abstract:The Progressive Conservative Party was a far right Australian political party that contested the 1980 federal election. Its stated aims included the reintroduction of the White Australia Policy, an end to Asian immigration to Australia, the cessation of foreign aid, and higher tax concessions to non-working mothers.
His Conservatives are further to the right than the former ProgressiveConservativeParty, which governed Canada on and off until its annihilation in 1993 and which was barely distinguishable from the Liberals.
After a catastrophic defeat in 1993, the ProgressiveConservativeparty (as it was then named) split into two rival parties, allowing the Liberals to win big majorities with just 40% of the vote.