From the 1880s, until after Federation in 1901, Victorian politics were dominated by Protectionist Liberals, who were opposed by Free Trade Conservatives.

The term Beggar-My-Neighbour has been used to describe the mutually destructive side effects of Protectionist economic policy employed by governments.

The Barton Government which won the first elections following Federation in 1901 was formed by the Protectionist Party with the support of the Australian Labour Party.

Confronted by the rising Australian Labor Party in 1909, he merged his Protectionist Party with Joseph Cook's Anti-Socialist Party to create the Commonwealth Liberal Party ( known commonly as the Fusion ), the main ancestor of the modern Liberal Party of Australia.

Influenced by the economic reaction which took place in 1879 in consequence of the state of affairs in Germany, where Prince Otto von Bismarck had introduced the protectionist system, a Protectionist party had been formed, which tried to gain adherents in the Riksdag.

thumbReid supported the federation of the Australian colonies, but since the campaign was led by his Protectionist opponent Edmund Barton he did not take a leading role.

He settled on opposition to socialism, criticising both the Australian Labor Party and the support offered to it by the Protectionist Party, led by Alfred Deakin.

The Protectionist vote had declined considerably by the 1906 federal election.

The Peelites were often called the " Liberal Conservatives ", in contrast to " Protectionist Conservatives " led by Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

Maloney resigned from the Assembly to stand for the Division of Melbourne at the 1903 federal election, narrowly losing to the opposing Protectionist Party candidate Malcolm McEacharn but, following a protest, largely on irregularities relating to postal votes, the 1903 result was voided and a by election run in 1904, which Maloney duly won.

It was always a safe seat for the conservative parties, being held successively by Protectionist Party, Nationalist Party, United Australia Party and Liberal Party members.

In May 1893 he exchanged this for the position of treasurer, but was ousted in the April 1893 election by liberal Protectionist Kingston with the support of the new Labor Party led by John McPherson.

Groom won the first federal by-election in Australian history, as a Protectionist for the seat of Darling Downs, caused by the death of his father William Henry Groom.

It was constantly being assailed by the Labour Party and the liberal Protectionist section of Deakin's followers, such as H. B. Higgins and Isaac Isaacs.

This episode caused great bitterness in the Protectionist ranks, and at the 1906 elections McLean was opposed in Gippsland by a liberal Protectionist, George Wise, who narrowly defeated McLean with Labour support.

Protectionist policies were enacted that limited imports and favored exports.

* During the second parliament, three parties ( Free Trade, Protectionist and Labor ) had roughly equal representation in the House of Representatives.

Protectionist policies were particularly prevalent in the 1930s, between the great depression and the onset of World War II.

Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation.

Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have contributed to determining where plantations have been located.

He contributed solidly to the federation movement through the 1890s, eventually contesting the inaugural 1901 federal election as head of a caretaker Protectionist Party federal government.

In January 1889, he agreed to being appointed Attorney-General in George Dibbs's Protectionist government, despite his previous support for free trade.

Dibbs formed a Protectionist government and Barton agreed to be Attorney-General with the right of carry out private practice as a lawyer.

Barton was elected unopposed to the seat of Hunter in the new Parliament ( although he never lived in that electorate ) and his Protectionist Party won enough seats to form a government with the support of the Labor Party.

Labor no longer trusted Reid and gave their support to the Edmund Barton Protectionist Party government, so Reid became the first Leader of the Opposition, a position well-suited to his robust debating style and rollicking sense of humour.

The Protectionist vote dropped again with more seats lost at the 1906 election.

Isaacs was elected to the first federal Parliament in 1901 to the seat of Indi as a critical supporter of Edmund Barton and his Protectionist government.

The argument of the two capitals was a bad one, since it is the amount of capital that matters, not its subdivision ; but the invisible sanction was given to a Protectionist idea, not for defence but for employment.

He became Reid's deputy, but did not hold office in Reid's 1904 – 05 ministry, mainly because Reid needed to offer portfolios to independent Protectionist members.

The Labor Party and the FTP / ASP continued to grow in electoral strength at the expense of the Protectionist vote.

: This article is about the Protectionist Party of 1889-1909.

The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism.

He was a leading proponent of and contributed extensively on the Federation of Australia, and was elected to the federal House of Representatives with the most votes amongst the seven elected in the single South Australian division at the 1901 federal election, serving under the Protectionist Party.

Liberal Protectionist was the name under which three candidates sought election to the Canadian House of Commons for ridings in Quebec in two elections in the early twentieth century.

In this respect Grey's position was like that of the Earl of Derby in the Protectionist Conservative opposition of the late 1840s and early 1850s.

In the House of Lords, Lord Stanley ( subsequently the Earl of Derby ) was the Protectionist leader.

McCay decided to run in Corio against the sitting member, Richard Crouch, although he was also a Protectionist, but Crouch won convincingly.

The ministry was made up of Protectionist Party members.

Turner was elected to the first Australian House of Representatives in 1901 as a Protectionist member for the Division of Balaclava.

The only Protectionist Senator from New South Wales, he was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate, and was instrumental in the evolution of that house as subordinate to the House of Representatives, although he encouraged the introduction of legislation into the Senate.

A Protectionist, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 1888 – 99 and was an appointed member of the Legislative Council of Queensland 1899 – 1901.

He succeeded George Turner as leader of the Victorian Liberals, but was much more conservative than either Turner or the federal Protectionist Party leader, Alfred Deakin.

Higgins was an awkward colleague for the Protectionist leadership, and in 1906 Deakin appointed him as a Justice of the High Court of Australia as a means of getting him out of politics, although he was undoubtedly qualified for the post.