The Curtin Labor Alliance was a minor

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that was formed between two minor right-wing groups, the

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(CEC) and the

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Municipal Employees' Union, in 2001. The name sparked outrage from the

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both for confusing electors and invoking former Australian Labor

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. The Alliance claimed that Curtin was a

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, and that they represented the views that he would have espoused if he was alive. The Alliance was accused by Labor politicians of

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and

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views, which were denied by the leader of the CEC, Craig Isherwood. It fielded candidates at the 2001 federal election (including

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, who was the Labor member for

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from 1969 to 1975), but achieved only mediocre results. The party was deregistered in 2005 after not contesting the 2004 election (which was contested individually by the CEC).

References

*Hutchison, Geoff (2001)
"The Curtin Labor Alliance sparks outrage"
''The World Today'',

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