Australian Liberty Alliance

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| name = Australian Liberty Alliance

Yellow Vest Australia (2019–2020)

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| abbreviation = {{hlist|ALA|YVA}}

| leader1_title = President

| leader1_name = Debbie Robinson

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| founded = {{start date and age|2015|07|28|df=y}}{{efn|Founded in July 2015,{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/24/reclaim-australia-concerned-mums-and-dads-or-a-trojan-horse-for-extremists |title=Reclaim Australia: 'concerned mums and dads' or a Trojan horse for extremists? |last=Robertson |first=Joshua |date=24 July 2015 |work=The Guardian |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704144036/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/24/reclaim-australia-concerned-mums-and-dads-or-a-trojan-horse-for-extremists |url-status=live }} the party was formally re-named on 7 April 2019, {{ayd|7 April 2019|18 May 2019}} before the 2019 federal election.{{cite web |url=https://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/2019/australian-liberty-alliance-notice.pdf |title=Change of party name, abbreviation and logo – Australian Liberty Alliance |last= |first= |date= |website=aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=9 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709004337/https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/2019/australian-liberty-alliance-notice.pdf |url-status=live }}

| registered = 28 July 2015{{cite web |url=https://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/2015/5896a.htm |title=Notice under s.133(1A) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 |last= |first= |date=29 July 2015 |website= |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=2 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902083822/https://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/2015/5896a.htm |url-status=live }}}}

| dissolved = {{end date and age|2020|09|4|df=y}}

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| headquarters = South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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| membership_year = 2016

| membership = 2,000{{cite news |last=Bourke |first=Latika |date=7 April 2016 |title=Australian Liberty Alliance, the anti-Islam, Donald Trump-style party, claims major growth |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-liberty-alliance-the-antiislam-donald-trumpstyle-party-claims-major-growth-20160406-go08lq.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |location= |access-date=}}

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Anti-Islam{{cite news |last=Day |first=Lauren |date=21 October 2015 |title=Australian Liberty Alliance: Geert Wilders unveils Senate candidates amid warnings over 'blatant racism' |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amid-racism-fear/6874336 |work=ABC News |location= |access-date= |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001185618/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amidro-racism-fear/6874336 |url-status=live }}
Australian nationalism{{cite news |last=Barrett |first=Jonathan |date=26 October 2015 |title=Christian MP Fred Nile to work with anti-Islamic party inspired by Geert Wilders |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/christian-mp-fred-nile-to-work-with-antiislamic-party-inspired-by-geert-wilders-20151022-gkg6md |work=Australian Financial Review |archive-date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031203613/https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/christian-mp-fred-nile-to-work-with-antiislamic-party-inspired-by-geert-wilders-20151022-gkg6md |url-status=live }}
{{nowrap|National conservatism{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/the-australian-liberty-alliance-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-24225 |title=The Australian Liberty Alliance and the politics of Islamophobia |last=T. Jones |first=Benjamin |date=12 March 2014 |website= |publisher=The Conversation |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524071957/https://theconversation.com/the-australian-liberty-alliance-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-24225 |url-status=live }}}}
Anti-immigration{{cite news |last=Charis |first=Chang |date=26 October 2015 |title=Is the Australian Liberty Alliance the next One Nation? |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/is-the-australian-liberty-alliance-the-next-one-nation/news-story/fa811244146b3c59f15086510267ce3a |work=news.com.au |location= |access-date= |archive-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426194728/https://www.news.com.au/national/is-the-australian-liberty-alliance-the-next-one-nation/news-story/fa811244146b3c59f15086510267ce3a |url-status=live }}

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| position = {{nowrap|Right-wing{{cite news |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |title=Anti-halal leader Kirralie Smith joins Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives |date=7 April 2017 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/antihalal-leader-kirralie-smith-joins-cory-bernardis-australian-conservatives-20170407-gvgb8f.html |access-date=6 April 2019 |archive-date=9 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009104715/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/antihalal-leader-kirralie-smith-joins-cory-bernardis-australian-conservatives-20170407-gvgb8f.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |work=News.com.au |title=Controversial internet personality Avi Yemini trolls Australia Day protesters |date=28 January 2019 |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/controversial-internet-personality-avi-yemini-trolls-australia-day-protesters/news-story/31ac7ceb91c5f573cd16e42eb973c76e|access-date=6 April 2019|archive-date=6 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406094552/https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/controversial-internet-personality-avi-yemini-trolls-australia-day-protesters/news-story/31ac7ceb91c5f573cd16e42eb973c76e|url-status=live |publisher=News Corp Australia }} to far-right{{cite news |last1=Le Grand |first1=Chip |title=Disgruntled Liberals explore far-right party options |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/disgruntled-liberals-explore-farright-party-options/news-story/2a31a2bb50fc1788395b470c2add0b22 |url-access=subscription |publisher=News Corp Australia |work=The Australian |date=26 September 2015 }}{{cite journal |last1=McSwiney |first1=Jordan |date=2024 |title=Far-Right Political Parties in Australia Disorganisation and Electoral Failure |url= |journal=Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy|publisher=Routledge |page=1 |doi=10.4324/9781003413271 }}}}

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| affiliation1 = Party for Freedom{{efn|Party for Freedom's Geert Wilders was a keynote speaker at the foundation of the party in Perth{{cite news |last= |first= |date=20 October 2015 |title=Controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders in Perth to launch anti-Islam party |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-20/geert-wilders-to-launch-anti-islam-party-in-perth/6868548 |work=ABC News |location= |access-date= |archive-date=2 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902083821/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-20/geert-wilders-to-launch-anti-islam-party-in-perth/6868548 |url-status=live }} and was a high-profile figure touting an “anti-islam” party for Australia, based on his own party's values.{{cite news |last=Medhora |first=Shalailah |date=9 October 2015 |title=Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders granted a visa for Australia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/09/dutch-far-right-politician-geert-wilders-granted-a-visa-for-australia |work=The Guardian |location= |access-date= |archive-date=9 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009104751/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/09/dutch-far-right-politician-geert-wilders-granted-a-visa-for-australia |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=21 October 2015 |title=Geert Wilders calls anti-Islamic ALA 'Australia's first freedom party' – video |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2015/oct/21/geert-wilders-ala-launch-australian-liberty-alliance-party-video |work=The Guardian |location= |access-date= |archive-date=9 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009104716/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2015/oct/21/geert-wilders-ala-launch-australian-liberty-alliance-party-video |url-status=live }}}}

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| website = [https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/ australianlibertyalliance.org.au]

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File:Yellow Vest Australia Logo.png

Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), briefly known as the Yellow Vest Australia (YVA) between 2019 and 2020, was a minor right-wing to far-right political party in Australia.far-right:

{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Jonathan |title=As election looms, far right targets small town Australia |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-election-far-right-idUSKCN0Z82SN |access-date=30 July 2020 |work=Reuters |date=June 23, 2016 |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108112350/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-election-far-right-idUSKCN0Z82SN |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |last1=Le Grand |first1=Chip |title=Disgruntled Liberals explore far-right party options |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/disgruntled-liberals-explore-farright-party-options/news-story/2a31a2bb50fc1788395b470c2add0b22 |access-date=30 July 2020 |agency=The Australian |publisher=News International |date=September 26, 2015 }}
{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Jonathan |title=Christian MP Fred Nile to work with anti-Islamic party inspired by Geert Wilders |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/christian-mp-fred-nile-to-work-with-antiislamic-party-inspired-by-geert-wilders-20151022-gkg6md |access-date=30 July 2020 |agency=Financial Review |publisher=Nine |date=Oct 26, 2015 |archive-date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031203613/https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/christian-mp-fred-nile-to-work-with-antiislamic-party-inspired-by-geert-wilders-20151022-gkg6md |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Benjamin |title=The Australian Liberty Alliance and the politics of Islamophobia |url=https://theconversation.com/the-australian-liberty-alliance-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-24225 |access-date=30 July 2020 |agency=The Conversation |publisher=The Conversation |date=March 12, 2014 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524071957/https://theconversation.com/the-australian-liberty-alliance-and-the-politics-of-islamophobia-24225 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |last1=Murray |first1=oliver |title=Far-right-wing parties after your vote on election day |url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/farrightwing-parties-after-your-vote-on-election-day/news-story/dea024a911e4e5bf2d8d6bb6fbd1f0b0 |access-date=30 July 2020 |agency=News.com |publisher=Nine |date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524053736/https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/farrightwing-parties-after-your-vote-on-election-day/news-story/dea024a911e4e5bf2d8d6bb6fbd1f0b0 |url-status=live }} The party was founded by members of the Q Society and has been described as the political wing of Q Society.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/debbie1ala?lang=en|title=Debbie Robinson 🇦🇺 (@debbie1ala) | Twitter|website=twitter.com|access-date=5 May 2019|archive-date=2 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702093250/https://twitter.com/debbie1ala?lang=en|url-status=live}} The leader was Debbie Robinson (President),{{Cite web |date= |orig-date= |title=About Us |url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/about-us.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306041812/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/about-us.html |archive-date=2019-03-06 |website=Australian Liberty Alliance}} who was also national president of the Q Society. On 4 September 2020, the Australian Electoral Commission removed the Yellow Vest Australia from the registered political party list.{{cite news |title=Yellow Vest Australia Voluntary Deregistration |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/files/20-21-009-voluntary-deregistration-web-notice-yellow-vest-australia.pdf |work=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=17 September 2020 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927020225/https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/files/20-21-009-voluntary-deregistration-web-notice-yellow-vest-australia.pdf |url-status=live }}

The party's core policy was opposition to Islam, with policies focusing on Muslim immigration such as enforcing "integration over separation", replacing multiculturalism with an integrated multi-ethnic society{{Cite web |date= |orig-date= |title=Australian Liberty Alliance |url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306040700/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/ |archive-date=2019-03-06 |website=Australian Liberty Alliance}} and stopping public funding for "associations formed around foreign nationalities".{{Cite web |date=November 2014 |title=Manifesto and Core Policies |url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/documents/ALA-Manifesto-OG14001R2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314072659/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/documents/ALA-Manifesto-OG14001R2.pdf |archive-date=2018-03-14 |publisher=Australian Liberty Alliance Management Pty Ltd |publication-place=Wembley, WA, Australia |edition=2nd}} They vowed to "stop the Islamisation of Australia".{{Cite web |date= |orig-date= |title=Stop the Islamisation |url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/stop-the-islamisation.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043238/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/stop-the-islamisation.html |archive-date=2019-03-06 |website=Australian Liberty Alliance}} Party president Debbie Robinson has made a number of Islam-critical statements including that Islam is "a totalitarian ideology that does not separate its law from its religious entity" and that "Slowly but surely our Judeo-Christian values, ethics and customs are being replaced" and warned that "If we continue to tolerate Islam without understanding it, Australia as a free, secular democracy will be lost".{{Cite web |date=2011-03-02 |title=Q on: Why We Oppose Islam for Australia |url=http://www.qsociety.org.au/qopposingislam.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713221401/http://www.qsociety.org.au/qopposingislam.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-13 |publisher=Q Society of Australia |id=Form Q11025R2 – Q Opposing Islam}}{{Cite web |date=30 August 2013 |title=Why We Oppose Islam: So much more than just another religion |url=http://www.qsociety.org.au/opposing_islam.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916171714/http://www.qsociety.org.au:80/opposing_islam.htm |archive-date=2013-09-16 |website=Q Society of Australia Inc - Australia's Leading Islam-critical Organisation}}

Other policies included promoting smaller government, privatising public broadcaster SBS and scaling down the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, opposing taxpayer-funded subsidies for renewable energy, promoting advanced nuclear energy, ending dual citizenship for new citizenship applicants, simplifying the tax system with less income tax and a stronger focus on GST, improving public healthcare by more efficient cooperation with the private healthcare sector, advancing the 'natural family', and restoring civil society.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Policies and ideology

The party released a manifesto listing twenty key policy areas, including "smarter smaller government", "integration over separation," and "real reconciliation: no place for apartheid in Australia." However, the party focused most of its efforts on its criticism of Islam. That included the party's policy to "stop the Islamisation of Australia",{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/farrightwing-parties-after-your-vote-on-election-day/news-story/dea024a911e4e5bf2d8d6bb6fbd1f0b0|title=Far-right-wing parties after your vote on election day|last1=Murray|first1=Oliver|date=26 April 2016|publisher=news.com.au|access-date=21 May 2016}} and their efforts to bring to Australia noted anti-Islamic speakers such as Geert Wilders.{{Cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amid-racism-fear/6874336|title=Wilders Senate candidates include ex-Army officer, anti-halal campaigner|date=2015-10-21|work=ABC News|access-date=2018-11-06|language=en-AU|archive-date=9 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009104717/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amid-racism-fear/6874336|url-status=live}}

=Immigration=

The party was focused on stopping immigration from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries into Australia. It wanted Australia to focus its refugee efforts to preference white South African refugees, which the party claims have been victims of South African farm attacks. It also called for Islamic organisations, including mosques and Islamic schools in Australia to respect the human rights and Australian law.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

One of their stated goals is to defend human rights and prevent any Sharia court system from being established.{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/values-and-policies/australian-law-and-constitution.html|title=Australian Law and Constitution|last=proitservice|date=2015-09-29|website=www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au|language=en|access-date=2018-11-08|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109112006/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/values-and-policies/australian-law-and-constitution.html|url-status=dead}}

=Environment=

The party claimed that they were "neither 'believers' nor 'deniers' when it comes to climate change". They were critical of propositions that taxing CO₂ emissions would have a noticeable effect on the global climate system. ALA has raised doubts about the competency of certain scientists and that their studies "are not based on scientific fact, but on computerised speculations and consent among special interest groups", and about climate change in general with their claim that "extreme natural events were described in Australian poetry a century before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change created hysteria about rising sea levels".{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/values-and-policies/natural-resources-and-environment.html|title=Natural Resources and Environment=|date=2015-09-29|website=www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au|language=en|access-date=2018-11-08|archive-date=9 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070922/https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/values-and-policies/natural-resources-and-environment.html|url-status=dead}}

Electoral history

The Australian Liberty Alliance performed poorly at both state and federal elections it has contested.

The party was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on 28 July 2015{{cite web|title=Australian Liberty Alliance|url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/aust-liberty-alliance.htm|website=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=21 May 2016|archive-date=20 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520031933/http://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/aust-liberty-alliance.htm|url-status=live}} and was officially launched at a private function on 20 October 2015 in Perth, with controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders and British anti-sharia activist Anne Marie Waters as keynote speakers.{{cite web |last1=Safi |first1=Michael |title=Would-be senator Angry Anderson says he feels Australia's 'pain' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/09/would-be-senator-angry-anderson-says-he-feels-australias-pain |date=9 May 2016 |website=The Guardian |access-date=9 March 2019 |archive-date=9 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009104828/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/09/would-be-senator-angry-anderson-says-he-feels-australias-pain |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=Australian Liberty Alliance: Geert Wilders unveils Senate candidates amid warnings over 'blatant racism'|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amid-racism-fear/6874336|access-date=21 May 2016|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|date=22 October 2015|archive-date=20 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520080751/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-21/australian-liberty-alliance-candidates-unveiled-amid-racism-fear/6874336|url-status=live}} The party had extensive connections with the international counter-jihad movement.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqE5EAAAQBAJ&dq=australian+liberty+alliance+counter-jihad&pg=PA28|title=Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization|first1=Judith|last1=Bessant|first2=Melody|last2=Devries|first3=Rob|last3=Watts|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2021|isbn=9781786614933}}

At the 2016 Australian federal election, ALA fielded 13 senate candidates and 10 House of Representatives candidates. The party received only 25,337 primary votes in total in the House of Representatives and 102,982 primary votes or 0.74% of the total in the senate.{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm |title=Candidates for the 2016 federal election |date=11 June 2016 |access-date=11 June 2016 |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |archive-date=13 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613080512/http://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm |url-status=live }} It recorded 0.66% of the senate vote in New South Wales and Victoria, 0.42% in South Australia, 0.33% in Tasmania, 1.08% in Queensland and 1.11% in Western Australia. Their best result in the House of Representatives was the Division of Farrer, where they polled 6.08%.{{Cite web |url=http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-20499-NAT.htm |title=Australian Electoral Commission Tally Room, retrieved 27 July 2016 |access-date=27 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704145222/http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-20499-NAT.htm |archive-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} The party spent $1.5 million on the campaign.{{cite web |last1=Seccombe |first1=Mike |title=Inside the sick, sad world of the Q Society and the Australian Liberty Alliance |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/02/25/inside-the-sick-sad-world-the-q-society-and-the-australian-liberty-alliance |website=The Saturday Paper |date=25 February 2017 |publisher=Schwartz Media |access-date=9 March 2019 |archive-date=19 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319062829/https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/02/25/inside-the-sick-sad-world-the-q-society-and-the-australian-liberty-alliance |url-status=live }} On 7 April 2017, Kirralie Smith, a former candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance and a member of the Q Society and Senate candidate for New South Wales in 2016, joined the Australian Conservatives.{{cite web |author=Federal Politics |url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/antihalal-leader-kirralie-smith-joins-cory-bernardis-australian-conservatives-20170407-gvgb8f.html |title=Anti-halal leader Kirralie Smith joins Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=8 April 2017 |access-date=25 April 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409205954/http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/antihalal-leader-kirralie-smith-joins-cory-bernardis-australian-conservatives-20170407-gvgb8f.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.conservatives.org.au/kirralie_smith_joins_australian_conservatives |title=Kirralie Smith joins Australian Conservatives |publisher=Australian Conservatives |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=25 April 2017 |archive-date=23 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723022739/http://www.conservatives.org.au/kirralie_smith_joins_australian_conservatives |url-status=dead }}

On 1 October 2018, ALA registered as a political party in Victoria, and contested the 2018 Victorian election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/CandidatesAndParties/CurrentRegisteredParties.html|title=Currently registered parties - Victorian Electoral Commission|website=www.vec.vic.gov.au|access-date=31 October 2018|archive-date=9 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109155033/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/CandidatesAndParties/CurrentRegisteredParties.html|url-status=live}} Contesting only the district of Yan Yean, the party received 2.5% of the primary votes in the seat and 0.56% for the Victorian Legislative Council.{{cite web|url=https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2018/summary.html|title=State Election 2018 results|work=Victorian Electoral Commission|access-date=14 December 2018|archive-date=14 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214164820/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2018/summary.html|url-status=live}} Avi Yemini ran for the party as the lead candidate for the Southern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council, where the party received 2,075 votes or 0.48% of the total.{{cite web |title=State Election 2018: Southern Metropolitan Region |url=https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2018/SouthernMetropolitanRegion.html |website=Victorian Electoral Commission |access-date=10 March 2019 |archive-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210143448/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2018/SouthernMetropolitanRegion.html |url-status=live }}

The party has contested several by-elections where it also polled poorly. The party polled 0.85% of the vote at the 2017 Bennelong by-election,{{cite web |url=http://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-21379-105.htm |title=Bennelong By-election |author= |website=AEC Tally Room |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=5 January 2018 |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219045408/http://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-21379-105.htm |url-status=dead }} 1.39% at the 2018 Batman by-election,{{cite web|url=http://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-21751-199.htm|title=Batman By-election|website=AEC Tally Room|publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=18 March 2018|archive-date=20 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320123547/http://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-21751-199.htm|url-status=dead}} 1.18% at the 2018 Perth by-election,{{Cite web|url=https://results.aec.gov.au/22695/Website/HouseDivisionPage-22696-245.htm|title=House of Representatives division information|first=Canberra|last=scheme=AGLSTERMS. AglsAgent; corporateName=Australian Electoral Commission; address=50 Marcus Clarke Street|website=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=10 March 2019|archive-date=30 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830074044/https://results.aec.gov.au/22695/Website/HouseDivisionPage-22696-245.htm|url-status=live}} and 0.20% at the 2018 Wentworth by-election.{{cite web |title=Wentworth, NSW |url=https://results.aec.gov.au/22844/Website/HouseDivisionPage-22844-152.htm |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=7 November 2018 |language=en-AU |archive-date=5 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305171605/https://results.aec.gov.au/22844/Website/HouseDivisionPage-22844-152.htm |url-status=live }}

On 9 April 2019, the AEC approved the party's name change to "Yellow Vest Australia", in time to allow the party to field candidates at the 2019 Australian federal election under the party's new name. The party nominated two candidates for the Senate for Victoria and Western Australia. Party president Debbie Robinson (who was also the president of Q Society and stood for the Senate in WA) stated that the new name was inspired by the yellow vests movement in France, claiming that the movement shared the party's representation of "disgruntled voters who are concerned about globalism, immigration (and) the cost of living". She also hoped the change would end confusion with the name of the Liberal Party of Australia.{{cite news |title=Far-right party rebrands as 'Yellow Vest Australia' for elections |url=https://news.yahoo.com/far-party-rebrands-yellow-vest-australia-elections-052503744.html |access-date=16 April 2019 |work=news.yahoo.com |date=9 April 2019 |archive-date=16 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416035022/https://news.yahoo.com/far-party-rebrands-yellow-vest-australia-elections-052503744.html |url-status=live }}

= Results =

== Federal parliament ==

class=wikitable
colspan=5 align=center\|House of Representatives
Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! +/–
2016 \|align=center\|25,337 \|align=center\|0.19 (#13/45) \|align=center\|{{Composition bar\|0\|150\|hex=#10C25B}} \|align=center\|{{steady}}

class=wikitable

colspan=5 align=center|House of Representatives

Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

2016

|align=center|25,337

|align=center|0.19 (#13/45)

|align=center|{{Composition bar|0|150|hex=#10C25B}}

|align=center|{{steady}}

class=wikitable
align=center colspan=7\|Senate
Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! # of overall seats ! +/–
2016 \|align=center\|103,035 \|align=center\|0.74 (#12/49) \|align=center\|{{Composition bar\|0\|40\|hex=#10C25B}} \|align=center\|{{Composition bar\|0\|76\|hex=#10C25B}} \|align=center\|{{steady}}
2019 \|align=center\|3,263 \|align=center\|0.02 (#45/45) \|align=center\|{{Composition bar\|0\|40\|hex=#10C25B}} \|align=center\|{{Composition bar\|0\|76\|hex=#10C25B}} \|align=center\|{{steady}}

class=wikitable

align=center colspan=7|Senate

Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! # of
overall seats

! +/–

2016

|align=center|103,035

|align=center|0.74 (#12/49)

|align=center|{{Composition bar|0|40|hex=#10C25B}}

|align=center|{{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#10C25B}}

|align=center|{{steady}}

2019

|align=center|3,263

|align=center|0.02 (#45/45)

|align=center|{{Composition bar|0|40|hex=#10C25B}}

|align=center|{{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#10C25B}}

|align=center|{{steady}}

== State parliaments ==

class=wikitable
colspan=5\|Victorian Legislative Assembly
Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! +/–
2018 \| 1,232 \| 0.04(#15/15) \| {{Composition bar\|0\|88\|hex=#10C25B}} \| {{increase}} 0

class=wikitable

colspan=5|Victorian Legislative Assembly

Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

2018

| 1,232

| 0.04(#15/15)

| {{Composition bar|0|88|hex=#10C25B}}

| {{increase}} 0

class=wikitable
colspan=7\|Victorian Legislative Council
Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! # of overall seats ! +/–
2018 \| 20,065 \| 0.56(#17/19) \| {{Composition bar\|0\|40\|hex=#10C25B}} \| {{Composition bar\|0\|40\|hex=#10C25B}} \| {{increase}} 0

class=wikitable

colspan=7|Victorian Legislative Council

Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! # of
overall seats

! +/–

2018

| 20,065

| 0.56(#17/19)

| {{Composition bar|0|40|hex=#10C25B}}

| {{increase}} 0

Deregistration

In 2019, the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) reviewed all registered political parties, following the review the Australian Liberty Alliance voluntarily de-registered in Victoria. The Australian Liberty Alliance cannot re-register as a political party until after the 2022 State election.{{cite web |title=De-registration of the Australian Liberty Alliance |url=https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/media/20190612-DeRegistrationOfTheAustralianLibertyAlliance.html |website=Victorian Electoral Commission |access-date=7 August 2019 |archive-date=7 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807093021/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/media/20190612-DeRegistrationOfTheAustralianLibertyAlliance.html |url-status=dead }}

In 2020, the Australian Electoral Commission removed the Yellow Vest Australia from the registered political party list.