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Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold

By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.

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