Australian People's Party

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The Australian People's Party is a name shared by a number of short-lived political parties in Australia's history.

In 1929, a party of that name endorsed a candidate in the Division of Martin in the Australian elections held that year attracting 4,450 votes which was 7.5% of the vote in that election [1].

George Apap of the Australian Workers' Union formed a party of the same name after an unsuccessful bid for the presidency of the South Australian Australian Labor Party [2]. In 1996, a candidate for the Australian People's Party contested the seat Joondalup in the West Australian election in 1996 achieving just over 300 votes [3].

The party name is currently being used in NSW by Stewart Ulrich.[4]

The Australian People's Party is also the name of a political party in the 2003 film The Honourable Wally Norman that mistakenly nominates meatworker Wally Norman as a candidate in a Federal election [5]. The party has been widely thought to be based on the Labor Party.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ↑  Results for the 1929 Federal election in the Division of Martin published by Adam Carr
  2. ↑  Macquarie Library, Encyclopedia of Australian Events 1997 retrieved from Macquarie Net 29 November 2005
  3. ↑  Australian Parliamentary Library, Background Paper 15 of 1996-97 on the West Australian elections of 1996
  4. ↑  The Australian Peoples Party by Stewart Ulrich
  5. ↑  New York Times Movies article on The Honourable Wally Norman and ABC Tasmania review of the Honorable Wally Norman
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