People's Party | |
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Founded | October 1910 |
Dissolved | October 1917 |
Merged into | National Federation |
Membership (1912) | 30,000 |
Ideology | Agrarianism Anti-socialism |
The People's Party was a political organisation in the Australian state of Victoria. It was established in 1910 by farmers opposed to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It co-ordinated political campaigns with other anti-Labor organisations, supporting the parliamentary Liberals and later the Nationalists after 1917. It merged into the National Federation in 1917, after an earlier abortive merger with the Commonwealth Liberal Party.