Mutual Party

The Mutual Party (previously the Bank Reform Party) is a de-registered minor political party in Australia.[1]

The party has been involved in Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance.[2][3]

The party's lead candidate for the Senate in Western Australia at the 2014 special election was Anthony Fels, who has been a Liberal (and later independent) member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, and an independent and Katter's Australian Party Senate candidate at the 2010 and 2013 federal elections, respectively.[4][5]

In March 2015, the Australian Progressive Party (not to be confused with the similarly named Australian Progressives) announced that it had absorbed the Mutual Party after they agreed to join forces.[6]

The Mutual Party was deregistered in April 2015, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.[7]

  1. ^ Deregistered/renamed political parties: AEC
  2. ^ Bitter dispute erupts over Senate preferences in Queensland: ABC 5 September 2013
  3. ^ Alliance of micro parties boosts odds for likes of One Nation or Shooters and Fishers gaining Senate spot through preferences: Daily Telegraph 5 September 2013
  4. ^ Rex Drabik (1 April 2014). "Senate candidate focuses on housing crisis" – The Esperance Express. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  5. ^ WA: Group M for Mutual in the WA Senate Archived 13 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine – The Mutual Party. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Media Release: Mutual Party joins forces with Australian Progressive Party". Australian Progressive Party. 13 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Deregistered parties - Mutual Party". Australian Electoral Commission. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.