Liberal Country Party

Not to be confused with Liberal and Country Party or Liberal and Country League.

The Liberal Country Party (LCP) was a splinter group of the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party, formed after federal MP John McEwen was expelled from the state branch, the United Country Party, for accepting a ministry in the Lyons-Page Coalition government in 1937. Following a tumultuous party conference in 1938, another federal MP, Thomas Paterson, led a hundred McEwen supporters to form the LCP, a faction of the party loyal to the federal party.^[1] The breach had been resolved by 1943.^[2]

References

↑ Costar, B. J. (1988). "Paterson, Thomas (1882–1952)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
↑ "Victorian C.P. Amalgamation.". The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.: National Library of Australia). 10 April 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 3 September 2014.