Motorists Party | |
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| Leader | Jeffrey Hodges |
| Headquarters | Flaxton, Queensland, Australia |
| Ideology | Single-issue politics State ownership [1] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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Motorists Party, formerly the Consumer Rights & No-Tolls Party, [2] is a Queensland based political party. It has been registered in Queensland since 2015.
The Consumer Rights & No-Tolls Party has been registered with the Electoral Commission Queensland for state and local government elections since 23 October 2015, [3] and Jeffrey Hodges stood for Mayor of Brisbane in the 2016 Brisbane City Council Mayoral election on 19 March 2016, [4] receiving 12,600 first preference votes (2.11%). [5]
The Consumer Rights party which was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 7 March 2016 [6] and deregistered on 9 May 2018. [7] Hodges was the only candidate endorsed by the party for the 2016 federal election, for the House of Representatives seat of Rankin. [8]
On 20 June 2017, the party changed its name on the Queensland party register to Civil Liberties, Consumer Rights, No-Tolls and ran eight candidates at the 2017 Queensland state election. [9]
On 7 February 2018, the Australian Electoral Commission issued a notice that it was considering deregistering the party on the grounds that it had ceased to have at least 500 members. [10] While the notice about deregistration was still on the Electoral Commission website, a new notice was posted on 7 May 2018 reflecting an application to enter a logo, [11] however, the next day the AEC confirmed the party had been deregistered. [7] The secretary of the party appealed the deregistration decision however the three person Electoral Commission affirmed the decision to deregister on 21 August 2018. [12]
The party remained registered in Queensland. [13] The party was renamed the Motorist Party in 2019. [2]
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