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| Leader | Eric Campbell |
| Founder | Eric Campbell |
| Founded | 4 December 1933 |
| Dissolved | c. 1935 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Newspaper | • New Guard • Liberty |
| Paramilitary wing | New Guard |
| Membership (1933) | c. 15,000[citation needed] |
| Ideology | Australian fascism[1] |
| Political position | Far-right[4] |
| Religion | Protestantism[citation needed] |
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| Colours | Black[citation needed] |
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| Senate | 0 / 36 |
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The Centre Party, or the Centre Reform Group,[7] and occasionally referred to as the Centre Movement, was a short-lived extreme-right political party that operated in the Australian state of New South Wales. Founded in December 1933, the party's leader and most prominent figure was Eric Campbell, the leader of the paramilitary New Guard movement. That organisation had been established to oppose what its members perceived as the socialist tendencies of Jack Lang, the Premier of New South Wales, but declined following Lang's dismissal in early 1932. The party, unlike most fascist-oriented parties in Europe, acted as a wing of its more prominent paramilitary arm.
The Centre Party contested five seats at the 1935 state election, and its candidates placed second to the United Australia Party (UAP) in two electorates, with almost 20% of the vote. However, it polled poorly in the other seats it contested, and disbanded shortly after the election. The Centre Party is generally seen as the political extension of the remnant of the New Guard, which had decreased in popularity and influence, and, under Campbell's leadership, had become increasingly inclined towards fascism.
- ^ Cunningham 2012; Moore 2011; Cresciani 1980, p. 39.
- ^ a b c Campbell, Eric (1934). The New Road. Briton Publishing Limited.
- ^ Cunningham 2012.
- ^ a b Moore, Andrew (1995). The Right Road?: A History of Right-wing Politics in Australia. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Cunningham, Matthew (April 2022). Mobilising the Masses: Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression. ANU Press. p. 133. doi:10.22459/MM.2022. ISBN 978-1760465100.
- ^ Moore 2011, p. 197.
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