The United Australia Party, formerly known as Clive Palmer's United Australia Party and the Palmer United Party, is an Australian political party formed by billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer in A
Clive Palmer, party founder
Clive Palmer portrait
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The United Australia Party was an Australian political party which was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Countr
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…the senate and Ralph Babet was elected as a senator for Victoria at that election. Palmer announced in November 2012 he was considering re-forming the United Australia Party, which ceased to exist after it was folded into the present-day Liberal Party of Australia in 1945. He had been a longtime supporter of the federal…
Joseph Lyons, inaugural leader of the UAP and the party's first prime minister
Advertisement for the U.A.P. published in The Bulletin prior to the 1931 federal election.
At the 1931 federal election, the UAP campaigned on a platform of economic conservatism, accusing the Labor governments of James Scullin and Jack Lang of destroying the economy
Anti-Lang advertisement used by the UAP at the 1932 New South Wales state election