The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. It was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia (1917–1931) and predecessor to the Liberal Party of Australia (1945). The party governed Australia for much of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies.
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