Holt was drawn to politics in the early 1930s and joined the Prahran branch of the United Australia Party ( UAP ) in 1933.

In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.

When Menzies was forced to resign as Prime Minister, the UAP was so bereft of leadership that Fadden briefly succeeded him ( despite the Country Party being the junior partner in the governing coalition ).

The UAP was so bereft of leadership at this time that the Country Party leader Arthur Fadden was invited to become prime minister, although the Country Party was the smaller of the two coalition parties.

On 18 April, Menzies was elected Leader of the UAP and was sworn in as Prime Minister eight days later.

The UAP was so bereft of leadership that it was forced to then turn to former Prime Minister Billy Hughes as its new leader.

The United Australia Party ( UAP ) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945.

The UAP largely supported the western powers in their policy of appeasement, however veteran UAP minister Billy Hughes was an exception and he embarrassed the government with his 1935 book book Australia and the War Today which exposed a lack of preparation in Australia for what Hughes correctly supposed to be a coming war.

The UAP was so bereft of leadership that it was forced to turn to Hughes as its new leader.

Under the circumstances, a joint UAP – Country Party meeting chose Fadden to be his successor as Prime Minister, even though the Country Party was nominally the junior partner in the coalition.

Having spent all but eight months of its existence prior to 1941 in government, the UAP was ill-prepared for a role in opposition.

Menzies was convinced that the UAP was no longer viable, and a new anti-Labor party needed to be formed to replace it.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

The UAP came up four seats short of a majority in its own right, but Lyons formed an exclusively UAP government supported by the Country Party of Earle Page.

He was its leader until 1931 when he wound the party up and joined the newly formed UAP.

In November 1931, Lang Labor dissidents broke with the Scullin government and joined with the UAP opposition to pass a no-confidence motion, forcing an early election.

With the Labor Party split between Scullin's supporters and Langites, and with a very popular leader ( Lyons had a genial manner and the common touch ), the UAP won the subsequent parliamentary elections in December 1931 in a massive landslide which saw the two wings of the Labor Party cut down to 18 seats between them, and Lyons became Prime Minister in January 1932.

At the 1931 election, Lyons and the UAP offered stable, orthodox financial policies, and portrayed an image of putting national unity above class conflict ( given credibility by Lyons, a working-class man leading a party made of largely of middle-and upper-class conservatives ), while Labor remained split between the official party and the Langites.

* Tom Brennan, older brother of Frank and Federal UAP Senator, 1931 – 37

In 1931 he buried the hatchet with his former colleagues and joined the new United Australia Party ( UAP ), under the leadership of Joseph Lyons.

In 1931 Casey returned to Australia and was elected to the House of Representatives as the United Australia Party ( UAP ) Member for the Geelong-based seat of Corio.

The UAP won a huge victory in the 1931 election, and Latham was appointed Attorney-General once again.

Lang continued to lead the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party, which had effectively seceded from the Federal Labor Party, when Lang's supporters sided with the UAP to bring down the Scullin Labor Government in November 1931.

In the absence of a UAP deputy, the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, appointed Country Party leader Earl Page as his temporary replacement, pending the selection of Lyons ' successor by the UAP.

UAP branches tended to become inactive between elections, and its politicians were seen as compromised by their reliance on large donations from business and financial organisations.

Although the UAP was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as leader rather than the Nationalists ' last leader, John Latham.

The UAP fought the election in the traditional non-Labor Coalition with the Country Party ( then led by Sir Earle Page ).

Since the Commonwealth Government had become responsible for state debts in 1928 under an amendment to the Constitution, the new UAP government of Joseph Lyons paid the interest to the overseas bondholders, and then set about extracting the money from NSW by passing the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act 1932, which the High Court held to be valid.

Hughes led the UAP into the 1943 election largely by refusing to hold any party meetings and by agreeing to let Fadden lead the Opposition as a whole.

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Male journalists at the time complained about the power of the group " Political godmothers rule UAP ( United Australia Party ) with haughty mien ... the political fate of the electorate was controlled by women.

Stevens had been in conflict with the deputy leader of the UAP, Eric Spooner since 1936 for not running a balanced budget and, Spooner resigned from cabinet in July 1939 and on 1 August, moved a no confidence motion against him, succeeding by two votes.

At the 1934 federal election Holt unsuccessfully contested the safe Labor seat of Yarra for the UAP, running against former Prime Minister James Scullin.

Though no longer in formal coalition, his government survived because the Country Party preferred a UAP government to that of a Labor government.

The UAP – Country Party coalition and the Labor parties won 36 seats each.

Four Prime Ministers in 1945: Labor Prime Minister John Curtin ( left ) shares a joke with the Governor General Prince Henry ( in uniform ) with former Country Party Prime Minister Arthur Fadden, Nationalist Prime Minister Billy Hughes and UAP Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

The result was a huge victory for the UAP, which took 34 seats against 18 seats for the two wings of the Labor Party combined.

Ward lost his seat later that year to the UAP at the federal election as the Labor vote was split between Ward and the official ALP candidate.