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All for Australia League
PresidentAlexander James Gibson
Founded28 January 1931
Dissolvedearly 1932
Merged intoUnited Australia Party
HeadquartersSydney, New South Wales
Membership (June 1931)130,000[1]
Political positionRight-wing

The All for Australia League was a minor Australian political party that operated in New South Wales in 1931. The party was established in February 1931.[2] It represented an alternative to the existing conservative parties the United Australia Party and the Country Party, and was generally seen as more right-wing than either.[3] Gordon Bennett was prominent in the League.[4] The party declined after 1931. It dissolved in February 1932 when it merged with the Nationalists to establish the New South Wales division of the United Australia Party.[2]

Objectives

Five objectives were announced at the official launch of the league, held at Killara on 12 February 1931:[1]

  1. To create a unity of purpose amongst citizens and organisations to meet the economic and social crises.
  2. To exert constitutional pressure on Governments in support of the following or other necessary measures: (a) Restoration of National Credit, (b) Economy of Governmental administration and expenditure, (c) Balancing of Federal and State budgets.
  3. To set aside conflicting sectional interests for the sake of unity of purpose.
  4. To conjoin the interests of Country and City, that is, all producing and consuming interests.
  5. To bring about the whole hearted cooperation of employer and employee.

Notable members

Former engineering professor Alexander James Gibson was elected president of the league. Other members of the league's provisional executive included:[5]

  • Major-General Gordon Bennett, brother of Alfred Bennett
  • Andrew Craig, treasurer of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce
  • Albert Heath, president of the Sydney and Suburban Timber Merchants' Association
  • Cecil Hoskins, managing director of Australian Iron and Steel
  • Norman Keyser, managing director of General Industries
  • Robert A. Malloch, managing director of Dangar, Gedye & Malloch, meat preservers
  • Sydney Snow, vice-president of the Retail Traders' Association
  • Frederick Walker, managing director of F. J. Walker, meat exporters

Later members of the executive included:[5]

  • Alfred Bennett, manager of radio station 2GB, founder of the Who's for Australia? League, brother of Gordon Bennett
  • Charles M. McDonald, president of the New South Wales Employers' Federation
  • Olof Oberg, timber merchant and president of the anti-communist Sane Democracy League

References

  1. ^ a b Matthews 1969, p. 139.
  2. ^ a b Geoffrey Robinson (2008). "The all for Australia league in New South Wales : a study in political entrepreneurship and hegemony" (PDF). Australian historical studies. 39 (1). Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  3. ^ Carole Ferrier. "A red revolutionist and ranter". Australian National University. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Lodge, A. B. (1993). "Bennett, Henry Gordon (1887 - 1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  5. ^ a b Matthews 1969, p. 138.

Sources

  • Matthews, Trevor (1969). "The All for Australia League". Labour History. 17: 136–147. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)


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