Centre Party (New South Wales) (original) (raw)

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The Centre Party, or the Centre Reform Group, and occasionally referred to as the Centre Movement, was a short-lived extreme-right political party that operated in the Australian state of New South Wales. Founded in December 1933, the party's leader and most prominent figure was Eric Campbell, the leader of the paramilitary New Guard movement. That organisation had been established to oppose what its members perceived as the socialist tendencies of Jack Lang, the Premier of New South Wales, but declined following Lang's dismissal in early 1932. The party, unlike most fascist-oriented parties in Europe, acted as a wing of its more prominent paramilitary arm. The Centre Party contested five seats at the 1935 state election, and its candidates placed second to the United Australia Party (UAP) in two electorates, with almost 20% of the vote. However, it polled poorly in the other seats it contested, and disbanded shortly after the election. The Centre Party is generally seen as the political extension of the remnant of the New Guard, which had decreased in popularity and influence, and, under Campbell's leadership, had become increasingly inclined towards fascism. (en)

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[[#Background and formation (en)

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“But here we are today, without anyone to work for us in whom we have confidence. The U.A.P. has turned out to be a false god, so following the advice of Thomas Carlisle, we are going to throw it away and seek new ones. And this brings us face-to-face with the reality of the problem, which is that Australian democracy is a sordid farce. It is a negation of all it pretends to achieve. Its path, unlike the road to hell, is not even paved with good intentions, it is merely an easy downhill grade to the pestilential waters of communism. It has made the average individual just about as free as a medieval slave. It is politically insane and industrially it is a calamity. We have no quarrel with the ideals of liberal democracy. We applaud and support them. What we say is that a nation cannot thrive on an ideal in direct contradiction to the reality which masquerades as that ideal. The institutions that have been erected by non-practical visionaries are the cause of the failure.” (en)

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(1933) (en)

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Excerpt from Eric Campbell's speech at the founding of the party. (en)

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The Centre Party, or the Centre Reform Group, and occasionally referred to as the Centre Movement, was a short-lived extreme-right political party that operated in the Australian state of New South Wales. Founded in December 1933, the party's leader and most prominent figure was Eric Campbell, the leader of the paramilitary New Guard movement. That organisation had been established to oppose what its members perceived as the socialist tendencies of Jack Lang, the Premier of New South Wales, but declined following Lang's dismissal in early 1932. The party, unlike most fascist-oriented parties in Europe, acted as a wing of its more prominent paramilitary arm. (en)

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