The Liberal Reform Party was an Australian political party, active in New South Wales state politics and was aligned with the federal Free Trade Party. It emerged after federation in 1901, which spurred the development of political parties in states which had previously been non-partisan. With the arrival of the Progressive Party at approximately the same time, it created a two-party system that characterised the first decade of the twentieth century in the state. [1] Although at federal level the Free Trade Party was succeeded by the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909, the Liberal Reform Party remained the state anti-Labor party until the formation of the Nationalist Party of Australia in 1917.
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