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The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and branded as Liberal Victoria, [11] is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. [12]
Until federation in 1901, the only major political party active in Victorian state politics was the Labour Party. The main political groupings were the Ministerialists and Oppositionists, which either supported or opposed the government of the day. [5] The first Victorian Premier to be considered a Liberal was Graham Berry, who took office in ...
The Victorian Liberal Party (VLP), often called the Hollway Liberals, was an independent political party formed on 27 October 1954 from a grouping of supporters of Thomas Hollway, a former leader of the Liberal and Country Party and Premier of Victoria. The extant Liberal and Country Party was the actual Victorian division of the Liberal Party.
Non-Party Conservatism (Electoral Reform) MLA for Lowan (1894–1906) 10 June 1902 16 February 1904 1 year, 251 days 1902 32. 17th Sir James Patterson (1833–1895) KCMG: Non-Party Conservatism: MLA for Castlemaine (1870–1895) 23 January 1893 27 September 1894 1 year, 247 days 33. 13th Sir Bryan O'Loghlen (1828–1905) Bt: No Party Alignment ...
The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition, is an alliance of centre-right political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Victorian politics. [2] The two partners in the Coalition are the Liberal Party and the National Party (the latter previously known as the Country Party and the United Country ...
The election was triggered by events related to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955, in which followers of B. A. Santamaria's "Movement"—Catholic, anti-Communist, right-aligned members of the Labor Party—were accused by federal leader H. V. Evatt of contributing to his loss of the 1954 federal election to Robert Menzies. The federal ...
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. Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:
Bradley William Battin (born 12 December 1975 [1]) is an Australian politician who has served as the leader of the Victorian Liberal Party since 27 December 2024, and as member for Berwick in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2022.