Australian Democrats, New South Wales division aggregated collection of records

fonds

1981-2022

9669487

Australian Democrats, a left-of-centre political party founded in 1977 and supported by those dissatisfied with the major Australian parties, the Liberals on the right and the Australian Labor Party on the left. The party’s founder, Donald Leslie Chipp, was a Liberal minister until he was denied a post in the 1975 Liberal-National Party government. The Australian Democrats won 9% of the vote in 1977 and elected two senators. In 1980 they elected five senators. Thereafter they frequently held enough seats to give them the balance of power in the upper chamber. In the early 21st century, however, support for the Australian Democrats began to decline with infighting over the party’s direction and with the rise of the Green Party. In 2008 the Australian Democrats lost all their seats in parliament when two senators retired and two were defeated at the polls.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

COLLECTION 1
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division records, 1981-2001

COLLECTION 2
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division further records, 1988-2001

COLLECTION 3
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division further records, 1980-2001

COLLECTION 4
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division further records, 1996-2001

COLLECTION 5
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division further records, 1977-2010

COLLECTION 6
Australian Democrats, New South Wales division further records, 2002-2022

Partly restricted: Applies to Collection 6, MLMSS 11956, boxes 11 & 12

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