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It all started when the Liberal Party of Australia (the old liberals) decided to challenge the name of our party \u2013 The New Liberals<\/span><\/a>. They claimed that we should not be registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (the AEC) because our name on the ballot paper would cause confusion amongst voters. After some vigorous litigation they lost that claim. And we were registered<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n The AEC said, as it had done with similar challenges to Liberals for Forests and Liberal Democrats, that the Australian voting public were not as stupid as the old liberals claimed, and would not be so easily confused. Most don\u2019t understand that very few people join political parties in this country \u2013 even the old Liberals have only 15,000 members after all these years. So for a new or emerging party to suddenly have to find an additional 1000 members (and they were only allowed three months to do so) was tantamount to simply ordering its deregistration.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ALP\/LNP want to disenfranchise First Nation people
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\nIn particular the idea that one could be confused between Liberals and New Liberals was about as silly as saying that a person who wanted to travel to York might travel to New York by mistake. The AEC also relied on the decisions of three Federal Court Judges in Woollard\u2019s Case who said, that a party like the old Liberals cannot take a word of generic political usage like \u201cliberal\u201d, put it in a box and exercise property rights over it. The judges said that this would be profoundly undemocratic.
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\nTo counter this decision the old Liberals recently introduced a piece of legislation (Electoral Legislation Amendment (Party Registration Integrity) Bill 2021)<\/a> designed to overcome the decision of the AEC in our case, and at the same time to wipe out 30 or 40 minor or emerging parties. The legislation had two parts which would both operate retrospectively. The first was the requirement that a registered party, in order to maintain its registration, needed to increase its membership from at least 500 to at least 1500 members.<\/span><\/p>\n
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