Liberals for Forests
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- The correct title of this article is liberals for forests. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
liberals for forests is an Australian political minor party. It has contested both state and federal elections in recent years, but has only achieved one elected representative - Janet Woollard (elected as an Independent) in Western Australia. It has no representation at the federal level.
The party was founded in 2001 by Dr Keith Woollard, husband of Janet Woollard and an ex-AMA president.
The Party generally professes itself to be ideologically aligned with the centre-right sympathies of the Liberal Party of Australia, but with a greater regard to environmentalism.
Despite its low profile, the party has gained a respectable proportion of the primary Senate vote in some states. For example, in the 2004 election it received only a few hundred votes less than the Australian Democrats in Victoria. The party was also accused of a number of dirty tricks in NSW in that year.
Note that the registered party name at the Australian Electoral Commission [1] and the Western Australian Electoral Commission [2] is "liberals for forests" (uncapitalised).
[edit] See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy
- Liberalism in Australia
- Blue-Green alliance
[edit] External link
- Liberals for Forests official site
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