United Australia Party (2019)

The United Australia Party was founded on January 20th, 2019 by twice former Justice of the High Court of AustraliaSim, former Prime Minister, former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and current Companion to the Order of AustraliaSim, BellmanTGM. The UAP is a firmly libertarian party with a strong membership which features many historically significant figures of AustraliaSim.

It merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democratic Party.

In 2020, AussieConservative defected from the Liberal National Party (LNP) to form a party of the same name. After Riley8583 and My13InchDuck left to form the Australia First Party, this UAP and that LNP merged to form the Liberal Party of Australia.

Leadership & Members
The United Australia Party currently has 4 members in its leadership counsel, which consists of the Party Leader, Deputy Leader, Party Whip and Party Officer.

These offices are filled by:

Party Leader - /u/BellmanTGM

Deputy Leader - /u/Manly-Kitten

Party Whip - /u/stranger195

Party Officer - /u/Gredsen

Other prominent members include former Prime Minister Edible_Pie, former Deputy Prime Minister JengaLucile and former Assistant Minister of Rural Affairs woof223.

Ideology
The United Australia Party is a firmly Libertarian party, with hard right economic policy and extreme liberal social ideology. Their most notable policies include progression to abolishing income tax, removal of superannuation tax and the beer and tobacco excises. They are also vocal about legalising all recreational drugs, and committed to not taxing them beyond standard GST rates. They are militarily isolationist, although committed to maintaining international alliances and treaties. The UAP also seek to cut spending on welfare, health and private education, amongst other areas.