The Australian Reform Party was a minor

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n political party that was registered federally from 1997 to 2002. It focused on a variety of issues, most prominently

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, and was associated with the right wing. Although approached by One Nation for preference deals in 1997, the party's leader Ted Drane claimed that One Nation leader

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had destroyed the chance to unite the right through unprofessionalism and

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. The party never received significant totals in elections.

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