The United Australia Party, formerly known as Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party and the Palmer United Party, is an Australian political party formed by mining magnate Clive Palmer in April 2013.
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It was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2017, but revived and re-registered in 2018.
The party fielded candidates in all 150 House of Representatives seats at the September 2013 federal election.
Palmer, the party’s leader, was elected to the Division of Fairfax and it reached a peak of three Senators following the rerun of the Western Australian senate election in 2014.
When the party was revived under its original name in 2018, it was represented by ex-One Nation senator Brian Burston in the federal parliament.
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On 23 November 2021, the United Australia Party announced a preference deal with the Liberal Democrats in the upcoming federal election, where each party would encourage its members to choose the other as their second preference
What does the United Australia Party believe in?
The United Australia Party believes in the most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy – freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom of association.
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