United Australia Party

In the first three decades of preferential voting, the two parties of the right regularly nominated multiple candidates.

The Country Party nominated multiple candidates 27 times between 1922 and 1949, while the Nationalist and United Australia Parties nominated multiple candidates 36 times.

As the center-right fragmented in the 1940s, preferential voting made it possible for different elements of the center-right to run their own candidates and use preferential voting to avoid a Labor victory.

There were also regular cases of the two right-wing parties running candidates against each other, although the heights of 1919 and 1922 were rarely repeated.

Or is it? God is pissed.

i'm sure there are people who make that argument absolutely all right so we're now going to talk about the united australia party so labor finds itself back in power in 1929 in time for the entire global economy to implode um uh in what is generally regarded as the worst depression in global history so far Labor was led by James Scullin, who most historians will argue is one of the worst prime ministers in Australian history.

I'd argue he had a really difficult task and an almost impossible task, really.

They also weren't helped by the fact they just hadn't been in a while and they were really inexperienced.

And he comes across and becomes the new Prime Minister.

Then Billy Hughes's Australia party rejoined the right and the nationalists who were the largest and most dominant group.

And together they formed a new right-wing party called the United Australia party.

Um, so even though lions had been a labor, right, they put him in charge.