What is National Labor Party?
{{Infobox Australian political party | party_name = National Labor Party | party_wikicolourid = National Labor | party_logo = Hughes15-16.jpg | leader = [[Billy Hughes]] | deputy = | foundation = 14 November 1916 | predecessor = pro-conscription [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] | dissolution = 17 February 1917 | successor = [[Nationalist Party of Australia]] | ideology = [[Social democracy]]<br>[[Nationalism]] | position = [[Centre-left]] | international = }} The '''National Labor Party''' was an [[Australia]]n [[political party]] which only existed for three months. It was started by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Billy Hughes]] in November 1916. Hughes had taken over as leader of the [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP) and Prime Minister when [[Andrew Fisher]] resigned in 1915. Hughes formed the new party after he was forced out of the ALP a month after [[conscription]] was rejected by the people in the 1916 vote. Hughes still wanted conscription for [[World War I]]. On 15 September 1916, the Labor Party in New South Wales forced Hughes from the Labor Party. On 14 November 1916, Hughes and 24 other Labor members walked out of a meeting of the Labor members of parliament. The remaining 43 members said they did not want Hughes to continue as their leader. Hughes and his followers formed a minority Government with support from the [[Commonwealth Liberal Party]] (CLP) led by [[Joseph Cook]]. They said the Australian Labor Party was no longer [[nationalist]]. They wanted a new party that would be both socially radical and nationalist. The National Labor Party had to depend on support from the [[Commonwealth Liberal Party]] to govern. In 1917, the two groups joined to form a new party, the [[Nationalist Party of Australia]], with Hughes as leader. The National Labor Party was never a proper political party. It did not have any organisational structure. It did get support from some [[trade union]] officials and Labor Party branches, particularly in [[Western Australia]] and [[Tasmania]]. ==