Small Business Party

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Small Business Party
LeaderJohn Golawski
Deputy LeaderCam Tinley
Party PresidentJohn Golawski
Ideology Supporting Australian Small Business
Website
smallbusinessparty.net

The Small Business Party (formerly Micro Business Party) is a political party registered in the Australian state of Western Australia. [1]

A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions, and who field candidates for elections, in an attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda.

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

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History

Micro Business Party

An earlier Small Business Party of Western Australia merged into the Micro Business Party (established in 2016) before the 2017 state election. [2]

In the 2017 Western Australian election, the Micro Business Party fielded 46 candidates in the Legislative Assembly (out of 59 electorates) [3] and 14 candidates across the six regions for the Legislative Council. The party received 13,211 first preference votes for Legislative Assembly seats (representing 1% of votes cast), and 7,484 votes for the Legislative Council. [4] [5]

2017 Western Australian state election elections

The 2017 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 11 March 2017 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, including all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council. The eight-and-a-half-year two-term incumbent Liberal–WA National government, led by Premier Colin Barnett, was defeated in a landslide by the Labor opposition, led by Opposition Leader Mark McGowan.

Western Australian Legislative Assembly legislature of the State of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth.

Western Australian Legislative Council upper house of the Legislature of the state of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth.

Name change

The party changed its name to Small Business Party at its May 2018 annual general meeting and the new name was officially recognised by the Western Australian Electoral Commission in October 2018. [6] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Registered Political Parties in WA". Western Australian Electoral Commission . Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. "Micro Business Party: 2017 WA State election advertisement" (PDF). The West Australian 19 January 2017. p. 20. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  3. "Summary of Candidates and Parties Contesting the 2017 WA Election". Antony Green's Election Blog. ABC Australia. 11 February 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  4. "2017 State General Election". Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. "WA Election 2017". Australian Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  6. Party's official website