Progressive Conservative Party (Australia)


The Progressive Conservative Party was a far right Australian political party that contested the 1980 federal election. Its stated aims included the reintroduction of the White Australia Policy, an end to Asian immigration to Australia, the cessation of foreign aid, and higher tax concessions to non-working mothers. Its candidates included the former independent Western Australian Senator Syd Negus.
The party was established in October 1979 by Gordon Hardy, a Perth company director. Its policies were listed by The Canberra Times as a national referendum on Asian immigration to Australia and a 90 percent cut to foreign aid.
In 1981 the PCP merged with the Australian National Alliance and the Immigration Control Association to form the Progressive Nationalist Party, which claimed a membership of 1,000.