Australian Labor Party split of 1916
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The Australian Labor Party split of 1916 occurred following severe disagreement within the
Nationalist Party of Australia and won the 1917 federal election. The Nationalist Party served as the main conservative party of Australia until 1931, and the split resulted in many early Labor figures ending their careers on the political right. Hughes, for instance, sat as a member of the Nationalists and their successors, the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party, with only a few short breaks until his death in 1952.[1]
The split had different impacts in different states. In
state Labor Party having experienced the loss of many early members a decade earlier when William Kidston led a breakaway group out in 1907.[2] During the war Premier T. J. Ryan made strong efforts to minimise losses.[3] Only one member of the state parliament, John Adamson, left the party, and initially there was no attempt to create an alternate vehicle at the state level. However, in October 1919 Adamson was part of the formation of a National Labor Party for ex-Labor supporters that used the name.[4] It had no electoral success and soon disappeared.[5]
See also
- History of the Australian Labor Party § World War I conscription and the split of 1916
- Australian Labor Party split of 1931
- Australian Labor Party split of 1955
References
- ^ "William Hughes". Prime Ministers of Australia. National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ISBN 9780701603120.
- ISBN 9780702222894.
- ^ "20 Oct 1919 - THE DAILY MIRROR". Daily Standard (Brisbane, QLD. : 1912 - 1936). Trove. 21 October 1919. p. 4. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ Irving, Baiba; Schedvin, Bernie (May 1973). "A Confidential Report on Nationalist Organisation in Queensland, 1920". Queensland Heritage. 2 (8): 15n.