Connections To Political Parties
In the early 1970s, the League attempted to gain control of the National Party of Australia, encouraging members to join the party in sufficient numbers to take control, a tactic known as entryism. Doug Anthony, who had recently become the National's leader, led an effort to defend the Party from the League by recruiting people who would vote against League candidates. After a struggle lasting several years, Anthony's forces prevailed. An ironic consequence of this struggle was that the National Party had more members than either of the Labor or Liberal parties, despite always getting a fraction of the votes they did. This fact became much more widely known than the reason for it, both sides having keeping the struggle out of the media.
Many years later various League members offered support to the One Nation party.
Former Western Australian Labor MP, founder of the Australia First Party and later One Nation member Graeme Campbell was associated with the League at the same time as he was a member of One Nation and Australia First. Mr Campbell stated that "Australia First has no association with the League. It's me with the association."
Former treasurer Peter Costello stated that One Nation's policy of a state bank which would issue low-interest loans was directly taken from the ALOR, and that "the League of Rights is driving its policy in relation to banking and money"
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