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National Labor Party

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The National Labor Party was formed by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes in 1916 following the 1916 Labor split on the issue of World War I conscription in Australia. [1]

36 relations: Andrew Fisher, Australia, Australian conscription referendum, 1916, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party split of 1916, Australian Senate, Billy Hughes, Canberra, Centre-left politics, Commonwealth Liberal Party, Conscription in Australia, George Pearce, Hugh de Largie, Interventionism (politics), John Adamson (Queensland politician), John Scaddan, Joseph Cook, List of political parties in Australia, Nationalism, Nationalist Party (Australia), Patrick Lynch (Australian politician), Perth, Politics of Australia, Premier of Western Australia, Prime Minister of Australia, Social democracy, T. J. Ryan, Tasmania, Western Australia, Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Western Australian Legislative Council, Western Australian state election, 1917, Western Australian state election, 1921, Western Australian state election, 1924, World War I, World War I conscription in Australia.

Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher (29 August 186222 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served three separate terms as Prime Minister of Australia – from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913, and from 1914 to 1915.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian conscription referendum, 1916

The 1916 Australian plebiscite was held on 28 October 1916.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Labor Party split of 1916

The Australian Labor Party split of 1916 occurred following severe disagreement within the Australian Labor Party over the issue of proposed World War I conscription in Australia.

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Billy Hughes

William Morris Hughes, (25 September 186228 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1915 to 1923.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

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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, shortly after Federation.

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Conscription in Australia

Conscription in Australia, or mandatory military service also known as national service, has a controversial history dating back to the first years of nationhood.

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George Pearce

Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO (14 January 1870 – 24 June 1952) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1901 to 1938.

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Hugh de Largie

Hugh de Largie (24 March 1859 – 9 May 1947) was an inaugural member of the Australian Senate in Western Australia for the Australian Labor Party, National Labor Party, and Nationalist Party of Australia from 1901 to 1922.

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Interventionism (politics)

Interventionism is a policy of non-defensive (proactive) activity undertaken by a nation-state, or other geo-political jurisdiction of a lesser or greater nature, to manipulate an economy and/or society.

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John Adamson (Queensland politician)

John Adamson CBE (18 February 1857 – 2 May 1922) was an English-born Australian politician.

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John Scaddan

John Scaddan, CMG (4 August 1876 – 21 November 1934), popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.

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Joseph Cook

Sir Joseph Cook, (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947) was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914.

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List of political parties in Australia

This article lists political parties in Australia.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Nationalist Party (Australia)

The Nationalist Party was an Australian political party.

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Patrick Lynch (Australian politician)

Patrick Joseph Lynch (24 May 1867 – 15 January 1944) was an Australian politician. Lynch was born in Skearke, County Meath, Ireland and educated at Cormeen National School and Bailieborough Model School, County Cavan. He migrated to Queensland in 1886 and cut railway sleepers near Charleville and then travelled to the Croydon goldfields. In 1888 he started to work on ships operating along the Australian coast and in the South Pacific, eventually qualifying as a marine engineer. He worked as an engineer on a sugar plantation in Fiji and then on the Kalgoorlie goldfields in Western Australia. He helped found and Goldfields and Engine-drivers' Association and was its general secretary from 1897 to 1904. He married Annie Cleary in 1901.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Politics of Australia

The politics of Australia takes place within the framework of a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Premier of Western Australia

The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive branch of government in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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T. J. Ryan

Thomas Joseph Ryan (1 July 1876 – 1 August 1921) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919, as leader of the state Labor Party.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state.

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Western Australian Legislative Council

The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia.

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Western Australian state election, 1917

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 29 September 1917 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.

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Western Australian state election, 1921

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 12 March 1921 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly.

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Western Australian state election, 1924

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 22 March 1924 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War I conscription in Australia

During the second half of World War One, the First Australian Imperial Force experienced a shortage of men as the number of men volunteering to fight overseas declined and the casualty rate increased.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Party

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