Protectionist Party

The Protectionist Party was a political party in Australia that existed from the 1880s until its absorption into the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909. My major concern was the enforcement of a protective tariff policy in order to promote the development of domestic industry.

After the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 she campaigned for greater harmonization between the states. Measures in this sense, for example, were harmonized pension schemes and a uniform track width of the railways. Away from the tariff question the views of the Protectionist Party and the Free Trade Party were often more similar than those of the candidates of the same party.

The elections of 1901 were seen as a plebiscite on the future general economic policies in Australia. The tariff policy was the most important election issue. The protectionists could not last through the " incumbency " the transitional prime minister Edmund Barton achieve a relative majority of votes of the Free Trade Party, were to push through legislation, however, dependent on the support of the lab. It should not change even under his successor, Alfred Deakin ( 1903-04, 1905-08 ).

After the protective tariff policy was enforced, they united due to the increasing popularity of the Labour Party with the now vice baptized in Anti- Socialist Party, former Free Trade Party, and in 1909 on the insistence of the Commonwealth Liberal Party.