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Encyclopedia > Liberal Democratic Party of Australia

The Liberal Democratic Party is a small Australian political party founded in 2001 which purports to adhere to free market principles broadly comparable to those of the United States Libertarian Party. The party claims members in four states and is registered in the Australian Capital Territory, although it is not registered federally due to its small size. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy... The Libertarian Party is a United States political party created in 1971. ... The Australian States and Territories comprise the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege (For the Queen, the Law and the People) Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ...


The LDP's official platform takes a laissez-faire approach to economics and has socially liberal policies on civil liberties. Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... Civil liberties are protections from the power of governments. ...


At the first elections they contested, in 2001 in the ACT, the LDP ran candidates in all seats and polled 1% of the vote, for a total of around 2000 votes. In the 2004 ACT election they again ran candidates in all seats and received 1.3% of the vote. They did not run candidates in the federal elections of 2004. An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ... Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege (For the Queen, the Law and the People) Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ... Legislative elections were held in Australia on 9 October 2004. ...


External links

  • Liberal Democratic Party of Australia official site




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The term small-l liberal is used, particularly in reference to Australian and Canadian politics, to distinguish between holders of an ideology of liberalism and adherents to either the Liberal Party of Australia or the Liberal Party of Canada (capital L).
United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia.
The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a fusion of the non-Labor parties in 1909 in response to Labor's growing electoral prominence.
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