It's My Party Trivia Quiz

Answer: Australian Labor Party

Julia Gillard was born in Wales and migrated to Australia with her family at the age of four. She joined the Australian Labor Party in her second year of university and after working as an industrial lawyer entered federal parliament in 1998 as the new Member for Lalor.

Gillard became Deputy Prime Minister when Labor swept John Howard's Coalition government from power in November 2007. Less than three years later she successfully challenged Prime Minister Rudd for the party leadership and became Australia's first female Prime Minister.

Answer: National Party

Sir Joh held the position of Premier of Queensland between 1968 and 1987, a period of 19 years. At the end of his tenure he launched an abortive campaign for the Prime Ministership that divided the Liberal-National party coalition.

In the years since Sir Joh's exit from public life his government gained a reputation for gross corruption, with several senior members ending up in jail.

Answer: Liberal Party of Australia

The UAP lost to John Curtin's Labor Party in the landslide wartime election of 1943, and soon afterwards disaffected members looked to Menzies to lead a new conservative alliance. Menzies had built up support among Australia's middle class over a series of radio broadcasts in which he described them as the backbone of the nation, ignored by the major parties.

The new Liberal Party contested the 1946 election against Labor and lost, although Labor's margin of victory was narrower than 3 years earlier. By 1949 Menzies' Liberal Party had secured enough support to win government, which it held until 1972.

Answer: Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Hanson claimed that government policies favoured immigrants and Indigenous Australians at the expense of Anglo-Saxon citizens, causing social division. One Nation's platform included opposition to multiculturalism, a dramatic reduction in immigration, especially from Asian countries, and elimination of policies in the Indigenous Affairs portfolio. On the economic front, One Nation opposed globalisation and advocated protectionist measures including restoring import tariffs.

Answer: Family First

Family First was established in 2001 as a socially conservative minor party. It first contested a national election in 2004, in which it received 1.88% of the total Senate vote in Victoria. However, through a complicated set of preference deals Family First managed to receive the 14.3% quota necessary to secure a seat.

Family First did not receive sufficient votes to elect anyone in the 2007 or 2010 federal elections so the party lost representation in the Australian parliament when Steve Fielding's term expired in 2011.

Answer: Australian Greens

Bob Brown was a medical doctor before becoming involved in politics on a professional basis, and was an active environmentalist from his 20s. As director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society he led the campaign to protect the Franklin River valley against a proposed hydroelectric dam. Brown's participation in a mass protest landed him in prison for 9 days; as soon as he was released he became a member of the Tasmanian parliament.

The Australian Greens officially formed in 1992. The following year Brown resigned from state parliament, and in 1996 he was elected to the Australian Senate as the Greens' first representative. The party traditionally had no formal leader, until in 2005 its members elected Brown unopposed. He retired in 2012.

Answer: Australian Democrats

Don Chipp coined the Democrats' long-standing slogan "Keep the bastards honest", which referred to their aim to provide accountability to the major political parties. The party advocated direct democracy and decided policies through ballots of all of its members, rather than delegating decisions to a small power base.

Answer: Protectionist Party

The Protectionist Part existed formally between 1889 and 1909, with a primary focus on advocating tariffs to support Australian industry and boost employment. In the first parliament after Federation no single party held a majority of seats, so the Protectionists, led by Barton, governed with the support of the Australian Labor Party.

The Protectionist Party of which Barton was a member is not related to the far right, white nationalist Australian Protectionist Party registered in the early 21st century.

Answer: Bob Katter

Bob Katter was elected to the House of Representatives as the Member for Kennedy in 1993, after serving almost two decades in the Queensland legislature. Originally a member of the National Party, he resigned the party in 2001 and contested (and won) subsequent elections as an independent.

Katter's Australian Party advocated socially conservative policies, opposition to privatisation and deregulation, and government support for the agriculture industry.

Answer: Democratic Labor Party

Bartholomew Augustine "Bob" Santamaria was a devout Catholic. During the Second World War he founded the anti-Communist Catholic Social Studies Movement, which sought to oppose communist ideas, especially in trade unions.

Members of the movement, known as "Groupers", managed to take control of many unions and in doing so created a great deal of internal conflict within the Labor Party, which had a significant left wing faction. After extended public criticism of the Labor leadership and Labor's defeat at the 1954 federal election, Santamaria's supporters were expelled from the party. They went on to form the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), which is credited with keeping the Labor Party out of power for nearly two decades.