Commonwealth Party of Australia

The Commonwealth Party of Australia, more commonly known as the Commonwealth Party, is a centre to centre-right political party that split from the Liberal Party of Australia in September 2021. The party is led by acting leader Jordology505, its deputy leader is currently vacant and its chairman is Adiaus.

Formation and Liberal Party split
On September 14, Liberal Party member and former Prime Minister Riley8583 successfully spilled Liberal Party leader and moderate 12MaxWild for the party leadership. After the spill, rumours circulated that 12MaxWild was forming a new party, which was fuelled by Riley's past anti-lockdown and anti-vax comments. Liberal Party President and fellow moderate, Russian Hacker, ran against Riley8583, declaring that he would "reinforce the party's centre-right values". Russian Hacker lost the spill 6-7, leading to further speculation about a party split, which Russian Hacker denied in a statement.

In the following days, many journalists reported on this speculation, with some saying that a 'New Liberals' project was emerging and that "numerous people were involved in the creation of a new party". Tim Schenectady from Pitchfork News released a press piece where an anonymous source told him that "the [New Liberal] project is basically ready to go. We have the numbers to cripple the Liberal Party," adding that "Riley's hostile takeover of the party is essentially a coup."

On 23 September, 12MaxWild officially announced the formation of the Commonwealth Party in a press statement. The following day, former Liberal Party leader Russian Hacker announced his intention to join the Commonwealth Party, where he explained his reasoning in a special piece for the Commonwealth Times, claiming that he could "no longer work with an insensitive leadership group who treats you with so much disrespect", while also revealing that Liberal Party Deputy Leader and Riley8583 supporter Winston_Wilhelmus had called him an "autistic child" during Shadow Cabinet discussions. Other high-profile figures joined the party after the announcement, including former Deputy Prime Ministers GHagrid and tbyrn21 and Liberal senator Chi. Former UDP Prime Minster BloodyChrome announced his intention to leave the High Court and join the party a few weeks later.

Cookie_Monster867 replaces 12MaxWild
12MaxWild suffered a rake-related injury on 9 February 2023, leaving him hospitalised until 8 August. In light of the incident, Deputy Leader Cookie_Monster867 replaced 12MaxWild as interim party Leader, with a vote subsequently confirming him by the end of the week.

May 2023 Federal Election
On May 20 2023, a double dissolution federal election was held. The Australian federal election, May 2023 resulted in the CPA Opposition being reduced to 2 House seats, Party Leader CookieMonster (CM) and Deputy Leader Jordology. around 40 seconds after the ANCAP party was declared the winner and the next government, CM announced he was resigning as leader of the CPA and was leaving the party. Jordology, at that point the CPA's only House member, became the interim leader.

The Jordology505 Leadership
On the 21st of May, following his election as CPA party leader, Jordology505 attempted to merge the CPA with the Socialist Party of Australia. As per the CPA constitution, he initiated a party vote to decide whether this should happen. While a majority of party members voted to approve the merge, the NEC did not approve the merge unanimously, meaning the vote to merge was not successful. In an attempt to create a more open and progressive NEC that would approve the merge, he then initiated a vote to remove Russian Hacker from the NEC, who was the only confirmed right--wing member of the NEC. It then became clear to Jordology that even if the vote was successful, the NEC would not be able to recruit the required 6 members for successful operation of the whole party leadership. Following these unsuccessful votes, after less than 6 hours as the elected CPA party leader, he resigned as Leader and left the party.