The New Country Party is a minor political party in Australia. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. It emerged out of the internal divisions of the One Nation Party in Queensland and Western Australia in 2003 (in a similar fashion to the City Country Alliance) and was registered by the AEC on 9 January 2004. Not to be confused with the One Nation program of infrastructure works carried out from 1991 to 1996 by the Keating Labor Government Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. The City Country Alliance (1999-2003 was a short lived Australian political party that briefly held six Queensland state seats The Australian Electoral Commission, or the AEC is the federal government agency in charge of organising and supervising federal elections and referendums Two Western Australian state upper house MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry and Frank Hough, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the 2005 WA state election. The Legislative Council, or upper house is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia.
In the leadup to the October 2004 Federal election, there was some suggestion that Queensland independent MP Bob Katter would run on the New Country Party ticket, however, he did not do so. Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October, 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Robert Carl "Bob" Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian federal politician The party ran Senate tickets in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, where it got 0. The Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. 18%, 0. 13% and 0. 16% respectively, [1], and obtained 0. 08% of the vote nationwide in the lower house. The House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers of the Parliament of Australia; it is the Lower house, the Upper house being the Senate
In February 2005, the party contested the Western Australian state election, and gained 0. 31% of the upper house vote statewide, and 0. 11% of the lower house vote. Both sitting members lost their seats to major party candidates. [2]
The party's website no longer appears to exist, but is archived here.
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