Child Protection Party

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Child Protection Party
AbbreviationCPP
Leader Tony Tonkin
PresidentTony Tonkin
General SecretaryAvery Hilditch
FounderTony Tonkin
Founded15 January 2015;7 years ago (2015-01-15)
HeadquartersHillbank South Australia
Ideology Child protection advocacy
SloganProducing better outcomes for all children and their families
Website
www.childprotection.party

The Child Protection Party is a registered minor political party in South Australia [1] led by Tony Tonkin. Its platform is based around child protection. [2]

The party unsuccessfully ran 2 upper house candidates at the 2018 state election with around 1.5% of the statewide vote. [3]

The party unsuccessfully ran 1 lower house candidate in the Federal election of June 2019. [4] The party was deregistered at a federal level on the 30th of June 2021. [5]

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References

  1. Registered political parties: ECSA
  2. Policies: childprotection.party
  3. "2018 Legislative Council results: ECSA". Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  4. 2019 House of Representative results for the division of Sturt: AEC
  5. "Notice of deregistration Child Protection Party" (PDF).