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The Australian Commonwealth Party was formed in Sydney to contest the 1972 federal election, on a platform of wide social and administrative reform. The sole candidate, Max Fabre, sought to stand against William McMahon in the seat of Lowe but his nomination was refused over a deposit technicality. A dramatic eleventh-hour action in the High Court went against Mr Fabre and the party.〔(Fabre v Ley 1972, HCA 65 )〕〔''A New Party Goes into First Gear'', Ideation Pty Limited press release, Sydney, 27 May 1974〕 The party's campaign manifesto was written and authorised by celebrity poet Les Murray whose unabashed departure from the goals and language of conventional politics generated widespread publicity and prefigured the later emergence of visionary, environment-oriented parties like the Australian Democrats and Greens. The manifesto announced: ''"The Australian Commonwealth Party is an entirely new political association, non-authoritarian, non-elitist, bound together by the mutual loyalty and common commitment of members. (party ) represents a rising of sensitivity and a restoration of grace. It seeks to reinstate qualitative values in the world in order to counter and, in the end, overcome the entrenched tyranny of quantity. It is thus the sworn enemy alike of divisive political techniques, of the mass solutions of doctrinaire economics and of rule by threat. As against all these, it espouses the higher pragmatism of vision."''〔''A Focus for Vision'', 1972 Australian Commonwealth Party Manifesto (see above)〕The party went on to make a public declaration that "statecraft, not politics () the proper function of government" and urged that Australia "achieve true sovereignty and secure the constitutional appointment by universal franchise of an independent Australian head of state."〔Advertisement in ''The Australian'', Page 6, Sat. 11 May 1974〕 In a letter to ''The Bulletin'' in 1972, Les Murray wrote: "Australia will be a great nation, and a power for good in the world, when her head of state is a part-Aboriginal and her prime minister a poor man. Or vice versa".〔Alexander Peter F. ''Les Murray: a Life in Progress'', Oxford University Press UK, 2000, p.145〕 Though never formally disbanded, the Australian Commonwealth Party did not contest any other election nor seek party registration under later legislation. Its last public action was a rebuke delivered to prime minister Gough Whitlam in July 1974 over the removal of the name 'Commonwealth' from Australia's paper currency. The open letter, signed by the party's chairman Max Fabre, enquired 'Has (PM ) forgotten that Australia was a Commonwealth when the British Empire was in short pants?'〔Letter dated 9 July to ''The Australian'', ''Australian Financial Review'', ''Bulletin'' and other print media〕 ==1972 Manifesto== ''(click to enlarge each page)'' Image:ACP1.jpg Image:ACP2.jpg Image:ACP3.jpg Image:ACP4.jpg 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australian Commonwealth Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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