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11 unusual facts about Liberal Party of Australia


Alan Hickinbotham

He unsuccessfully stood as a Liberal Party candidate for the Division of Hawker in the 1969 Federal election.

Bettina Gorton

In 1969 she came to her husband's defence over an incident sparked by his Liberal colleague Edward St John, a member of the House of Representatives.

Bill Lickiss

Returning to Queensland, he farmed sugarcane and pineapples and joined the Liberal Party.

CHEP

In 1949, a new government under the Liberal Party of Australia decided to privatise the industry and mandated the sale of the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool organisation.

George Thomas Gahan

Labor Party candidates were not only being challenged by the conservative Liberal Party, but were facing a major challenge from their former comrades who had split and joined the increasingly powerful Democratic Labor Party.

On election day Labor's George Gahan received the largest number of votes, achieving 45.29% of the primary vote, ahead of the sitting Liberal Party member Sam Loxton whose primary vote fell to 41.69%.

The Liberal Party was aided by preferences from the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), which had broken away from the Australian Labor Party during the 1950s claiming that the root organisation was too soft towards communism; fears of left-wing influence was causing great concern in Australian society at the time.

John McEwen

When Menzies' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.

National Wine Centre of Australia

Its development by the Olsen Liberal State Government was shrouded in controversy and it was labelled as a white elephant by the Opposition.

Wallarah 2 Coal Project

Before the 2011 State election, the NSW Opposition promised to stop the mine proposal.

Westmead Hospital

Though this project has been planned by the (Askin) NSW State (Liberal) government for six years, that government has informed us that they are unable to spend the money we have provided.


Bickley Vale, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

Blake Pelly

Blake Raymond Pelly OBE (31 May 1907, Buckley, Flintshire - 16 October 1990, Sydney) was an Australian air force officer, politician and businessman, who represented the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales Parliament.

Casual vacancies in the Australian Parliament

On 27 February, the NSW Liberal Premier Tom Lewis appointed Cleaver Bunton, a former long-serving Mayor of Albury, who was not affiliated with any political party.

Centenary House

The Federal Opposition (the Liberal-National Coalition at that time) demanded an enquiry to what they saw as a "rort" and the Keating ALP Government set up a Royal Commission.

Christine Wallace

Christine Wallace's early interest in politics began when appointed a staffer in the office of Peter Shack MP, a Liberal member of the House of Representatives.

Cobbitty, New South Wales

The suburb is in the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Currans Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

David Brand

A member of the Liberal Party, he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1945 to 1975, and also the 19th and longest-serving Premier of Western Australia, serving four terms from the 1959 to the 1971 elections.

Electoral district of Blacktown

Liberal Alfred Dennis won the seat in the 1959 election, but held it for only one term before Labor regained it.

Electoral district of Drummoyne

Currently, the electoral district is represented by John Sidoti of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Electoral district of Hawkesbury

It was represented by Steven Pringle, formerly of the Liberal Party of Australia, who contested the 2007 election as an independent but was defeated by Ray Williams of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Electoral district of Middle Swan

Hegney held the seat until his defeat by Liberal Party candidate Bill Grayden at the 1947 state election.

Electoral district of Smithfield

It is represented by Andrew Rohan of the Liberal Party of Australia, who was elected as the first ever Liberal candidate of the electorate at the New South Wales state election, 2011.

Electoral district of Terrigal

It was contested for the first time at the 2007 election and was won by the former member for Gosford, Chris Hartcher of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Electoral district of West Swan

After its creation prior to the 2008 election, ABC electoral commentator Antony Green calculated a theoretical margin of 10.6% favouring Labor over the Liberal Party in two party preferred terms.

Frank Terenzini

His main competitors for the seat were Bob Geoghegan Liberal and Mayor of the Maitland and former Member for Maitland, Peter Blackmore as an Independent.

Gair Affair

Gair was not the only non-Labor person in Labor's sights: they also offered the post of Ambassador to the Holy See to Frank McManus (he refused outright); and they had been considering offering Liberal senator Peter Durack a seat on the High Court, but never approached him.

Garry Edwards

Garry Keith Edwards MP is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Swansea in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2011 New South Wales state election.

Graeme Weideman

George "Graeme" Weideman (born 6 November 1934) was a Victorian politician representing Frankston for the Liberal Party of Australia from 1976 to 1982 and 1992 to 1996.

Helen Shardey

Helen Jean Shardey (born 31 October 1944, in Melbourne) was a state politician for the Liberal Party of Australia who held the seat of Caulfield from 1996 to 2010.

Lindsay Hartwig

After leaving Parliament he became involved with the Liberal Party of Australia for a time and contested the 1988 South-Coast by-election for the fringe right-wing Citizens Electoral Council.

Multifunction Polis

Liberal Party leader, Andrew Peacock, was especially critical of the Multifunction Polis proposal, as was RSL president Brigadier Alf Garland.

Nigel Smart

After his retirement from football, Smart was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal Party for the electoral district of Norwood in the 2006 South Australian state election.

Olive Zakharov

Four years later, she joined a crossbench group (along with Labor's Chris Schacht, Bruce Childs and Margaret Reynolds and the Liberal Party's Baden Teague) to become involved in the international campaign to free jailed Israeli scientist Mordechai Vanunu.

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Pembroke state by-election, 2009

Liberal Party of AustraliaVanessa Goodwin, a 39-year old lawyer and criminologist, was previously the Liberal candidate for the state seat of Franklin in 2006 and the federal candidate for the equivalent seat in 2007, achieving a rare swing to the Liberal Party.

Petro Georgiou

Petro Georgiou AO (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.

Ralph Willis

One of Willis's final acts, a few days before the 1996 election, was to release (without consulting Keating) a letter purportedly written by the Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett, which suggested that a Liberal government led by John Howard would cut grants to the states.

Richmond by-election, 1984

Liberal Party of AustraliaBrian Pezzutti, former national serviceman and president of the Lismore branch of the Liberal Party.

Rob Maclellan

He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the seats of Gippsland West (1970–76), Berwick (1976–92) and Pakenham (1992–2002).

Robert French

In 1969, at the age of 22, French contested the safe Labor Federal seat of Fremantle for the Liberal Party, which he lost to Kim Beazley, Sr..

SR1

Many general interest paperbacks and the like are printed in SR1; under Gough Whitlam's Labor Government the Australian Ministry of Helth was officially so spelled (though, when Whitlam was replaced by a liberal administration, it reintroduced orthographic conservatism).

Utegate

The following day, Senator Eric Abetz (Liberal, Tasmania) moved that an inquiry into the OzCar scheme be conducted by the Senate Economics Legislation Committee and that, "the Committee should hear evidence from relevant bodies and individuals, including the Department of Treasury, about the operation and management of the proposed OzCar scheme."

Victor Dominello

Victor Michael Dominello MP (born 30 July 1967 in Ryde, New South Wales), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the Coalition state government.

Wannanup

Wannanup is located within the federal seat of Canning, currently held by Liberal Party member Don Randall, and within the state seat of Dawesville, currently held by the Deputy Premier, Dr Kim Hames.

Warren McDonald

The Menzies Liberal Government appointed him to the Australian National Airlines Commission in 1952, operator of Trans Australia Airlines, of which he was chairman by February 1957.

Western Australian state election, 1986

The Labor government, led by Premier Brian Burke, won a second term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Bill Hassell since 16 February 1984.

Western Australian state election, 1989

The Labor government, led by Premier Peter Dowding, won a third term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Barry MacKinnon.

Western Australian state election, 1996

The LiberalNational coalition government, led by Premier Richard Court, won a second term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Dr Geoff Gallop since 15 October 1996.