55-656: Young Liberals may refer to: Young Liberals (Australia) Young Liberals Austria Young Liberals of Canada Young Liberals (Germany) Young Liberals of Norway Young Liberals (Switzerland) Young Liberals (UK) , the youth and student organisation of the UK Liberal Democrats English Young Liberals Scottish Young Liberals Welsh Young Liberals National League of Young Liberals ,
110-539: A "Federal President", "Federal Vice-President" and "Young Liberal Federal Executive". The Young Liberal representation on the senior party's Executive was expanded to two positions, while the Movement was also given a seat on the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy. In 1982, the Movement produced a national publication called 'The Young Australian' which was published until 2013. In 2007,
165-581: A "lying fucking cum guzzling slut". In September 2015 a New South Wales Young Liberal Council meeting caused controversy after an alleged altercation occurred. Young Liberal and member of the conservatives Jakov Miljak allegedly grappled Moderate James Camillieri following a debate over the Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, September 2015 . The following day Mr Miljak resigned from his part-time employment with Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells . In April 2017, Young Liberal and President of
220-572: A Hartcher staff member who is also Young Liberal member set up a "black ops" team inspired by the film Fight Club with the intention of destroying political opponents. In 2014, A Liberal Party campaigner who had been a leading member of the Young Liberals in Geelong , Scott Harrison, was revealed to have been a member of Creativity Movement organisation for six years prior to 2010, but had turned his back on those beliefs. He resigned from
275-473: A Young Liberals dinner in Sydney, Alan Jones spoke concerning the death of the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard 's father. Jones said that Mr Gillard had "died of shame to think that his daughter told lies every time she stood for parliament". Jones' speech was secretly recorded by a News Limited journalist. In July 2013, Queensland YLNP President Ben Riley was suspended for a period of six months for swiping
330-539: A burr under my saddle from the left" whereas now they had come to support the agenda of right factional leaders such as David Clarke . In July 2006, Young Liberal Movement was the subject of controversy after the ABC's Lateline program aired footage from the 2005 National Union of Students' conference in Ballarat . The video showed Liberal students chanting "We're racist, we're sexist, we're homophobic". The president of
385-428: A group chat room that was meant for planning the group's campaigning efforts. Several women in the chat complained to NSW Young Liberals president Harry Stutchbury (son of Michael Stutchbury ), who said that the behaviour was unacceptable but took no further action. Liberal Party officials did not learn of the events until 12 months later, via The Sun-Herald, at which point NSW Liberals' state director Chris Stone applied
440-527: A heated club meeting. It was also alleged that he assaulted another male club member from an opposing faction, although the allegation was denied by other witnesses. In February 2019, four members of the NSW Young Liberals were suspended from the party for six months when they approached women on Tinder in order to convince them to vote Liberal, and then shared personal information about the women and made "lewd and derogatory" comments about them in
495-622: A leftie", however, subsequent investigations showed him to be a Liberal Party volunteer and active Young Liberal member. Scott and McGain both declined to comment on the video, which was widely criticised and labelled as racist by the Queensland State Government. McGain was later suspended from his role as party leader, pending further internal investigation from the Liberal Party. The 2020 ACT Election saw an internal ACT Liberal Party investigation revolve around
550-760: A member of the Victorian Legislative Council , joined with Wilfrid Kent Hughes to form the Young Nationalists Organisation. Menzies was its first president. The organisation kept its name when its parent party became part of the UAP. Half of the UAP members elected in the 1932 Victorian state election were Young Nationalists, almost trebling their parliamentary representation. The premier, Sir Stanley Argyle , included three of them in his eight-person cabinet, including Menzies as deputy premier. Later, when Menzies founded
605-498: A pair of RM Williams boots on display at that year's LNP Convention. Riley put on the boots, wore them around and spilt beer on them. The day after Riley offered to pay for the boots, however he was still suspended. In April 2014, during hearings by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales) into the alleged corrupt conduct of MP Chris Hartcher , it was revealed that
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#1732775466676660-543: A socialist at heart. Page's demand finally gave them an excuse to dump Hughes, who was forced to resign in January 1923. Former treasurer Stanley Bruce was chosen as leader, and quickly entered into a coalition with the Country Party. The price, however, was high: five seats for the Country Party in cabinet (out of 11), with Page as treasurer and number-two man in the government. Such demands were unheard of for such
715-470: A video was released on the Young Liberal's Facebook page. The video showed McGain purporting to be interviewing young adults at random during Schoolies week regarding their opinions of Prime Minister Scott Morrison. In one interview McGain is shown laughing as Scott criticised Aboriginal Australians for not being able to "even invent the bloody wheel". Scott described himself in the video as "a bit of
770-410: A witness, 'Kusay was not entirely impartial' and that there were 'concerns about his reliability'. In December 2019, Young LNP Treasurer Oscar Green was disciplined after a photo surfaced of him with campaign corflutes belonging to rival parties. Senior Labor sources identified the corflutes as those that went missing during the state campaign. Though Green denied stealing the signs, his membership
825-556: A young party in a Westminster system. However, Bruce agreed to the terms rather than force another election. This was the start of the traditional coalition of non-Labor parties . With the ouster of Hughes, the Nationalists took on a decidedly more conservative hue. Despite initial concerns that Australians wouldn't readily support the aloof Bruce, the Nationalist-Country Coalition won a great victory in
880-563: Is an offence the ACT Liberal Party constitution deems worthy of expulsion. The investigation began in November 2020 and concluded with the resignation of Ben Dennehy and a second ACT Young Liberal who was not named in media sources. Evidence leading to Dennehy's resignation included the discovery of video footage of Ben Dennehy 'getting out of his car and slashing Ms Burch's corflutes'. It has been noted that this may not have been
935-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Young Liberals (Australia) The Young Liberal Movement of Australia , commonly referred to as the Young Liberals , is the youth movement of the Liberal Party of Australia representing members aged 16 to 31. It is organised as a federation with each state and territory division responsible for their own campaigns, policy platform and strategic direction and interact federally via
990-542: Is governed by its own rules and constitution with each undertaking different methods for the election of their President, executive, and delegates. The Federal Movement has two elected officers; the President and the Vice-President who are supported by an Executive made up of State and Territory Young Liberal Presidents and appointed Federal Officers. The Federal President and Federal Vice-President are members of
1045-568: The International Young Democrat Union . The Young Liberal Movement was formed on 12 December 1945 following the official inauguration of the Liberal Party on 31 October of the same year. The creation of the Movement is attributed to Sir Robert Menzies who when organising meetings to discuss the creating of the Liberal Party in 1944 invited the Young Nationalists to undertake a prominent role within
1100-607: The National Party , was an Australian political party. It was formed in February 1917 from a merger between the Liberal Party and the National Labor Party , the latter formed by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his supporters after the 1916 Labor Party split over World War I conscription . The Nationalist Party was established as a 'united' non-Labor opposition that had remained a political trend once
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#17327754666761210-472: The Country Party. It was obvious that a confidence-and-supply agreement would not be enough to keep the Nationalists in office. However, the Country Party had never liked Hughes' rural policy, and its leader Earle Page let it be known that he would not serve under him. Several of the more conservative elements of the Nationalist Party had only tolerated Hughes after the war, suspecting he was still
1265-564: The Federal Young Liberal Executive. The Movement serves as a recruiting platform for the Liberal Party, and plays a significant role within the volunteer base of the party. The Movement undertakes a notable management role within the Liberal Party. Young Liberal Presidents serve on the executive of their respective State and Territory divisions, while the Federal President and Federal Vice-President of
1320-561: The Inquiry into Academic Freedom - Parliament of Australia terms of reference. Others described the campaign as a "witch hunt" or McCarthyism , and as an attack on the professionalism of academics. In response to Make Education Fair, the National Tertiary Education Union said "there is no evidence of widespread left-wing bias" and launched its own campaign entitled "Academic Freedom Watch". The President of
1375-651: The Labor party established itself in federal politics. The party was in government (from 1923 in coalition with the Country Party ) until electoral defeat in 1929. From that time it was the main opposition to the Labor Party until it merged with pro- Joseph Lyons Labor defectors to form the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931. The party is a direct ancestor of the Liberal Party of Australia ,
1430-547: The Liberal Party after anti-Semitic articles written by him emerged, including airing a theory that the Port Arthur massacre was master-minded by Jews, as well as a photo of him gesturing with a Nazi salute in front of a swastika . In August 2014, Young Liberal students from Melbourne University were reported to have been posting misogynistic, crude and racist comments on their Facebook page. One comment in particular referred to, 75-year-old academic, Germaine Greer as
1485-540: The Liberal Party in New South Wales had been used "as the foot soldiers in factional warfare in which control goes to the faction which has the most branches." Former federal Liberal leader John Hewson expressed concern that in more recent times, the right faction had taken control of the Young Liberals in New South Wales in an "extreme right takeover", that "in my day as leader the Young Liberals were
1540-494: The Melbourne University Liberal Club, Xavier Boffa was accused of telling a female member of the club that she was not invited to an event because 'a couple of the guys were uncomfortable about inviting a chick'. In October 2017, the same woman made a complaint to police that Mr Boffa had screamed that she was "disgraceful" and "shameful" while demanding that she get out of his personal space after
1595-548: The Movement serve on the Federal Liberal Executive. Former Federal Presidents include former Father of the Australian House of Representatives and NSW Liberals State President Philip Ruddock , former Chief Economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Saul Eslake , Businessman Mark Birrell , and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne . The organisation is a founding member of
1650-456: The NTEU dismissed the accusation that academics are running their own agendas in the classroom as "nonsense". New South Wales Greens politician John Kaye said "any school or university educator who expresses an opinion would be at risk from the young Liberals plan to create a McCarthy-ist environment on campuses and schools" Since 2016, the Young Liberals have taken a strong position against
1705-487: The Nationalists won a huge electoral victory , and formed what was at the time the biggest majority government since Federation . The size of the landslide was magnified by the large number of Labor MPs who followed Hughes into the Nationalist Party. At this election Hughes abandoned his working-class division of West Sydney , and was elected for Bendigo in Victoria. He had promised to resign if his Government did not win
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1760-685: The New South Wales Young Liberals released a statement condemning the outbursts. During a conference for Liberals in July 2008 in Canberra , about 40 university students from the Australian Liberal Students' Federation - some of them Young Liberals, were thrown out and banned from a youth hostel after an all night drinking rampage and disruptive behaviour, including some of them being caught having sex in
1815-1042: The QLD division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the QLD National Party merged to become the Liberal National Party of Queensland . As part of this merger process the Queensland Young Liberals and the Queensland Young Nationals were merged to become the Young Liberal National Party (Young LNP). The Young LNP is effectively the Queensland division of both the federal Young Liberals and the Federal Young Nationals. Each Young Liberal State and Territory division
1870-770: The Student Services and Amenities Fee, including publishing a comprehensive report on the subject. In 2005, the Young Liberals in Melbourne attracted media attention for their antisocial behaviour at social functions and accusations of rivalry between the Australian Liberal Students' Federation and the Young Liberal movement. On 17 July 2006, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's Four Corners program broadcast allegations that factional leaders within
1925-472: The UAP was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as leader rather than Latham. The UAP replaced the Nationalists as the main non-Labor party. The Western Australian branch retained the Nationalist name after the formation of the UAP, and did so until it and most of the major non-Labor parties were folded into the present-day Liberal Party of Australia . Around 1929, Robert Menzies , then
1980-437: The Young Liberal National Party organised an event via Facebook to celebrate the ill health of former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam . The event, which 17 members of the Young Liberal National Party are reported to have subsequently attended, aimed to celebrate that "The old man is old and nearly dead, he got sacked, and he is just shit. So lets [ sic ] celebrate and be happy". In September 2012, during
2035-543: The Young Liberals launched a campaign titled Make Education Fair that alleged there was bias in the educational system. The Young Liberals were motivated by comments by former Prime Minister John Howard who said "The left-liberal grip on educational institutions and large, though not all, sections of the media remains intense". In response to the campaign, the Senate announced an Inquiry into Academic Freedom in June 2008 with
2090-456: The caucus then passed a motion of no confidence in the leadership, effectively expelling Hughes and his allies. Hughes and his followers rebranded themselves as the " National Labor Party ", and continued in office as a minority government with support from Cook and his Commonwealth Liberal Party . With the war dragging on, Hughes began negotiations with Cook to turn their confidence-and-supply agreement into formal party unity. That February, at
2145-513: The federal election of 1925 . It was re-elected in 1928 , though with a significantly reduced mandate. However, only a year later, Hughes led a group of backbenchers to cross the floor on a vote on Bruce's plans to reform the industrial arbitration system. In the subsequent election the Coalition was heavily defeated, suffering what was at the time the second-worst defeat of a sitting government since federation. Bruce even lost his own seat, and
2200-515: The first instance in which Ben Dennehy has vandalized campaign material. 2019 independent ACT Senate candidate Anthony Pesec commented on social media that Ben Dennehy was 'ripping corflutes down all over town' during the 2019 election. In 2022, It was reported a former Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous was linked to the National Socialist Network . Nationalist Party (Australia) The Nationalist Party , also known as
2255-409: The hostel. In April 2010, Nick Sowden, a Young Liberal National party member from Queensland, likened US President Barack Obama to a monkey on his Twitter account. After a backlash, Sowden responded by saying that it was a poor attempt at irony that had been taken out of context. As a result of the comments, he was expelled from the party. Further controversy arose in June, 2010, when a member of
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2310-723: The main centre-right party in Australia . In October 1915, the Australian prime minister, Andrew Fisher of the Australian Labor Party , retired; Billy Hughes was chosen unanimously by the Labor caucus to succeed him. Hughes was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War I , and after a visit to Britain in 1916, where the Military Service Act 1916 had been passed earlier in
2365-661: The new party. The formation of the movement at a meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall attracted 750 people. While Young Liberal branches and divisional organisations existed within each State and Territory Division since 1945 the Federal Young Liberal Movement wasn't founded until 1966 following a motion at the Federal Council of the Liberal Party. The first meeting of the new national movement took place on 4 March 1967. By 1968, it
2420-470: The power to conscript. A second plebiscite on conscription was held in December 1917, but the proposition was again defeated, this time by a wider margin. Hughes, after receiving a vote of no confidence in his leadership by his party, resigned as prime minister. However, with no alternative candidates available, Ferguson used his reserve power to immediately re-commission Hughes as prime minister. Hughes
2475-766: The powerful Liberal Party Federal Executive which also includes the Prime Minister and other senior Liberal Party figures. List of federal presidents of the Young Liberals: In 2005, the Howard government introduced legislation to repeal compulsory student unionism in Australia following an effective campaign run by the Young Liberal Movement, notably led by its then Federal President, now Federal MP, Alex Hawke . In February 2008,
2530-493: The proposition was narrowly defeated. Daniel Mannix , the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne , was his main opponent on the conscription issue. The defeat did not deter Hughes, who continued to vigorously argue in favour of conscription. This produced a deep and bitter split within the Australian public, as well as within his own party. The extent to which he engineered this split has been hotly debated ever since, and
2585-501: The suspension. In July 2019, former Australian Liberal Students Federation past president Xavier Boffa was accused by Melbourne University Liberal Club member Benedict Kusay of having allegedly glassed him at a bar in Adelaide. Although Kusay sought Boffa's expulsion from the Liberal Party, no disciplinary action was taken. Boffa was subsequently found not guilty of assaulting Kusay, with Adelaide Magistrate Simon Smart finding that, as
2640-472: The then ACT Young Liberal President Ben Dennehy for the destruction of Kurrajong MLA , Candice Burch 's, campaign corfultes. It has been asserted that the ACT electoral system of Hare-Clark lends itself to internal party fights. The victim of these attacks, Candice Burch, was battling to maintain the fifth Kurrajong seat, however was unsuccessful. Within the ACT Liberal Party bringing the party into disrepute
2695-459: The urging of the governor-general, Sir Robert Munro Ferguson , the two groups formally merged to form the Nationalist Party, with Hughes as leader and Cook as deputy leader. The new party was dominated by former Liberals, and as such was basically an upper- and middle-class party. However, the presence of many former Labor men—many of whom had been early leaders in that party—allowed the Nationalists to project an image of national unity. In May 1917,
2750-547: The year, he became convinced that conscription was necessary if Australia was to sustain its contribution to the war effort. A majority of his party, most notably Roman Catholics and trade union representatives, was opposed to this, especially given the British government's reprisals against the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. In October, Hughes held a plebiscite to try to gain approval for conscription, but
2805-557: Was decided that the Young Liberals should hold their own annual National Conventions – a tradition that continues. The 1974 Federal Council of the Liberal Party agreed to a proposal for the Young Liberals' senior positions to be elected by a Young Liberal Federal Council, consisting of 6 delegates per Division (and held concurrently with the National Convention at which all Young Liberals were eligible to attend). The senior positions were restructured and renamed, resulting in
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#17327754666762860-567: Was even at the time regarded as ironic by many in the Labor movement, given Hughes' violent hostility to earlier Labor dissidents like Joseph Cook . On 15 September 1916, the New South Wales executive of the Political Labour League (the Labor Party organisation at the time) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party. When the parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions took place until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members. The remaining 43 members of
2915-425: Was succeeded as leader by former attorney-general John Latham . The Nationalists were never a real force in Australian politics again. The party had spent its entire 12-year existence in government, and was ill-prepared for a role in opposition. In 1931, following negotiations with a group of Labor Party defectors led by Joseph Lyons , the Nationalist Party was absorbed into the new United Australia Party . Although
2970-576: Was suspended as a result of the discovery. At the same time the LNP were also responding to a separate incident involving Green, whereby he posted on social media a video of himself playing with what looked like a 'wooden penis'. However, in regards to the video, the party saw no grounds for disciplinary action. In December 2019, Chairman of the Gold Coast Young LNP Barclay McGain and member Jake Scott faced controversy after
3025-470: Was thus able to remain in office while having kept his promise to resign. Hughes and the Nationalists were reelected almost as easily in 1919 . They governed on their own until the elections of 1922 , when the newly emerged Country Party gained the balance of power in the House of Representatives . The Nationalists had come up 12 seats short of a majority, and could only realistically hope for support from
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