Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia   (Political party)
Formation	1944
Founder	Robert Menzies
Member of	International Democrat Union
Sees itself as state-bearing party

The Liberal Party of Australia (LP) 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. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party.

The Liberal Party is the larger and dominant party in the Coalition with the countryside-based National Party of Australia. Except for a few short periods, the Liberal Party and its predecessors have operated in similar coalitions at federal level since the 1920s.

Menzies Era

After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election, and the party stayed in office for a record 23 years— the longest unbroken run ever in government at the federal level. Australia experienced prolonged economic growth during the post-war boom period of the Menzies Government (1949–1966) and Menzies fulfilled his promises at the 1949 election to end rationing of butter, tea and petrol and provided a five-shilling endowment for first-born children, as well as for others.

While himself an unashamed anglophile, allowing British testing of nuclear weapons in Australia, Menzies' government concluded a number of major defence and trade treaties that set Australia on its post-war trajectory out of Britain's orbit and tied it to the United States; including the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the highly strategic spy base in Pine Gap.

 

Party Members

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Tony Abbott	4 November 1957		"The delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift"...
Robert Askin	4 April 1907	9 September 1981	Premier of New South Wales 1965-1975. "A friend of organised crime"
Gladys Berejiklian	22 September 1970		Australian politician; Premier of New South Wales who was blackmailed into vaccine lockdowns.
Julie Bishop	17 July 1956		Australian former politician.
Neil Brown	22 February 1940		An Australian politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Richard Casey	29 August 1890	17 June 1976	Australian who founded ASIS
Mathias Cormann	20 September 1970		Belgian-born Australian politician, Secretary-General of the OECD.
Peter Costello	14 August 1957
Nick Greiner	27 April 1947		Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992.
Terry Griffiths	22 June 1944	8 June 2009	During his time as CEO of The Scout Association in the 1980s, serial sexual abuse by NSW scout leaders took place. Resigned as NSW Police Minister over claims of sexual harassment.
Andrew Hastie	30 September 1982
Brad Hazzard	30 August 1951		health Minister of New South Wales during COVID.
John Howard	26 July 1939
Greg Hunt	18 November 1965		Australian Minister for Health responsible for the government's actions in the COVID-19 deep event. Decades of grooming by the World Economic Forum.
Jeff Kennett	March 1948		[Premier of Victoria
William McMahon	23 February 1908	31 March 1988
Barry O'Farrell	24 May 1959
Philip Ruddock	12 March 1943		Spooky Australian Attorney General.

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