakinite Liberal Party) was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1917,

title: 1990 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election

text: 1990 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 3 April 1990, following the defeat of the Liberal Party at the federal election five days earlier. The spill was won by John Hewson over Peter Reith by 62 votes to 13. Reith was then elected deputy leader of the Party. An election for the deputy leadership of the party was held, as under Liberal Party rules, all leadership positions are declared vacant after a general election, no matter what the outcome. The following table gives the ballot results:

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: +1 or 2 percentage points to the party listed first on the ballot. Leyonhjelm organised preferences for several different, but closely entwined, political parties seeking election to the Senate, including the Outdoor Recreation Party, Smokers' Rights Party, and the Republican Party of Australia. Australian Sex Party candidate Fiona Patten alleged Leyonhjelm intentionally failed to lodge ticket voting preferences forms, reneging on a preference deal, but Leyonhjelm claimed that there was a mistake entering the AEC fax number. The Liberal Democrats were not involved in Glenn Druery's "Minor Party Alliance" during the election, which assisted in negotiating preference flows between minor

title: History of the Australian Labor Party

text: the newly formed Liberal Party of Australia and the Country Party. Chifley oversaw Australia's initial transition to a peacetime economy. Early in this term Chifley was successful in obtaining voter approval for the 1946 Social Services referendum. Chifley's initiatives included the expansion of health care in Australia with a Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and free hospital ward treatment, the introduction of Australian citizenship (1948), a post-war immigration scheme, the founding of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the reorganisation and enlargement of the Australian scientific organisation CSIR to the CSIRO, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, improvements in social services, the establishment

title: Liberal Reform Group

text: Liberal Reform Group The Liberal Reform Group, later known as the Australian Reform Movement, was a minor Australian political party and predecessor to the Australia Party, which in turn was a predecessor to the Australian Democrats. It was founded by Gordon Barton, transport entrepreneur Ken Thomas, shark meshing contractor Nickolai Gorshenin, writer Kenneth Cook and a number of disaffected members of the Liberal Party, alienated by the Liberals' support for conscription in the Vietnam War. After contesting the 1966 federal election as the Liberal Reform Group, the party contested the 1967 Senate election as the Australian Reform Movement, but had

title: Country Liberal Party

text: Country Liberal Party The Country Liberal Party (CLP), officially the Country Liberals (Northern Territory), is a liberal conservative political party in Australia founded in 1974, which operates solely in the Northern Territory. The CLP first fielded candidates at the 1975 federal election, winning one seat in the Senate and the non-voting seat in the House of Representatives. Since 1979, the CLP has been formally affiliated with both the federal Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia (previously the Country Party and National Country Party). The Liberal Party, National Party, Liberal National Party of Queensland, and CLP form

title: 2008 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill

text: 2008 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill A spill of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 15 September 2008. At a ballot on 16 September, Shadow Treasurer Malcolm Turnbull defeated the incumbent leader Brendan Nelson 45 votes to 41. The Liberal-National coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard was defeated at the 2007 federal election by the Australian Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd. In the aftermath, Brendan Nelson was elected leader in an ensuing ballot, in a 45-42 vote against former Minister for the Environment, Malcolm Turnbull. Nelson's leadership came under intense pressure throughout

title: Australian Liberal Party (Victoria)

text: Australian Liberal Party (Victoria) The Australian Liberal Party, also known as Progressive Liberals, was a minor political party that operated in the state of Victoria in the late 1920s. The party was founded early in 1927 in preparation for the state election to be held later that year. It believed that the Nationalist Party had abandoned liberal principles. An urban-based party, it opposed the rural malapportionment that existed in the Victorian Legislative Assembly at the time. At the election, the party succeeded in electing two of its candidates, Frederick Forrest in Caulfield and Burnett Gray in St Kilda. They were

title: Australian Liberal Party (Victoria)

text: both re-elected in 1929 after withstanding strong challenges from the Nationalists. Forrest died in 1930 and Gray lost his seat in 1932, and the party subsequently faded away. Australian Liberal Party (Victoria) The Australian Liberal Party, also known as Progressive Liberals, was a minor political party that operated in the state of Victoria in the late 1920s. The party was founded early in 1927 in preparation for the state election to be held later that year. It believed that the Nationalist Party had abandoned liberal principles. An urban-based party, it opposed the rural malapportionment that existed in the Victorian Legislative

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested. The political terms of "modern", "progressive" or "new" Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice. By the early 20th century,

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: is represented by the Liberal National Party of Queensland. This party is the result of a merger of the Queensland Division of the Liberal Party and the Queensland National Party to contest elections as a single party. Graphic shows seats that would be held by Liberal Party if the two conservative parties are to split. For the 2015–2016 financial year, the top ten disclosed donors to the Liberal Party were: Paul Marks (Nimrod resources) ($1,300,000), Pratt Holdings ($790,000), Hong Kong Kingson Investment Company ($710,000), Aus Gold Mining Group ($410,000), Village Roadshow ($325,000), Waratah Group ($300,000), Walker Corporation ($225,000), Australian Gypsum

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: in 1971; and Malcolm Fraser's Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976. A West Australian Liberal, Ken Wyatt, became the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives in 2010. The Liberal Party is a member of the International Democrat Union. The Liberal Party and its predecessor parties have been the first to directly elect female representatives to the federal and every state and territory parliament nationwide. The first female member of the Australian House of Representatives and member of cabinet, Dame Enid Lyons, was elected in 1943 as a Liberal representing the division of Darwin in Tasmania. The first female

title: Western Australian Party

text: Hedges in Fremantle. In practice they sat as independents and joined the Commonwealth Liberal Party when it formed. Western Australian Party The Western Australian Party (WAP) was a short-lived Australian political party that operated in 1906. It was intended as a liberal party to protect the rights of Western Australians and to oppose the increasingly successful Labour Party, and drew its supporters from the Protectionist Party and the Anti-Socialist Party. John Forrest, a minister in Alfred Deakin's government, accepted the leadership of the party. Candidates were endorsed for all electorates in the 1906 federal election, including Forrest, but by the

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: new party organisation under the old name of "the Liberal Party". Meadowcroft joined the Liberal Democrats in 2007. During the 19th century, the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism, supporting "laissez-faire" economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy (this doctrine was usually termed Gladstonian liberalism after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). The Liberal Party favoured social reform, personal liberty, reducing the powers of the Crown and the Church of England (many of them were nonconformists) and an extension of the electoral franchise.

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: It took the name "Liberal" in honour of the old Commonwealth Liberal Party. The new party was dominated by the remains of the old UAP; with few exceptions, the UAP party room became the Liberal party room. The Australian Women's National League, a powerful conservative women's organisation, also merged with the new party. A conservative youth group Menzies had set up, the Young Nationalists, was also merged into the new party. It became the nucleus of the Liberal Party's youth division, the Young Liberals. By September 1945 there were more than 90,000 members, many of whom had not previously been

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872: If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party. (Cheers.) But liberty does not consist in making others do what you think right, (Hear, hear.) The difference between a free Government and a Government which is not free is principally this—that a Government which is not free interferes with everything it can, and a free Government interferes with nothing except what it

title: Liberal Party (Philippines)

text: de Lima, have received the prestigious Prize for Freedom, the highest international award for liberal and democratic politicians since 1985. The Liberal Party was founded on January 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas, the first President of the Third Philippine Republic. It was formed by Roxas from what was once the "Liberal Wing" of the old Nacionalista Party. Two more Presidents of the Philippines elected into office came from the LP: Elpidio Quirino and the redoubtable Diosdado Macapagal. Two other presidents came from the ranks of the LP, as former members of the party who later chose to follow a different

title: Liberal Party (UK, 1989)

text: MPs and cabinet ministers, but which also gained defections from Conservatives. A small minority of the Liberal Party, notably including the former Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Meadowcroft (the last elected president of the Liberal Party), unhappy with what they saw as authoritarian and economic interventionist policies that veered away from traditional Liberal policies, resolved to continue with the Liberal Party. They continued using the old party name and symbols, including the party anthem, "The Land". The continuing Liberal Party included several councillors and entire council groups from the pre-1988 party which had never submitted to the merged party and

title: Liberal Party (Queensland, 1908)

text: keep the party together in the state with only limited losses and instead the emphasis remained on the opposition groups with the Liberals and Country Party coming together in July 1917 as the National Party. Tolmie became the leader of the new party. Liberal Party (Queensland, 1908) The Liberal Party was a political party in the Australian state of Queensland in the early 20th century. It combined the main non-Labor forces, the "Kidstonites" of William Kidston and the Conservatives of Robert Philp, similar to the federal Commonwealth Liberal Party whose fusion it preceded. The Liberals held government from their formation

title: Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party

text: congratulated on becoming leader of the federal Conservative party to run for Prime Minister of Canada. The Liberal party was also heavily attacked during the convention, with two different motions condemning them for corrupt electoral practice, and following the federal Liberal Party of Canada policy on the question of provincial powers, and labor laws for the Territories. Premier Haultain was shocked by the Convention and openly opposed the move towards defining the political lines in the legislature. The organizers of the convention planned the election of officers without Haultain's knowledge. The great Moose Jaw convention stands to this day as

title: Liberal Party of Montenegro

text: Liberal Party of Montenegro Liberal Party of Montenegro (, "Liberalna partija Crne Gore, LPCG") is a liberal political party in Montenegro, member of ALDE and observer at the Liberal International. The party advocated liberalism and the bringing down of Milo Đukanović's rule, seeing it as authoritarian and undemocratic. It had continued the fight against what it saw as the DPS' authoritarianism that the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro pursued since its foundation in 1990. However, the party changed its discourse and became a junior coalition partner of DPS both on local and national level. Currently, LP president Andrija Popović is the

title: Liberal Party (Queensland, 1908)

text: Liberal Party (Queensland, 1908) The Liberal Party was a political party in the Australian state of Queensland in the early 20th century. It combined the main non-Labor forces, the "Kidstonites" of William Kidston and the Conservatives of Robert Philp, similar to the federal Commonwealth Liberal Party whose fusion it preceded. The Liberals held government from their formation in 1908 until defeat in 1915 after which they combined with other elements in the state to form the National Party. The Liberals were formed after a period of flux in Queensland state politics in which multiple parties and factions had operated with

title: Country Liberal Party

text: and what it describes as "progressive" political policy such as full statehood for the Northern Territory. Branch delegates and members of the party's Central Council attend the Annual Conference of the Country Liberal Party to decide the party's platform. The Central Council is composed of the party's office bearers, its leaders from the Territory Assembly and the Federal Parliament and representatives of party branches. The Annual Conference of the Country Liberal Party, attended by branch delegates and members of the party's Central Council, decides matters relating to the party's platform and philosophy. The Central Council administers the party and makes

title: Liberal Party of Montenegro

text: the minority group is also an integral part of the ruling majority. At the 2016 parliamentary election, LP did not run, but instead was given two candidate spots on the electoral list of Democratic Party of Socialists, one of which was elected to the Parliament. Liberal Party of Montenegro Liberal Party of Montenegro (, "Liberalna partija Crne Gore, LPCG") is a liberal political party in Montenegro, member of ALDE and observer at the Liberal International. The party advocated liberalism and the bringing down of Milo Đukanović's rule, seeing it as authoritarian and undemocratic. It had continued the fight against what

title: The North Stands for Nothing

text: like to keep their music simple and have "more a party vibe." Vocalist Taylor added that their sound is "less pure solo and just more energy." Dom Wyatt of "Dead Press!" suggested that the band stick to the mould of a metalcore band with the adage "don’t fix what isn’t broken." In an interview in 2011, vocalist Taylor stated that the title – "The North Stands for Nothing" – has two meanings and that it is open to interpretation. Explaining that being from the North of England; the people that the band know "won't take crap" while also stating that

title: Western Australian Party

text: Western Australian Party The Western Australian Party (WAP) was a short-lived Australian political party that operated in 1906. It was intended as a liberal party to protect the rights of Western Australians and to oppose the increasingly successful Labour Party, and drew its supporters from the Protectionist Party and the Anti-Socialist Party. John Forrest, a minister in Alfred Deakin's government, accepted the leadership of the party. Candidates were endorsed for all electorates in the 1906 federal election, including Forrest, but by the time of the election enthusiasm for the venture had diffused. The party elected Forrest in Swan and William

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: rule in Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia and opposed Soviet expansionism. A significant program of economic reform, however, was not pursued. By 1983, the Australian economy was suffering with the early 1980s recession and amidst the effects of a severe drought. Fraser had promoted "states' rights" and his government refused to use Commonwealth powers to stop the construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in 1982. Liberal minister Don Chipp split off from the party to form a new social liberal party, the Australian Democrats in 1977. Fraser won further substantial majorities at the 1977 and 1980 elections, before losing

title: Australian Liberal Students' Federation

text: a national executive, platform and strategic direction. The ALSF is a member of the International Young Democrat Union. The Federation was formed on the 26th of August 1948 in Melbourne with delegates representing University Liberal clubs from each state, with the exception of Queensland, meeting in a three-day conference. Originally named the Australian Universities' Liberal Federation (AULF), the Federations' first council moved to encourage free enterprise as part of its policy platform and decided its first national campaign would target Socialism and Communism in Australian universities. The Federation is not formally affiliated with the Liberal Party, although is invited as

title: Australian Liberal Students' Federation

text: officers including the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Policy Director, the Communications Director, the Campaigns Director, and the Immediate Past President, who is supported by an Executive made up of State and Territory representatives. The Australian Liberal Students' Federation has had a long history of engagement and influence in national student bodies since its inception, and held numerous office bearer positions in the National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS) in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s, however, Liberal students became increasingly disillusioned with student representatives' support for what they saw as radical fringe elements mostly

title: Liberal Unionist Party

text: think the split from their former colleagues would be permanent. Gladstone preferred to call them "dissentient Liberals" as if he believed they would eventually come back like the "Adullamites", Liberals who had opposed the extension of the franchise in 1866 but had mostly come back to the main party after the Conservatives had passed their own electoral reform bill in 1867. In the end it did not matter what the Liberal Unionists were called, the schism in the Liberal party grew wider and deeper within a few years. The majority of Liberal Unionists, including Hartington, Lord Lansdowne, and George Goschen,

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: same-gender sexual relations. Billy Snedden led the party against Whitlam in the 1974 federal election, which saw a return of the Labor government. When Malcolm Fraser won the Liberal Party leadership from Snedden in 1975, Gorton walked out of the Party Room. Following the 1974–75 Loans Affair, the Malcolm Fraser led Liberal-Country Party Coalition argued that the Whitlam Government was incompetent and delayed passage of the Government's money bills in the Senate, until the government would promise a new election. Whitlam refused, yet Fraser insisted leading to the divisive 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. The deadlock came to an end when

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: the first Indigenous Australian in the Australian Parliament. Bonner was chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971 and celebrated his maiden parliamentary speech with a boomerang throwing display on the lawns of Parliament. Bonner went on to win election at the 1972 election and served as a Liberal Senator for 12 years. He worked on Indigenous and social welfare issues and proved an independent minded Senator, often crossing the floor on Parliamentary votes. Following Whitlam's victory, John Gorton played a further role in reform by introducing a Parliamentary motion from Opposition supporting the legalisation of

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: must. A despotic Government tries to make everybody do what it wishes; a Liberal Government tries, as far as the safety of society will permit, to allow everybody to do as he wishes. It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty. It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world. [...] It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do,

title: Liberal State Party

text: Liberal State Party The Liberal State Party, "the Freedom League" (, LSP), was a Dutch conservative liberal political party from 1921 to 1948. It is historically linked to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a major Dutch political party. The LSP was founded on 16 April 1921 as a merger of the mainstream liberal Liberal Union, the conservative liberal League of Free Liberals, the minor Economic League and the single seat parties of the Neutral Party and the Middle Class Party. They were joined by the General Political Party, who lacked parliamentary representation. These were all the liberal

title: History of the Australian Labor Party

text:
led by Michael Gunner defeated the one-term CLP government. At the 2017 Western Australian state election, Labor led by Mark McGowan defeated the incumbent Liberal-National Government. Labor was unsuccessful in the 2018 Tasmanian election. Labor is also in opposition in New South Wales, and in federal Parliament. The federal Australian Labor Party has split three times: The following is a list of federal Labor Party leaders: Key:

 "PM": Prime Minister
 "LO": Leader of the Opposition
 †: Died in office History of the Australian Labor Party The history of the Australian Labor Party

title: Liberal Democratic Party (Australia)

text: elected representatives in some local governments. It is "a hardline liberal party that demands abolition of government welfare as well as the minimum wage, seatbelts and bike helmets. It backs legalisation of marijuana and increased freedom to access pornography." The LDP states that it adheres to classical liberal, small government and "laissez-faire" principles coupled with what the party considers as a high regard for individual freedom and individual responsibility. The party's policies are influenced by those of the Libertarian Party in the United States of America. LDP supported policies include: Prior to the 2012 Ramsay and Port Adelaide state by-elections

title: Liberal Party (Belgium)

text: Liberal Party (Belgium) The Liberal Party (, ) was a Belgian political party that existed from 1846 until 1961, when it became the Party for Freedom and Progress, "Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès" or PVV-PLP, under the leadership of Omer Vanaudenhove. The Liberal Party was founded in 1846 and as such was the first political party of Belgium. Walthère Frère-Orban wrote the first charter for the new party. The Liberal Party had a clear victory in the 1848 elections, following lower tax requirements that benefited urban populations, where liberals were stronger. The Liberal Party

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: the Liberals stance began to shift towards "New Liberalism", what would today be called social liberalism, namely a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare. This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of H. H. Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state. David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled "We Can Conquer Unemployment!", although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status. The Liberals now (as expressed in the "Liberal

title: Country Liberal Party

text: the Coalition of Australian centre-right parties, with the CLP alone contesting seats for the Coalition in the Northern Territory. The CLP has full voting rights within the National Party, and observer status with the Liberal Party. Currently, the CLP has one representative in federal parliament, Senator Nigel Scullion, who also serves as the Senate leader of the National Party. The CLP dominated the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from its establishment in 1974 until the 2001 general election, when the CLP lost government winning only 10 of the 25 seats, and was reduced further to four parliamentary members at the 2005

title: Liberal Reformist Party

text: Liberal Reformist Party The Liberal Reformist Party (, PRL) was a liberal political party active in the Walloon Region and Brussels in Belgium. The PRL grew out of the Francophone part of the unitary liberal Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP) in 1971, and merged into the Reformist Movement (RM) in 2002. In 1971, the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP), inheritor to the historical Liberal Party of Belgium, split into a Flemish and a Francophone party, anticipating the political devolution bill of 1980. Initially keeping the French version of the old party name ("Parti de la liberté et du

title: Katter's Australian Party

text: interest in joining the party, however following the merger with the Queensland Party, Messenger declared he would not join the new party as it intended to run against sitting independents at the election. On 9 August 2011, Katter's Australian Party announced plans to merge with state Beaudesert MP Aidan McLindon's Queensland Party, with Katter's Australian Party as the surviving entity. As part of the deal, McLindon became the merged party's leader in Queensland. On 30 October 2011 McLindon was joined by Shane Knuth, the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) member for Dalrymple. Knuth, who was from the National half

title: Sudan Liberal Party

text: Sudan Liberal Party The Sudan Liberal Party (SLP) was a social liberal party in Sudan, founded in September 2003 by young Sudanese activists. In September 2008 it merged with three other liberal and democratic organisations to form the Liberal Party of Sudan . The Sudan Liberal Party was one of the most active forces in Sudan struggling against the fundamentalist dictatorship, defending human rights and women's rights, calling for justice and comprehensive peace in Southern, Eastern and Western Sudan (Darfur). SLP established the Human Rights Centre of the Sudan Liberal Party, monitoring human rights violations in Sudan. SLP was active

title: Colombian Liberal Party

text: 11.84% of the popular vote, placing him third, the worst ever result for a Liberal candidate. During the parliamentary elections of 14 March 2010, the Liberal Party obtained 17 senators and 37 representatives, placing third in both the Chamber of Representatives and Senate. At the 2010 presidential election Liberal candidate Rafael Pardo finished sixth with 4.38% of the vote. The Liberal Party went on to join the governing coalition of President Juan Manuel Santos. Colombian Liberal Party The Colombian Liberal Party (; PLC) is a centrist and social liberal political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal

title: Manitoba Liberal Party

text: Liberals official party status for the first time in 23 years. The vote followed the resignation of former NDP Premier Greg Selinger. Liberal Party leaders "Continuing Liberal" leaders Liberal-Progressive Party leaders Liberal Party leaders (renewal) (Note: Stan Roberts served as the party's acting leader from 1969 to 1970, after Robert Bend was defeated in the province's 1969 election. Although Lloyd Axworthy was the party's only MLA from 1977 to 1979, he was never party leader. Likewise Jon Gerrard remained the party's only MLA between 2013 and 2016 after relinquishing the party leadership in 2013.) Manitoba Liberal Party The Manitoba Liberal

title: Yukon Liberal Party

text: Party. Duncan won the Liberals' sole seat in the Yukon Party's landslide. The Liberal Party remained in opposition until the 2016 general election where the party went from third place in the legislature to majority government with its leader, Sandy Silver, becoming Premier. Yukon Liberal Party The Yukon Liberal Party () is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada. Sandy Silver, MLA for Klondike, is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and Premier of Yukon. After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier

title: Liberal State Party

text: Nederlandse Werkelieden Vereniging, the General Dutch Workers' Association), furthermore the neutral employers' organisation VNO and the financial newspaper "Het Handelsblad" had good relations with the League. Together with the other liberal party, the VDB, these organisation formed the weak general pillar. Liberal State Party The Liberal State Party, "the Freedom League" (, LSP), was a Dutch conservative liberal political party from 1921 to 1948. It is historically linked to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a major Dutch political party. The LSP was founded on 16 April 1921 as a merger of the mainstream liberal Liberal Union, the

title: Liberal Party (Chile, 1983)

text: Liberal Party ("Partido Liberal Gremialista") —both subsequently joined the National Party— and the Authentic Liberal Party ("Partido Liberal Auténtico"), which later evolve into the Liberal Democrat Party of Chile. In December 1987, the Liberal Party decided to merge with the Republican Party to make way for the Liberal-Republican Union. Liberal Party (Chile, 1983) The Liberal Party (, PL) or Liberal Movement (, ML) was a Chilean classical liberal political party that existed between 1983 and 1987, with an opposition stance to the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet. Its origins date back to late 1983, when a group of former

title: What Liberal Media?

text: What Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News is a book by columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias. Alterman argues that the media, as a whole, is not biased liberally, but conservatively. The "Los Angeles Times" called the book, "A well-documented, even-tempered and witty answer, I might say antidote, to such toxic recent bestsellers as Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.'" Ted Widmer of the New York Times Book Review said "'What Liberal Media' is bold, counterintuitive and cathartic". "The New Yorker" said of the book, "A polemic is nothing

title: Liberal Party (Paraguay)

text: Liberal Party (Paraguay) The Liberal Party (), commonly known as the Blue Party () was a political party in Paraguay, ruling the country for most of the period between 1904 and 1940. The party was established in 1887 to represent the interests of landowners and middle class merchants. The Colorado Party was established in the same year and was dominant until the Liberal Revolution in 1904, after which the Liberal Party remained in government for almost the entire period until 1940. However, the party was dissolved by Higinio Morinigo in 1942, and by the end of the 1947 revolution the

title: Liberal Party (Paraguay)

text: to regain any seats in the 1993 elections, and did not contest any further elections. Liberal Party (Paraguay) The Liberal Party (), commonly known as the Blue Party () was a political party in Paraguay, ruling the country for most of the period between 1904 and 1940. The party was established in 1887 to represent the interests of landowners and middle class merchants. The Colorado Party was established in the same year and was dominant until the Liberal Revolution in 1904, after which the Liberal Party remained in government for almost the entire period until 1940. However, the party was

title: Dalmatian Liberal Party

text: finishing among the last few parties. In 2009 the party merged with Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats. Dalmatian Liberal Party The Dalmatian Liberal Party () was a regional left-wing liberal political party in Croatia formed by dissident members of the Liberal Party. The party was founded on April 4, 2005, and its membership in 2006 was estimated at 160. A number of dissidents, led by Ante Tešija, then president of the Split city branch of the Liberal Party, disagreed with the party's central committee in Zagreb on the proposed reunification of the party with the Croatian Social Liberal Party.

title: Constitutionalist Liberal Party

text: for the November 2006 elections. Eduardo Montealegre, another presidential candidate for the elections, was a former member of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party and formed the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance which includes other former PLC members. Montealegre and Rizo were both defeated, as Sandinista Daniel Ortega finished far enough ahead of both of them to avoid a runoff. Rizo came in third place with 26% of the vote. The party came in second place in the congressional elections. The party was a member of the Liberal International, but left that organization in 2005. Constitutionalist Liberal Party The Constitutionalist Liberal Party () is

title: Liberal Party (Israel)

text: government led by Likud and the religious parties. It also differed from Labor in its support for a free-market economy. Today, a remnant of the Liberal Party, the Israeli Liberal Group, remains an active member of Liberal International, which it joined in 1990. Liberal Party (Israel) The Israeli Liberal Party (, "Miflaga Libralit Yisraelit") was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud. The party was created by a merger between the centrist Progressive Party and the General Zionists, forming a right-leaning, middle-class-based party. The Progressives soon seceded to form the Independent Liberals

title: Liberal Party (UK)

text: David Owen objected and continued to lead a "rump" SDP. In March 1988, the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party merged to create the Social and Liberal Democrats, renamed the Liberal Democrats in October 1989. Over two-thirds of the members and all the serving MPs of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan. A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft (the former Liberal MP for Leeds West) and Paul Wiggin (who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal), continued with a

title: Yukon Liberal Party

text: Yukon Liberal Party The Yukon Liberal Party () is a political party in the territory of Yukon, Canada. Sandy Silver, MLA for Klondike, is the Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and Premier of Yukon. After twenty years as a minor party, the Yukon Liberal Party won the 2000 general election and formed a government under Premier Pat Duncan. The government was plagued with defections, however, and was reduced to minority government status. Duncan called a snap election for November 2002 in the hope of regaining her government's majority. The party was almost completely wiped out, however, by the Yukon

title: Liberal Party (Sudan)

text: but to revive the Liberal Party, which still had widespread grassroots support. However, Deng and the rival Southern Front refused to unite and ran for election independently. A Round Table conference was held in March 1965 to try to resolve the southern problem. After the conference, although the old Liberal Party and the Sudan Unity Party remained in existence in Khartoum, the Southern Front and the William Deng's SANU-Inside faction had become the dominant parties in southern Sudan. The Liberal Party contested the elections under Father Philip Abbas Ghabboush. They won just one seat. Liberal Party (Sudan) The Liberal Party,

title: People's Liberal Party

text: the Young Liberals Party to form the National Liberal Party. People's Liberal Party The People's Liberal Party (, "Narodnoliberalna partiya", NLP) was a political party in Bulgaria. One of the four factions to emerge from the old Liberal Party, the party was established by Stefan Stambolov in 1886 as the Bulgaria for itself organisation, before becoming the NLP the following year. It was the ruling party until Stambolov was dismissed from his post of Prime Minister by Prince Ferdinand in 1894, after which it was briefly banned. In the 1899 elections the party emerged as the second largest in the

title: Association for Liberal Thinking

text: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, with the Heartland Institute as the main sponsor. Association for Liberal Thinking The Association for Liberal Thinking () is a Turkish liberal democrat, non-profit, non-governmental organization. ALT does not involve in daily politics and have no direct links with any political party or movement. The group was informally founded on 26 December 1992 by liberal intellectuals and gained official status as an association under Turkish law on 1 April 1994. Three years after its informal formation the Association started to publish what it recognizes as its main publication, the journal titled "Liberal Düşünce" (Liberal

title: Association for Liberal Thinking

text: Association for Liberal Thinking The Association for Liberal Thinking () is a Turkish liberal democrat, non-profit, non-governmental organization. ALT does not involve in daily politics and have no direct links with any political party or movement. The group was informally founded on 26 December 1992 by liberal intellectuals and gained official status as an association under Turkish law on 1 April 1994. Three years after its informal formation the Association started to publish what it recognizes as its main publication, the journal titled "Liberal Düşünce" (Liberal Thought). The association is based in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has

title: Liberal Party of Australia

text: though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were. In the 1970s a left-wing middle class emerged that no longer voted Liberal. One effect of this was the success of a breakaway party, the Australian Democrats, founded in 1977 by former Liberal minister Don Chipp and members of minor liberal parties. On the other hand, the Liberals have done increasingly well in recent years among socially conservative working-class voters. However, the Liberal Party's key support base remains the upper-middle classes—16 of the 20 richest federal electorates are held by the Liberals, most of which are

title: Senior Whip of the Liberal Party

text: to 1935. The following is a list of senior whips of the Liberal Party (including United) up until the establishment of the National Party: Senior Whip of the Liberal Party The Liberal Party's Senior Whip was a political post with the task of administering the "whipping in" system attempting to ensure that party MPs attend and vote according to the party leadership's wishes. All Liberal whips were members of the House of Representatives with none coming from the Legislative Council. The position held high esteem in the Liberal caucus and it was not uncommon for whips to move in to

title: Colombian Liberal Party

text: Colombian Liberal Party The Colombian Liberal Party (; PLC) is a centrist and social liberal political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal party but later developed a more social-democratic tradition, joining the Socialist International in 1999. The Liberal Party was the dominant force in Colombian politics alongside the Colombian Conservative Party until 2002, when the election victory of independent candidate Alvaro Uribe put an end to dominance of two party politics in Colombia. Currently, the Liberal Party is the second largest party in Congress, and has formed a coalition pact with the Social Party of National

title: Quebec Liberal Party

text: Quebec Liberal Party The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP, ) is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The party has traditionally supported a form of Quebec federalism that supports Quebec remaining within the Canadian federation while also supporting reforms that would allow Quebec substantial autonomy. While the party has been described as centrist in the context of Canadian politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal policies. The party has a social-democratic faction which was especially prominent