All for Australia League | |
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 Emblem used on AFAL badges | |
| President | Alexander James Gibson |
| Founded | 28 January 1931 |
| Dissolved | early 1932 |
| Merged into | United Australia Party |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Membership (June 1931) | 130,000[1] |
| Ideology | Anti-establishment |
| Political position | Right-wing[2] |
| Brighton City Council | 1 / 12 (1931–1932)
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The All for Australia League (AFAL) was an Australian political movement during the Great Depression. It was founded in early 1931 and claimed to have amassed 130,000 members by June 1931. Right-wing and anti-establishment in nature, the league had the backing of a number of prominent businessmen and industrialists. It was critical both of the Labor Party and the right-wing Nationalist Party. It primarily operated in Sydney, but also had branches in country New South Wales and absorbed a similar organisation in Victoria. The league eventually chose to co-operate with the existing Nationalist organisation at the 1931 federal election, helping preselect candidates for the new United Australia Party (UAP). After the election victory the league was absorbed by the UAP's state organisation.[3]
- ^ Matthews 1969, p. 139.
- ^ Carole Ferrier. "A red revolutionist and ranter". Australian National University. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
- ^ Robinson 2008.