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The FREE Australia Party, fully the Freedom Rights Environment Educate Australia Party, is a defunct minor political party in South Australia [1] founded by Paul Kuhn. It opposed SA Labor anti-bikie laws and promotes civil liberties. [2] [3] It ran at the 2010 state election with negligible results. [4] The party contested the 2014 state election again with negligible results.

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The FREE Australia Party is no longer registered. [5]

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References

  1. Registered political parties: ECSA
  2. Bikie party FREE Australia looks to federal election: The Advertiser 30 March 2009
  3. Minor parties, big ambitions: The Advertiser 3 February 2010
  4. ECSA website Archived 2010-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Register of political parties: ECSA

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