NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Protectionist Party

The Protectionist Party was a political party in Australia from the 1880s until 1909. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment.

It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in the rural areas of New South Wales. Its most prominent leaders were Sir Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, who were the first and second Prime Ministers of Australia. Once the issue of tariffs was settled, the Protectionists merged with the Free Trade Party to become the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909.

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Since this party might be considered a liberal party, this article is related to the Liberalism series:

Liberalism - Liberalism worldwide - List of liberal parties - Liberal International - ELDR - Liberal democracy - List of liberal theorists - A short liberal bibliography

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PROTECTION - LoveToKnow Article on PROTECTION (4067 words)
	Thus all those parties which were opposed to direct taxes joined their efforts with those interested in securing protective duties, in order to commit the government to the policy of basing its revenue system on a tariff on imports.
	The policy of the protectionist party had expanded with the growth of the country and the necessity of coming to terms with the antagonistic elements.
	This report remained the armoury from which the protectionists drew their weapons of offence and defence for two generations, and it has not yet ceased to be the centre around which the theoretical contest is waged even to-day in Germany and France as well as in the United States.

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