The One Australia Party was a minor Australian

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that was registered on 19 December 1995 and deregistered on 31 May 1999. It contested the 1996 federal election without success. Many of its candidates were drawn from the defunct Confederate Action Party.

Ideology

The One Australia Party was a conservative organisation. The politics of One Australia were based on

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and

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. One Australia has been accused of holding

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as one of its key ideologies, along with those mentioned above. The agenda of the One Australia Party was said to be “openly racist". Dr. Sev Ozdowski cites One Nation founder

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’s maiden speech to parliament to support the claim that One Australia held anti-Asian sentiments. R. J. B. Bosworth notes that “at least some” of the Party's backers held

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and anti-Aboriginal sentiments.

Federal parliament

References

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