The Liberal Party of Australia is the major conservative and centre-right to right-wing political party in Australia. Historically the most electorally successful party in Australia, it was founded in
Sir Robert Menzies, founder of the Liberal Party and prime minister 1939–41 (UAP) and 1949–66
Sir Robert Menzies, Dame Enid Lyons (the first female member of an Australian Cabinet), Sir Eric Harrison, Harold Holt (Menzies' successor) and Tom White, in 1946.
Menzies attending a White House luncheon in his honour with President Kennedy
Harold Holt, Prime Minister 1966–67
The Australian Labor Party is the major social democratic political party in Australia. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum, it is the oldest active party in the country, having been
Liberal Party of Australia
…United Australia Party. It is part of the Liberal–National Coalition—one of the two major groupings in Australian politics—with its main rival being the Labor Party. The Liberal Party is the senior partner in a conservative alliance known in Australian politics as the Liberal–National Coalition, accompanied by the…
Anderson Dawson's ministry leaving Parliament House, Brisbane, after being sworn in on 1 December 1899. His was the first government formed by a Labour party in the world.
Group photograph of federal Labour Party MPs elected to the House of Representatives and Senate at the inaugural 1901 election
Labor Party policy launch before a crowd in the Sydney Domain on 24 November 1975
Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales and Leader of NSW Labor