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Liberals for Forests
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Liberals for Forests | |
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| Abbreviation | LFF |
| Founder | Keith Woollard |
| Founded | 3 July 1999 |
| Registered | 1 May 2001 |
| Dissolved | 2008 |
| Ideology | Green liberalism |
| Western Australian Legislative Assembly | 1 / 57 (2001−2008)
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| Albany City Council | 1 / 12 (2001)
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Liberals for Forests was an Australian political minor party. It contested both state and federal elections between 2001 and 2008, but only ever achieved one elected representative – Janet Woollard in Western Australia. It never achieved representation at the federal level.[1]
The party was founded in 1999 by Dr Keith Woollard, husband of Janet Woollard and an ex-AMA president.[2][3] Janet successfully contested a seat at the 2001 state election, and was re-elected in 2005 and again in 2008 as an Independent Liberal.
The party generally professed itself to be ideologically aligned with the centre-right sympathies of the Liberal Party, but was aligned with Labor in certain states such as NSW but with a greater regard to environmentalism.[4]
Despite its low profile, the party gained a respectable proportion of the primary senate vote in some states. For example, in the 2004 election it received only a few hundred votes less than the Australian Democrats in Victoria.
- ^ The Nationals: The Progressive, Country, and National Party 186287526X Paul Davey – 2006 "A group calling themselves Liberals for Forests fielded a candidate, as they did in six other House of Representatives seats. They produced a how-to-vote card on election day, which the Liberal and National parties argued was misleading to.."
- ^ "Dr Keith Woollard today launched in Kings Park a new political party called Liberals for Forests of which he is the President". westpix.
- ^ Bolt, Cathy (4 August 1999). "New greenie spits chips". Australian Financial Review.
- ^ Worth, David (2004). "Reconciliation in the forest? An exploration of the conflict over the logging of native forests in the south west of Western Australia". Commons Social Change Library.
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