Australian People's Party

The Australian People's Party is a name shared by a number of short-lived political parties in Australia's history.

From Federation to 1911 a party of that name existed contesting rural seats. It merged with the Commonwealth Liberal Party to form the People's Liberal Party.

In 1929, a party of that name endorsed a candidate in the Division of Martin in the Australian elections held that year attracting 4,450 votes which was 7.5% of the vote in that election ref|1.

George Apap of the Australian Workers' Union formed a party of the same name after an unsuccessful bid for the presidency of the South Australian Australian Labor Party ref|2. In 1996, a candidate for the Australian People's Party contested the seat Joondalup in the West Australian election in 1996 achieving just over 300 votes ref|3.

The Australian People's Party appeared as a fictional political party in the 2003 film "The Honourable Wally Norman", where it mistakenly nominates meatworker Wally Norman as a candidate in a Federal election.ref|5 The party has been widely thought to be based on the Labor Party.Fact|date=March 2008

As of 2008, the party name is currently being used in NSW by Stewart Ulrich.ref|4

Footnotes

# [http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1929/1929-martin.txt Results for the 1929 Federal election in the Division of Martin published by Adam Carr]
# Macquarie Library, "Encyclopedia of Australian Events" 1997 retrieved from Macquarie Net 29 November 2005
# [http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bp/1996-97/97bp15.htm Australian Parliamentary Library, Background Paper 15 of 1996-97 on the West Australian elections of 1996]
# [http://www.ozpolitic.com/app/australian-peoples-party.html The Australian Peoples Party by Stewart Ulrich]
# [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=290227 New York Times Movies article on "The Honourable Wally Norman"] and [http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/stories/s989298.htm ABC Tasmania review of the Honorable Wally Norman]