Civic Reform Association

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Civic Reform Association
Founded20 January 1920
Dissolvedc. 1991
Ideology Australian conservatism

The Civic Reform Association (CRA), also known as the Civic Reform Movement, the Civic Reform Party or the Citizens' Reform Association, was an Australian ratepayers' organisation and local political party which contested elections for the City of Sydney. [1] [2]

The association was formed by approximately seventy people at the Sydney Town Hall on 20 January 1920. Its aim was to remove the administration of the City of Sydney from the control of the Australian Labor Party. [3]

The following members of the association served in the ensuing years as Lord Mayor of Sydney: David Gilpin [4] 1923–1924; Ernest Marks 1930, Joseph Jackson [5] 1931, Sir Samuel Walder [6] 1932; Sir Alfred Parker 1934–1935; Archibald Howie 1936–1937; Stanley Crick [7] 1940–1942; Reg Bartley 1943–1944 & 1946–1948; William Neville Harding 1945; Sir Emmet McDermott [8] 1969–1972; David Griffin 1972–1973; Sir Nicholas Shehadie 1973–1975; Leo Port 1975–1978; Nelson Meers 1978–1980; and Hugh Dixson 1988-1989 Jeremy Bingham 1989–1991. Parker Henson served as Chairman of the Sydney County Council. [9] Alex Rigby served as president from 1971 until 1973. [10]

Electoral results

Election year# of
overall votes
 % of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–Council control
(term)
1941
12 / 20
Civic Reform majority

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