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List of historical political parties in Australia

This is a list of historical political parties in Australia.

These parties are no longer registered or active at a federal, state or federal level. Historical names of defunct and current parties are not included in the list as they are not separate entities.

Major parties[edit]

Federal parliamentary parties[edit]

Political party				Period	Main ideology	Position	Political alliance(s)	Maximum seats[a]
								MPs	Senators
	NP	—	Nationalist Party	1917–1931	Nationalism Liberal conservatism	Centre-righttoright-wing	Nationalist–Country coalition	53 / 75	34 / 36
	UAP		United Australia Party	1931–1945	Liberal conservatism	Centre-right	United Australia–Country coalition	34 / 76	26 / 36
	FTP	—	Free Trade Party	1901–1909	Economic liberalism	Centre-right	—	28 / 75	17 / 36
	PP	—	Protectionist Party	1901–1909	Liberalism Protectionism	Centre	—	31 / 75	11 / 36
	LIB	—	Liberal Party	1909–1917	Liberalism	Centretocentre-right	Liberal Union	38 / 75	7 / 36
	NLP	—	National Labor Party	1916–1917	Nationalism	Centre-left	—	14 / 75	9 / 36
	LL	—	Lang Labor	1931–1950	Economic nationalism (Langism)	Centre-left	—	9 / 74	3 / 36
	LU	—	Liberal Union	1922–1925	Liberalism	Centre	—	5 / 75	—
	DLP		Democratic Labor Party	1955–1974	Anti-communism	Centre	—	7 / 124	5 / 60

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State parliamentary parties[edit]

New South Wales[edit]

Notes:

Queensland[edit]

Political party				Period	Main ideology	Position	Leader	Political alliance(s)	Seats[a]
									MLAs	MLCs[b]
	CPNP	—	Country and Progressive National Party	1925–1936	Conservatism	Centre-right	Arthur Edward Moore	—	43 / 72	—
	NAT		National Party[c]	1915–2008	Conservatism Agrarianism Economic liberalism	Centre-righttoright-wing	Frank Nicklin[d]	National–Liberal coalition	49 / 89	—
	LIB		Liberal Party[e]	1943–2008	Liberalism Liberal conservatism	Centre-right	Gordon Chalk[d]	National–Liberal coalition	30 / 82	—
	QLP		Queensland Labor Party	1944–1977	Social democracy Anti-communism	Centre-left	Vince Gair[d]	—	25 / 75	—
	UP	—	United Party[f]	1917–1925	Nationalism Liberal conservatism	Centre-righttoright-wing	Charles Taylor[d]	—	22 / 72	1 / 58
	CCA	—	City Country Alliance	1999–2003	Nationalism Social conservatism	Right-wing	Bill Feldman	—	6 / 89	—
	UAP		United Australia Party	1936–1944	Liberalism Conservatism	Centre-right	Hugh Russell	—	4 / 62	—
	NCP	—	Northern Country Party	1919/20–1923	Agrarianism	—	—	—	3 / 72	—
	CPA		Communist Party[g]	1921–1991	Communism Marxism–Leninism	Far-left	Jack Henry	—	1 / 62	—
	PILP	—	Protestant Independent Labour Party	1923–1940s	Labourism Protestantism Social democracy	Centre-left	—	—	1 / 62	—
	NQLP	—	North Queensland Labor Party	1944–1977	Social democracy Populism	Centre-left	Tom Aikens	—	1 / 75	—
	QP	—	Queensland Party	2010–2012	Regionalism	Centre-righttoright-wing	Aidan McLindon	—	1 / 89	—
	NQF	—	North Queensland First	2019–2021	North Queensland statehood Regionalism	Centre-right	Jason Costigan	—	1 / 93	—

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Other states[edit]

Other represented parties[edit]

Federal[edit]

Political party				Period	Ideology
							CON		Australian Conservatives	2017–2019	Conservatism Economic liberalism
	AP	—	Australia Party	1969–1970	Anti-conscription Social liberalism
	AMEP		Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party	2013–2016	Against anti-hooning laws
	AP		Australian Party	1929–1931	Populism Anti-communism
	APA		Australian Progressive Alliance	2003–2005
	BMLP	—	Blackburn-Mutton Labor Party	1947–1950
	CPP	—	Country Progressive Party	1926–1930
	DHJP	—	Derryn Hinch's Justice Party	2016–2019	Justice reform, Anti-paedophilia
	FFP	—	Family First Party	2005–2011, 2014–2017	Social conservatism Christian right
	CNP		Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party	2019–2020	National conservatism Right-wing populism
	GLT	—	Glenn Lazarus Team	2015–2016
	ISLP	—	Industrial Socialist Labor Party	1919–1921	Socialism
	ALP (N-C)	—	Labor (Non-Communist)	1940–1941	Labour politics Anti-communism
	LCP	—	Liberal Country Party	1937–1943
	LM	—	Liberal Movement	1972–1977	Social liberalism Progressivism
	MLP	—	Majority Labor Party	1922–1923
	NA	—	National Alliance	1974–1977
	NLP	—	National Liberal Party	1974–1974
	NDP	—	Nuclear Disarmament Party	1984–1985, 1987–1988,	Nuclear disarmament
	PP	—	Progress Party	1975–1981	Libertarianism Anti-socialism
	PP	—	Progressive Party	1920–1927	Socially conservative Agrarian socialism
	RTP	—	Revenue Tariff Party	1903–1903
	RPT	—	Rex Patrick Team	2020–2022
	TSISAP		Tim Storer Independent SA Party	2018–2019
	UAP	—	Unite Australia Party	1986–1990
	VFU	—	Victorian Farmers' Union	1916–1920	Pro-farmers
	WAP	—	Western Australian Party	1906–1906

State/territory only[edit]

Parties without representation[edit]

Political party				Period	Ideology
							AFAL		All for Australia League	1931–1932
	ANP	—	Australian Nationalist Party	1958–1958	Anti-immigration
	ANA	—	Australian National Alliance	1978–1981	Anti-immigration, Anti Asian
	AAHP		Australian Affordable Housing Party	2016–2022	Affordable housing
	APP	—	Australian Protectionist Party	2011–2015	Anti-immigration Anti-islam Protectionism
	ANSP	—	Australian National Socialist Party	1962–1968	Nazism White supremacy
	AVP		Australian Values Party	2021–2023	Veterans' rights
	ASP	—	Australian Sports Party	2013–2015
	AAPP	—	Australian Antipaedophile Party	2015–2016
	AAP		Advance Australia Party	1988-2005	Nationalism Populism
	AAFI	—	Australians Against Further Immigration	1989–2008	Anti-immigration Nationalism
	ABFP	—	Australian Better Families	2018–2021	Men's rights
	ACP	—	Australian Commonwealth Party	1972–1972
	ACP	—	Australian Conservative Party	1989–1991
	ACP	—	Australian Cyclists Party	2013–2017
	AIPP	—	Australia's Indigenous Peoples Party	1993–1999
	APP	—	Australian People's Party	2014–2021	Australian nationalism Economic nationalism
	AWP	—	Australian Women's Party	1995–2003	Feminism
	ARFP	—	Australian Recreational Fishers Party	2016–2017	Recreational fishers' interests
	ARP	—	Australian Reform Party	1997–2002	Gun rights
	AFLP	—	Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party	2006–2014	Fishing rights
	AFNPP	—	Australia's First Nations Political Party	2011–2015	Indigenous rights
	ABRG	—	Australian Bill of Rights Group	1995-1999	Bill of Rights
	ADM	—	Australian Defence Movement	1940
	AMP		Australian Marijuana Party	1970s-1980s	Marijuana legalisation
	AMP	—	Australian Motorist Party	2007-2012?	Motorist rights
	ADV	—	Australian Defence Veterans Party	2015–2017	Veterans' rights
	AWP	—	Australian Workers Party	2017–2021	Modern Monetary Theory Social democracy
	ABP	—	Aussie Battler Party	2018–2019	Right-wing populism
	BTFA	—	Bullet Train for Australia	2013–2017
	CP	—	Centre Party	1933-1935	Fascism
	CCC	—	Climate Change Coalition	2007–2010
	CP	—	Commonwealth Party	1943–1944
	CCP	—	Commonwealth Centre Party	1961–1961
	CPA	—	Conservative Party of Australia	1984–1998
	CNAP	—	Combined New Australia Party	1990–1990
	CAP	—	Confederate Action Party of Australia	1992–1993	Far right
	CP	—	Country Party (South Australia)	1917–1932
	CLA	—	Curtin Labor Alliance	2001–2005
	CA	—	Carers Alliance	2007–2015
	CA		Communist Alliance	2009–2012	Communism
	CM		CountryMinded	2014–2018	Agrarianism
	CRNT	—	Consumer Rights & No-Tolls	2016–2018
	GRN		Cowper Greens	1989–1993	[1]
	DS4SEQ	—	Daylight Saving for South East Queensland	2008-2012
	DSP	—	Deadly Serious Party	1980s–1988
	DESP	—	Defence and Ex-Services Party	1986–1989	Veterans' rights
	DOGS	—	Defence of Government Schools	1966–1985
	DPA	—	Democratic Party of Australia	1953–1954
	DSEL	—	Democratic Socialist Electoral League	1998–2001	Socialism Social Democracy
	DCP	—	Douglas Credit Party	1930s, 1960s-1970s	Social credit
	DPDA		Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance	2021–2023	Pro-Taiwan, anti-China
	DLRA	—	Drug Law Reform Australia	2013–2017
	GRN		Eastern Suburbs Greens	1990–1995	[2]
	EAPP	—	Engineered Australia Plan Party	1982–1983
	ENEA	—	Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy Australia	2007–2010	Pro-nuclear power in Australia
	ESSVP	—	Ex-Service, Service and Veterans Party		Veterans' rights
	FPPU	—	Farmers and Producers Political Union	1904–1910
	FPP	—	Freedom and Prosperity Party	2009-2015
	FREE	—	FREE Australia Party	2010–2014
	FLT	—	Fair Land Tax - Tax Party	2010-2014
	FLRP	—	Family Law Reform Party	1996-1999
	FFWA	—	Fluoride Free WA	2017-2019	Oppose mandatory Water fluoridation
	FP	—	Flux Party	2016-2022	Issue-based Direct democracy
	FIN		Federal ICAC Now	2020-2023	Federal ICAC advocacy, Anti-corruption
	G4C		Gamers 4 Croydon	2009–2010
	GA		Green Alliance Senate – NSW	1990–1995	[3]
	GRN		Greens in Lowe	1990–1995	[4]
	GP	—	Grey Power	1983–1994
	GAP	—	Great Australians Party	2003–2006
	HOV	—	Hear Our Voice	2007–2010
	HAP	—	Health Australia Party	2013–2024	Anti-vaccination
	HRP	—	Human Rights Party	1999-2007
	HPA	—	Hope Party Australia	1997–2006
	IDP	—	Independent Democratic Party	1953–1954
	IEFF	—	Independent EFF	1987–1999
	IVFS	—	Independent Voices for the Senate[a]	2021–2023	[5]
	ILP	—	Industrial Labor Party	1936–1939
	IMOP		Informed Medical Options Party	2016–2023	Anti-vaccination
	LDP	—	Liberal Democratic Party	1943–1944
	MAP	—	Mature Australia Party	2014–2017
	MCP	—	Middle Class Party	1943–1943
	LRG	—	Liberal Reform Group	1966–1969
	LEFBP	—	Lower Excise Fuel and Beer Party	2001–2004	Beer Party, Anti GST
	LAOL	—	Love Australia or Leave	2016–2022	Anti-Islam Anti-immigration
	MP	—	Mutual Party	2014–2015
	LPA	—	Libertarian Party of Australia
	MPP	—	Multicultural Progress Party	2014
	NDL	—	National Defence League	1891–1910
	NP	—	National Party (South Australia)	1917–1923
	NHP	—	National Humanitarian Party	1983–1984
	NHHP	—	No Hoo Haa Party	2002–2011
	NLP	—	Natural Law Party	1990–1997
	NFA	—	National Front of Australia	1977–1984	Anti-immigration
	NGSTP	—	No GST Party	2001-2004	Anti GST
	NAN	—	No Aircraft Noise	1995-1999
	NLTC	—	No Land Tax Campaign	2014-2015
	NA	—	National Action	1982-1991	White supremacy Fascism
	NSPA		National Socialist Party of Australia	1964-1977	White supremacy Nazism
	NENSM	—	New England New State Movement
	OAM	—	One Australia Movement	1986–1992	Christian politics
	OAP	—	One Australia Party	1995–1999
	OLM	—	Official Labour Movement	1953–1955
	OPA	—	One Parliament for Australia	1943–1943
	ODD		Online Direct Democracy	2007–2020	Digital direct democracy
	ORP	—	Outdoor Recreation Party (Stop the Greens)	1996–2017
	PIP	—	Pangallo Independents Party
	PPP	—	Party! Party! Party!	1989–1989	Joke
	PPA	—	Pirate Party Australia	2008–2021	Pirate politics E-democracy
	PPP	—	Protestant People's Party	1946–1949
	PCP	—	Progressive Conservative Party	1980–1980	White nationalism Anti-immigration, Anti Asian
	PCIRA	—	Pensioner and Citizen Initiated Referendum Alliance	1982–1996
	PPP	—	People Power Party	2006–2006	Progressivism'
	PPV	—	People Power Victoria – No Smart Meters	2014–2017
	PUAP	—	Pauline's United Australia Party	2007–2010	Protectionism Social conservatism
	RUAP	—	Rise Up Australia Party	2013–2019	Anti-islam Right-wing populism
	SCP	—	Services and Citizens' Party	1943–1944
	SPA	—	Services Party of Australia	1946–1946
	SRP	—	Smokers' Rights Party	2012–2017
	SDP	—	Social Democratic Party	1980–1983	Social democracy
	RFG	—	Referendum First Group	1984–1984
	RPA	—	Republican Party of Australia	1982–2021	Republicanism
	RA	—	Reclaim Australia: Reduce Immigration	1996–1999	Anti-immigration
	STRAH	—	Save the RAH	2010–2010
	RDSDA	—	Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party	2022–2023	Anti-Daniel Andrews
	RWRP	—	Restore the Workers' Rights Party	2007–2011	Workers rights Trade unionism
	SOS	—	Save Our State	1990–2010
	GRN		South Sydney Greens	1990–1995	[6]
	SLP	—	State Labor Party	1940–1944	Communism
	SPGN	—	Stop Population Growth Now	2014–2019?	Opposition to Overpopulation, Anti-immigration
	SRWTP	—	Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party	1989–1989	Joke
	SP	—	Surprise Party	1989–1989	Joke
	UCP	—	United Christian Party	1972–1983	Christian politics
	UTG		United Tasmania Group	1972–1990	Green politics Environmentalism
	TST	—	Tasmania Senate Team	1992-1996	Regionalism
	TFP	—	Tasmania First Party	1996-2006	Regionalism Gun rights
	TOPS	—	Taxi Operators Political Service	1997-2001
	MHP	—	The Australian Mental Health Party	2016–2020	Mental health advocacy
	TBRNR	—	The Basics Rock 'n' Roll Party	2014
	GA		The Victorian Green Alliance	1990–1996	[7]
	WP	—	The Women's Party	2019–2021	Representation parity Liberal feminism
	TNL		The New Liberals	2019–2023	Social liberalism
	VSP	—	Victorian Socialist Party	1906–1932	Socialism Entryism
	VIC	—	Victorians Party	2021–2022	Centrism
	VEP	—	Voluntary Euthanasia Party	2013–2021	Voluntary euthanasia
	VFTW	—	Voice for the West	2014–2015
	WWW	—	What Women Want	2007–2010	Women's rights
	WLP		WikiLeaks Party	2013–2015	Pro-Julian Assange
	GRN		Western Suburbs Greens	1990–1995	[8]
	YVA	—	Yellow Vest Australia	2015–2020	Anti-islam Right-wing populism
	YANP	—	Young Australia National Party	1909–1915	Pro-White Australia

See also[edit]

• Politics of Australia
• List of political parties in Australia
• List of ruling political parties by country

Notes[edit]

References[edit]