Extractions: For the first thirty years of responsible government in New South Wales from 1856 onwards, recognisable political parties did not exist. In the Legislative Assembly, proponents of colonial liberalism quickly became predominant and soon achieved much of their agenda such as the secret ballot and universal manhood suffrage (1858). In the nominated Legislative Council, by contrast, conservative interests were very much in control. The prevailing orthodoxy among Assembly Members quickly established itself as liberalism, free trade and the independence of the Member of Parliament to vote as he thought best for the colony. When the conservative/liberal division faded ideological differences between Members became insignificant. The groupings that did exist were factions around prominent leaders such as Sir Charles Cowper, Sir James Martin and, in particular, Sir John Robertson and Sir Henry Parkes. Parkes was Premier five times between 1872 and 1891. From the late 1880s onwards, political parties did emerge divided over the fiscal question: free trade vs. protection. Both parties contained radical and conservative wings and accommodated a variety of interests and opinions (although Catholics and country people tended largely to vote Protectionist). The first Free Trade leader was Sir Henry Parkes followed by Sir George Reid. Sir George Dibbs became the leader of the Protectionists followed briefly by Sir Edmund Barton and then Sir William Lyne.
Shinui Shinui is currently the only active liberal political party in Israel, and findsits ideological position at the center of the political map. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/Shinui.html
Extractions: Shinui History Shinui (Hebrew for "Change") was formed in 1974, a few months after the Yom Kippur (October) War , as one of the protest movements. Its original name was "Shinui - The political and social revival movement." As it was formed, Shinui decided to run for the Knesset In 1976, the late professor Yigael Yadin , who was IDF's second chief of staff, formed a political party which was destined to run for the Knesset - "The Democratic Movement." Shinui and The Democratic Movement began negotiation to form a united party, and indeed in the beginning of 1977 it was born as "Dash - The Democratic Movement For Change." After Dash was formed, a group from "Hamrkaz Hahofshi" ("The Free Center"), led by the late MK Shmuel Tamir, and a group from the Israeli Labor Party , led by Meir Amit, joined it. In the 1977 general elections Dash got 15 seats. At first, Dash did not join the Likud government, led by the late
Liberal Party Of Australia -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article Liberal party of Australia. Categories political parties in Australia, Conservativeparties. This article concerns the modern Australian political party. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/liberal_party_of_australia.ht
Extractions: The Liberal Party of Australia is an (The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines) Australian (Click link for more info and facts about liberal conservative) liberal conservative (An organization to gain political power) political party . Since its foundation in 1945 it has been the dominant party of the centre-right in Australia and competes with the centre-left (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Labor Party) Australian Labor Party for political office, both at the federal level and in the Australian states and territories. The Liberal Party was founded on 31 August, 1945, after (Click link for more info and facts about Robert Menzies) Robert Menzies called a conference in 1944 of conservative parties and other groups opposed to the ruling (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Labor Party) Australian Labor Party . The Liberal Party absorbed several former conservative parties, principally the
Liberal -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article a political party associated with ideals of individual freedom, The politicalopposite of a liberal is a (A person who has conservative ideas or http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/liberal.htm
Extractions: a political party associated with ideals of individual freedom, greater intellectual (Freedom of choice) liberty , greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives, such as the U.S. Constitution. The political opposite of a liberal is a (A person who has conservative ideas or opinions) conservative if capitalized (as in Liberal with a capital-L), the word usually refers to members of a political party that goes by the name (A major political party in Great Britain in the 19th century; now the third largest; advocated reforms and improvement of the conditions of working people) Liberal Party (Note: a party calling itself Liberal may not necessarily follow what some people consider to be Liberalism.)
Grading Political Party Environment Platforms Grading political party Environment Platforms. Elizabeth May Sierra Club of CanadaOctober 2004 Paul Martin and the Liberal party platform earned a B. http://www.elements.nb.ca/theme/politics/sierra/surveys.htm
The Nationalism Project: England After the Second World War, the old Liberal party was relegated to a distant The media and Britain s other political parties alike have declared the BNP http://www.nationalismproject.org/links/england.htm
Extractions: Politics Number 10 Downing Street : This website is maintained by the Prime Minister's office. Parliament : As the name implies, this is the official website of the UK Parliament. House of Lords home page : They may not be with us much longer, but for several hundred years, they've been an important part of British Politics. Always with an inbuilt Conservative majority, the Lords have had an important impact on political events during most of the 19th century. It is only at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th that things changed. United Kingdom Election Results : Site dedicated to reporting election results from British elections using "unbiased information and nothing else." UK National Digital Archive of Datasets : NDAD contains archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies. The system has been available since March 1998 and provides open access to the catalogues of all its holdings, and free access to open datasets following a simple registration process. The information in this archive is primarily UK government data that has been prepared or stored on computer, along with associated documents which are scanned and stored as both image and text files. Public documents on paper which have not been digitized (such as certificates of birth, marriage and death) are not within the present scope of this system.
Ampersand - The Churchill Centre BRITISH political PARTIES DURING CHURCHILL S CAREER by Prof. Churchill wasa Liberal party member from 1904 to 1923. Liberal Unionists http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=145
Welcome To The American Presidency The Republican party is one of the two major political parties in the United Reagan easily won the party s presidential nomination (his most liberal http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0245550-0&templatename=/article/article.ht
Extractions: American University of Beirut The comparisons between Israel's and Lebanon's political party systems are interesting for various reasons. First of all, both systems are similar in that they are considered multiparty systems. This initial observation is, however, misleading because the two systems are genuinely different. In Israel, political parties have dominated the political process, and the smaller parties have had significant roles, including representation of various ethnic as well as national political views. In Lebanon, the role of political parties has been weak, specifically in the tendency for traditional and neotraditional forces to be emphasized while the role of political parties is being undermined by these forces. In Israel, the strong role of political parties was and is being reinforced by an electoral system which is based on proportional representation and one national electoral district, thus allowing for different parties, no matter how small they might be, to get some representation. In Lebanon, the weak role of political parties is being reinforced by a different electoral system, one that is based on simple majority and on small to medium electoral districts. The Lebanese Case: Table (1) shows the composition of the major parties in Lebanon today and their confessional, regional, parliamentary and ideological characteristics. The political life in Lebanon has never been organized around the role of political parties. The pre-Civil War era (1943-1975) was characterized by the inability of the state institutions, especially the parliament, to allow for greater party representation, especially of secular parties (see
Constitution - Politics - Liberal International It is desirable that in each country where there is a political party recognisedby the Liberal International any member organisation in that country should http://www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=532
Labor EHerald: The Scourge Of Political Corruption At the same time, the Liberal party is seeking to hide from public scrutiny moreof the political donations which political parties receive while extending http://eherald.alp.org.au/articles/0705/natp29-01.php
Extractions: Home Federal politics Downloads Audit Office report Melham Hansard extract Also in Federal politics IR laws: women in the firing line 'Welfare to work' a cruel hoax Petrol crisis: Labor's six-point plan ... more By Bob McMullan , MP for Fraser (ACT) The Governments advertising blitz in support of its IR legislation is said to cost around $20 million of taxpayers money. This misuse of public money is consistent with a pattern of behaviour which is damaging our democracy. Date: 29 July 2005 We have reached the situation in which incumbents have an enormous advantage over their challengers. Some benefit from incumbency is inevitable but the extent and manner of this advantage and the deliberate manner in which it has been created should alarm any citizen holding out some hope that their vote is cast in a fair contest. At the same time, the Liberal Party is seeking to hide from public scrutiny more of the political donations which political parties receive while extending greater tax deductibility benefits to wealthy individual donors. But there have been recent big increases, slacker guidelines and the ability to roll some benefits over into future (election) years. For example, the previous maximum spending by all members on postage was $4,170,200. It was just increased to $6,606,413. It has been calculated that with the roll-over provisions a sitting member could have $80-90,000 available for a postal blitz during the election campaign.
SWEDEN.SE - Swedish Political Parties In the Riksdag, Sweden s Parliament, seven political parties are represented The other parties are the Moderates (formerly Conservatives), liberals, http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/BasicFactsheet____3152.aspx
Extractions: Future challenges ... Print version Swedish Political Parties In the Riksdag, Sweden's Parliament, seven political parties are represented today. The largest is the Social Democrats, which is also the party that has played the most prominent role in Swedish politics in the past one hundred years. The other parties are the Moderates (formerly Conservatives), Liberals, Christian Democrats, Center Party (formerly Agrarians), Left Party (formerly Communists) and Green Party. The parties have traditionally been grouped into a rightist (non-socialist) and leftist (socialist) bloc. Toward the end of the 20thcentury, however, partially new dividing lines also began to play a major role, especially environmental issues and European economic and political integration. Today the parties face new challenges, among them a growing problem in recruiting new members, as well as a general distrust of established political institutions. The origins of the parties Somewhat later, two new parties emerged. On the one hand, the Communist Party was established in 1917 by the social democratic youth movement and party intellectuals who disliked the political pragmatism that characterized their party's stance on ideological principles. On the other hand, farmers' representatives began to break away from other parties, because they found it increasingly difficult to make themselves heard, for example, in the conservative camp. In 1922 the Agrarian Party, forerunner of today's Center Party, was established.
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The Liberal Party General Election Manifesto, 2001 This is the Manifesto of the Liberal party, not to be confused with the Liberal the Liberal party to continue the genuine Liberal political tradition to http://www.liberal.org.uk/2001ge/manifesto.htm
Extractions: 2001 General Election An Introduction Some Recent History What the Liberal Party Stands For How we get things done ... A-Z of Liberal Party Policies An Introduction This is the Manifesto of the Liberal Party, not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats. We seek to build a Liberal society in which every citizen possesses liberty, property and security, with none enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. Our chief care is for the rights and opportunities of the individual and in all spheres we set freedom first. The policies detailed here reflect the fundamental Liberal belief in the equality of personal worth of every individual and a society which maximises the life chances of all, regardless of colour, creed, race, gender, sexual orientation, or where they live on the planet. Liberals proclaim that everyone should enjoy freedom of thought, of speech and of action, provided they do not impinge on the freedom of others, and that everyone should be equal before the law. We hope that, having read the manifesto, you will support us by voting Liberal, by becoming a member or by contributing to our campaign funds.
Liberal Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica Liberal party a British political party that emerged in the mid19th century asthe successor to the historic Whig party. It was the major party in http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048115
Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction History. Policy and structure. Additional Reading Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Liberal Party Encyclopædia Britannica Article Page 1 of 4 a British political party that emerged in the mid-19th century as the successor to the historic Whig Party. It was the major party in opposition to the Conservatives until 1918, after which it was supplanted by the Labour Party. The Liberals continued as a minor party until 1988, when they merged with the Social Democratic Party to form what is now called the
The Dominion: How The Liberal Party Works How the Liberal party Works. We hold elections, but do our political partiespractice democracy? by Dru Oja Jay. ballot.jpg Is this what Canadian democracy http://dominionpaper.ca/features/2003/08/23/how_the_li.html
Extractions: Is this what Canadian democracy looks like? In November 2003, Paul Martin willbarring unimaginable circumstancesbe chosen as Canada's next Prime Minister. Legally and politically, this choice is not made by the Canadian public at large, but rather by a private club known as the Liberal Party of Canada. Even given that the Liberal Party has over 500,000 members (according to recent reports, a larger membership than any political party in Canadian history), most Canadians will not have a say in this decision. Indeed, it is already too late for anyone who wanted to vote in the party's leadership election to vote, members had to join by last June. And if you had the foresight to join the party four months before the election, you also have to pay a membership fee, and be prepared for a potentially long journey on voting day in order to cast a ballot. Why is everyone so sure that Paul Martin will win the leadership? Allan Rock and Brian Tobin, considered contenders early on, were so sure of a Martin victory that they dropped out months ago. But few would argue that Martin's
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A Short, Sharp Political Education - Opinion - Www.smh.com.au But while the political education fund finances political parties, it cuts outindependents, The Liberal party s claims are pretty similar to Labor s. http://smh.com.au/news/Opinion/A-short-sharp-political-education/2005/01/07/1104
Extractions: January 8, 2005 Back in 1993 the NSW Parliament passed an amendment to the Election Funding Act that was supposed to tighten a series of loopholes. It was part of a deal with the independents who held the balance of power during the Greiner and Fahey governments. But the legislation contained a section that completely changed the way state politics is funded in NSW. The legislation was put on the table one week, and brought on for debate at 1.50 one morning of the next. After three speakers it passed the Legislative Assembly by 2.03am. The changes established what is called a "political education fund" in NSW. But the money didn't go to schools to educate children about democracy or the electoral system. It didn't go to the parliamentary library, it didn't go to the electoral commissioner, and it certainly didn't go to the various schools of government in the various universities around Sydney. Instead, the money went to the political parties. In a single stroke, public funding of political parties was doubled. Basically, the legislation gives parties the cost of a stamp for every vote they received in the previous lower house election. And they get it every year for the four years between elections.