Nationalist Party of Australia

**Nationalist Party of Australia**
Nationalist Party of Australia
Leader	Billy Hughes, Stanley Bruce, John Latham
Founded	1917
Dissolved	1931
Preceded by	Commonwealth Liberal Party; National Labor Party
Succeeded by	United Australia Party
Ideology	Conservatism; Nationalism
Political position	Centre-right
	Politics of Australia; Political parties;

Billy Hughes, Nationalist Prime Minister of Australia 1915-1923

Stanley Bruce, Nationalist Prime Minister of Australia 1923-1929

The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It began on 17 February 1917 when the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party (NLP) joined together. The Nationalist Party held government until 1929. It was the major opposition to the Labor party. In 1931 it joined with a group who left the Labor Party led by Joseph Lyons and became the United Australia Party. This was the basis of the Liberal Party of Australia which began in 1944.