National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia (English National Party of Australia, NPA) is a conservative party in Australia. It occurs also in the public ( non- official ) name of the National (English The Nationals ) in appearance.

It was founded in 1920 as an association of regional small rural - rural parties and ranchers as the Country Party. The ranchers founded and funded the party and expressed it in a conservative direction. In 1975 it changed its name first in National Country Party in 1982 she finally took the official name today. Your campaigns she leads since 2003 under the name of The Nationals.

Their social base it has still mainly in the rural population away from the big cities. In contrast to the Liberal Party of Australia, it represents more welfare state positions, even though she distances herself from the Australian Labor Party.

She participates as a junior partner to traditional formed by the Liberal Party governments. She was also involved in the Conservative government of John Howard from 1996 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2013 was in opposition. After the parliamentary election in 2013, it participated in the bourgeois coalition government led by Tony Abbott.

Current party leader is Warren Truss.

In mid-2008, the offshoot of the National Party and the Liberal Party meeting in the Australian state of Queensland for the Liberal National Party.