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98-531: A " No Pokies " ticket that ran in South Australian state elections from 1997 to 2006. He was elected in 1997 and 2006. The 2013 Australian federal election saw independent "Nick Xenophon Group", with Xenophon as the lead candidate, win 24.9 percent of the statewide upper house vote in South Australia. This was an unprecedented result for a non-major party with Nick Xenophon Group outpolling
147-690: A branch of the Liberal Party, but it is affiliated with the Nationals and members elected to federal parliament may sit as either Liberals or Nationals. The Country Liberal Party was formed in 1978 when the Northern Territory gained responsible government. It is a separate member of the federal coalition, but it is affiliated with the two major members and its president has voting rights in the National Party. The name refers to
196-623: A former South Australian Liberal leader who had left the Liberal party, and at the time was an independent and part of the state Labor cabinet , declared his support for the NXT candidate Rebekha Sharkie in Mayo for the upcoming federal election . He said "I think Rebekha's a good candidate for Mayo, I live in Mayo so I want a candidate that's going to stick up for SA and the local district and I think she's
245-449: A limited number of seats and do not generally directly compete with the Liberal Party. Its ideology is generally more socially conservative than that of the Liberal Party. In 1987, the National Party made an abortive run for the office of prime minister in its own right, in the Joh for Canberra campaign. However, it has generally not aspired to become the majority party in the coalition, and it
294-487: A new application had been lodged to change the name to Centre Alliance . The application to change the name and logo was advertised for objection by the Australian Electoral Commission on 7 May 2018. Xenophon himself ceased to be directly involved with the party. The name and logo change were registered by the electoral commission on 8 June 2018. In August 2020, Senator Rex Patrick left
343-584: A new party in South Australia in time for the March 2018 state election to enable them to focus on domestic South Australian issues as opposed to wider Australia. The party was registered on 4 July as Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST . The independent John Darley left the management committee of the Nick Xenophon Team party on 17 August 2017 to avoid expulsion from the party. He said: "There are many things I could say as to why I have resigned. However, it
392-515: A result where Kingston ended up as the only South Australian seat to record an increase to a major party primary vote. Kingston also recorded the highest major party primary vote of just 49 percent. In NXT's presence, no party won a majority of the primary vote in any of the eleven seats. NXT's lower house primary vote was highest in Mayo (34.9%) and lowest in Adelaide (12.9%). While Mayo has always polled strongest for minor parties, Adelaide's result
441-485: A three-year term; while Rebekha Sharkie won the lower house seat of Mayo . Xenophon resigned from the Senate in 2017 and was replaced by Rex Patrick . Kakoschke-Moore resigned from the Senate in 2017 and was replaced by Tim Storer , although Storer had resigned from the party at that stage, so sat as an independent. Skye Kakoschke-Moore was announced as the lead Senate candidate for the 2019 election. Rebekha Sharkie
490-679: A year. It supports introducing labelling laws to provide customers with information on ingredients and their country of origin. In October 2020, Centre Alliance supported the government's university reform bill. The government stated that: “(the) reforms will create 30,000 (university) places next year, while cheaper fees in certain fields will deliver more graduates in areas of expected job growth”. The student cost of humanities, law and commerce degrees increased, while teaching, nursing, English, languages, maths, agriculture, science, health, architecture, environmental science, IT and engineering degrees decreased. The selection process for NXT candidates at
539-762: Is "a separate entity, a separate association, a separate party" from Centre Alliance. The party's ideological focus is a combination of socially liberal and populist policies, drawing from the positions of Xenophon. Its present members have variously declared support for same-sex marriage , reform of the Australian Intelligence Community , action on climate change , support for military veterans, affordable tax cuts, Australian-made manufacturing (including defence-industry spending), and legalising euthanasia . Nick Xenophon ran for election as an independent candidate in Australia under
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#1732765150765588-594: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Centre Alliance Centre Alliance ( CA ), formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team ( NXT ), is a centrist Australian political party based in the state of South Australia . It currently has one elected representative, Rebekha Sharkie in the House of Representatives . Since its founding in July 2013,
637-797: Is generally liberal conservatism . Every elected prime minister of Australia since 1910 has been a member of either the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, or one of the Liberal Party's previous incarnations (the Commonwealth Liberal Party , the Nationalist Party of Australia , and the United Australia Party ). The Liberal Party is joined by the National Party , a party that represents rural and agricultural interests. The Nationals contest
686-538: Is generally understood that the prime minister of Australia will be a member of either the Labor or Liberal parties. On two occasions (involving Earle Page in 1939, and John McEwen from December 1967 to January 1968), the deputy prime minister , the leader of the National Party (then known as the Country Party), became the prime minister temporarily, upon the death of the incumbent prime minister. Arthur Fadden
735-663: Is in contrast to 2007 where the Xenophon Senate ticket polled better in Adelaide than in most other seats. NXT candidates in Barker and Grey both placed second to the Liberal incumbents and placed second in Port Adelaide to the Labor incumbent. NXT's South Australian lower house vote was 21.3 percent. NXT did not poll as highly in other states. The overall nationwide NXT primary vote was 3.3 percent (456,369 votes) in
784-856: Is in government in New South Wales , Victoria , South Australia , Western Australia , the Australian Capital Territory and the Federal Government of Australia . The other group is a conservative grouping of parties that are in coalition at the federal level, as well as in New South Wales , but compete in Western Australia and South Australia . It is in government in Tasmania and the Northern Territory . The main party in this group
833-607: Is made up of single member districts. Two political groups dominate the Australian political spectrum, forming a de facto two-party system. One is the Australian Labor Party (ALP), a centre-left party which is formally linked to the Australian labour movement . Formed in 1893, it has been a major party federally since 1901, and has been one of the two major parties since the 1910 federal election . The ALP
882-442: Is not my place to speak publicly about internal party matters". Though it was stated that there had been months of conflict between Darley and the party, it came to a head a week prior when Darley voted with the Labor government to back Legislative Council voting reforms. Xenophon indicated the resignation had averted Darley's imminent expulsion from the party due to "breaches to party rules". Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST therefore contested
931-534: Is the centre-right Liberal Party . The Liberal Party is the modern form of a conservative group that has existed since the combination of the Protectionist Party and Free Trade Party into the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909. Although this group has changed its nomenclature, there has been a general continuity of MPs and structure between different forms of the party. Its modern form was founded by Robert Menzies in 1944. The party's philosophy
980-556: The Sydney Morning Herald argued that NXT's debut national election had been undermined by the rise of Turnbull . However, polling conducted after the change of Prime Minister indicated NXT support had only fallen by 0.2% in votes for the lower house, while support rose by 4% in the Senate. Multiple seat-level opinion polls in the South Australian rural Liberal seats of Mayo , Grey and Barker during
1029-784: The 2010 Australian Federal Election . To maintain registration, parties must demonstrate that they have a certain number of members. Federally, since 2022, unless a party has current parliamentary representation, they must demonstrate they have 1,500 members. For the state and territory elections, parties require 100 members in Tasmania and the ACT, 200 in South Australia and Northern Territory, 500 in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and 750 in New South Wales. Parties listed in alphabetical order as of September 2024: As of
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#17327651507651078-459: The 2014 South Australian state election , John Darley, who took Nick Xenophon's place in the state parliament in 2007, ran under the banner of Independent Nick Xenophon Team. Without Xenophon as a candidate, being in the national senate, John Darley won 12.9 percent of the statewide upper house vote. John Darley , who was appointed in 2007 to succeed Xenophon for "No Pokies", was re-elected. On 5 March 2017, Xenophon announced that he would launch
1127-480: The 2016 election campaign found NXT leading the Liberals on the two-candidate vote in all three seats. ABC psephologist Antony Green indicated NXT had a "strong chance of winning lower house seats and three or four Senate seats". Centre Alliance has attracted strong criticism from the Liberal Party. In 2015, soon after becoming Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull intimated that NXT would struggle to overcome
1176-454: The 2016 federal election was called "exhaustive", with senate candidate for South Australia and campaign manager Stirling Griff being largely responsible. In a later article, however, Richardson called it "a two-man team" of selectors (Griff and Xenophon). According to Griff, NXT aimed to field candidates that had "real life experience" as opposed to "celebrities [...] academics [...] [or] political groupies". These comments were reflected in
1225-462: The Australian 2016 federal election for the upper house with two candidates in each of the six states, a candidate in all eleven lower house seats in South Australia, and additionally a candidate in seven lower house seats in three other states – Calare , Lindsay , Macarthur and Warringah in New South Wales, Groom and Moreton in Queensland, and Higgins in Victoria. As the election
1274-538: The Australian House of Representatives , and the use of the single transferable vote to elect the upper house , the Australian Senate . Other parties tend to perform better in the upper houses of the various federal and state parliaments since these typically use a form of proportional representation , except for in Tasmania where the lower house is proportionally elected and the upper house
1323-537: The Australian Labor Party to come in second behind the Liberal Party of Australia , which won office. Although Xenophon was re-elected, his running mate Stirling Griff narrowly missed out to Bob Day of the Family First Party . In 2014, Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) emerged from Nick Xenophon Group. Its management committee was composed of Xenophon, John Darley , Griff, and Connie Bonaros . In
1372-489: The Australian Labor Party , which was the opposition party to the governing Liberal Party of Australia . A February poll for the next South Australian Election indicated a similar amount of support (20.5%), but with NXT third behind Labor. ABC election analyst Antony Green believes that NXT could attract some 10-12% of the vote in the eastern states. Griff believes that a double dissolution election could see as many as six NXT senators elected. A 15 January 2016 article in
1421-493: The Liberal/National Coalition . Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of the upper house (senators). The Parliament of Australia has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting , with full- preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house ,
1470-758: The 2016 Federal Election Rebekha Sharkie won the lower house seat of Mayo, previously a safe Liberal seat. Sharkie's win delivered the party's first and only seat in the House of Representatives. Centre Alliance claims to support Australian industry, often citing economic nationalism on matters before the Parliament: "When it comes to Australian made, successive governments have abandoned Australian industries and jobs by failing to stand up for Australian farming and manufacturing." It states that better outcomes can be achieved by requiring Australian governments to buy Australian goods and services, which may amount to A$ 60 billion
1519-621: The 2016 federal election, with Xenophon citing the government's ambiguity on the Collins class submarine replacement project as motivation. NXT fielded two senate candidates in every state, with four in South Australia. It fielded candidates in all eleven of the South Australian House of Representatives seats, along with Calare , Lindsay , Macarthur and Warringah in New South Wales, Groom and Moreton in Queensland and Higgins in Victoria. In June 2014, polling in
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1568-679: The 2018 election without state parliamentary representation. The party submitted an application to change its name, abbreviation and logo to SA-BEST (Federal) to the Australian Electoral Commission in February 2018. The application was open for public objection until 7 March 2018 before a decision would be made, but on 9 April 2018 the Electoral Commission announced that the application had been withdrawn. Party supporters were advised on 10 April that
1617-417: The Australian Electoral Commission investigate questionable loans given to Xenophon by businessman Ian Melrose. In the presence of NXT candidates in all eleven South Australian seats, both major parties recorded a suppressed primary vote, resulting in a reduction of the major party primary vote in all but one South Australian seat. Though Labor picked up a two-party swing in all eleven, NXT's presence produced
1666-410: The Senate and 1.9 percent (250,333 votes) in the House. Though NXT's South Australian Senate primary vote was reduced to 21.7 percent (–3.1 from 2013), the reduced Senate quota allowed more candidates to be successful. In the end, three NXT senators and one lower house MP were elected. In the senate, Xenophon and Stirling Griff were elected to six-year terms, and Skye Kakoschke-Moore was elected for
1715-524: The Senate with the party in 2016, left the party in August 2020. He ran as the lead candidate of the Rex Patrick Team , but failed to win re-election. List of political parties in Australia [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The politics of Australia has a mild two-party system , with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and
1764-544: The composition of NXT candidates for the election, with one third of them coming from a small business, grassroots background. Xenophon confirmed in December 2014 that by mid-2015 Nick Xenophon Team would announce candidates in the South Australian Liberal seats of Sturt , Hindmarsh and Mayo , along with seats in all states and territories, and preference against the government in the upper house, at
1813-582: The deficiencies of its leader, adding "Nick’s track record to date is that when he last ran with a running mate, he and Ann Bressington split up". Education Minister Simon Birmingham attacked NXT candidate for the seat of Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie , for seeking the support of a farming group who had previously supported One Nation founder Pauline Hanson . Xenophon rejected these claims as the group in question had not endorsed One Nation, but merely spoke "at an event". In 2016, Martin Hamilton-Smith ,
1862-467: The older name of the National Party. Federally, these parties are collectively known as the Coalition . The Coalition has existed continually (between the Nationals and their predecessors, and the Liberals and their predecessors) since 1923, with minor breaks in 1940, 1973, and 1987. Historically, support for either the Coalition or the Labor Party was often viewed as being based on social class, with
1911-483: The party has twice changed names. At the time of the 2016 federal election , it was known as the Nick Xenophon Team. After Nick Xenophon founded SA-BEST , an affiliated state-based party, NXT sought to change its name to SA-BEST (Federal) . However, prior to Australian Electoral Commission approval, Xenophon left politics, and the party withdrew its application and changed its name to Centre Alliance. In 2018, Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff stated that SA-BEST
1960-463: The party, and went on to form the Rex Patrick Team . Centre Alliance is generally perceived as a centrist party. Some prominent party members are former Liberal Party members or staffers. Senator Rex Patrick was a staffer for Liberal Senator David Johnston before joining the party. Federal MP Rebekha Sharkie is also a former member of the Liberal Party and formerly worked as a researcher and staffer for Liberal party figures from 2006. At
2009-667: The primary vote in every election between 1910 and 2019 (including the votes of autonomous state parties). Third parties have only rarely received more than 10% of the vote for the Australian House of Representatives in a federal election, such as the Australian Democrats in the 1990 election and the Australian Greens in 2010 , 2016 , 2019 and 2022 . Additionally, support for Independent politicians in Australia has resulted in major parties having to come to agreements to form government at times, including
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2058-416: The right person". He also stated that he was not considering a run with NXT in the future, rather believed that the NXT candidate was the best person for the job in his electorate. Sharkie's main opponent in Mayo, sitting Liberal member Jamie Briggs said, "I think what it reveals is you just can't trust these independents". Primary vote % ( SA 2016 ) The nascent Nick Xenophon Team ran candidates at
2107-465: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Centre Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Centre_Party&oldid=1244992939 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2156-540: The seat of Sturt held by Christopher Pyne –a major figure in the Liberal Party–indicated that an NXT candidate would have beaten him 38% to 31% in primary vote. This was before Tony Abbott was replaced by Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister following the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot . A January 2016 opinion poll conducted in South Australia by Roy Morgan found that NXT was slightly ahead of
2205-432: The seat of Mayo with 34.19% of the primary vote, and a two-party preferred vote of 55.14%. The Centre Alliance ran only one candidate in the 2022 federal election , Rebekha Sharkie in the seat of Mayo . She was re-elected. Stirling Griff , while remaining with the party, ran as an independent "Group O" candidate for the Senate, in a ticket led by Nick Xenophon . Both were unsuccessful. Rex Patrick , elected to
2254-420: The upper and middle classes supporting the Coalition and the working class supporting Labor. This has been a less important factor since the 1970s and 1980s when the Labor Party gained a significant bloc of middle-class support and the Coalition gained a significant bloc of working-class support. The two-party duopoly has been relatively stable, with the two groupings (Labor and Coalition) gaining at least 70% of
2303-441: Was a double dissolution the Senate electoral quota of 14.3 percent was reduced to 7.7 percent. During the campaign, Xenophon and the NXT were the subject of numerous attacks from both major political parties. This included an attack levelled at his failure to declare a directorship of Adelaide Tower Pty Ltd, which involved his father. Xenophon accused proponents of this attack of a "partisan and personal campaign". Labor requested
2352-429: Was announced as the candidate for Mayo. Kelly Gladigau was announced as the candidate for Barker. Andrea Broadfoot was announced as the candidate for Grey. The SA Senate vote collapsed from 21.8% to 2.6%, and no Centre Alliance senator was elected. Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick kept their Senate seats, because they were not up for re-election. Rebekha Sharkie was the only Centre Alliance candidate elected, retaining
2401-458: Was the only other Country Party, prime minister. He assumed office in August 1941 after the resignation of Robert Menzies and served as prime minister until October of that year. The Liberal and National parties have merged in Queensland and the Northern Territory / South Australia , although the resultant parties are different. The Liberal National Party of Queensland , formed in 2008, is
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