Party abbreviations

The following are parties that have stood in elections listed on these pages. Note that the sundry groups calling themselves 'Greens' are all listed as such (rather than as Tasmanian Greens, Greens WA etc. as they appeared on ballot papers at the time), except where two 'Green' groups stood against each other.
AAFI
Australians Against Further Immigration
AC
Australian Constitutionalist
ACH
Call to Australia Child Protection (Elaine Nile) Party (don't ask me how you get ACH out of that, but that's what the AEC lists it as)
ACP
Australian Conservative Party
AChP
Australian Christian Party
ACS
Abolish Child Support and Family Court
AF
Australia First Party
AFM
Australian Family Movement
AIP
Australia's Indigenous People's Party
ALP
Australian Labor Party
ANAG
Australian National Action Group
ANP
Australian National Party
AP
Australia Party
APPG
Australian Pensioners Pressure Group
ARefM
Australian Reform Movement
ARP
Australian Republican Party
ASG
Abolish Self-Government Coalition (ACT)
AWP
Australian Women's Party
CAP
Confederate Action Party
CDP
Christian Democratic Party
CEC
Citizens Electoral Councils
CIR
Pensioner and Citizen Initiated Referendum Alliance
CLP
Country Liberal Party (NT)
CNA
Combined New Australia Party
CNP
Conservative Nationalist Party
CP
Country Party (now National Party)
CPA
Communist Party of Australia
CR
Constitutionalist Republican
CTA
Call To Australia (Fred Nile) Group (now known as Christian Democratic Party, but have kept initials CTA)
Dem
Australian Democrats
DemS
Democratic Socialist Electoral League (formerly Democratic Socialist Party)
DLP
Democratic Labor Party
DOGS
Council for the Defence of Government Schools
DSP
Deadly Serious Party
EFF
Independent Enterprise, Family and Freedom Party
EAPP
Engineered Australia Plan Party
EI
Environment Independents
FLR
Family Law Reform Party
Grn
The Greens (in various incarnations)
Gry
Grey Power
IBCP
Imperial British Conservative Party
Ind
Independent
Lib
Liberal Party
Lbt
Libertarian
LM
Liberal Movement
LR
Liberal Reform
LRG
Liberal Reform Group
Mar
Marijuana Party
NA
National Alliance (a short-lived incarnation of the WA National Party)
NAN
No Aircraft Noise
NAP
New Australia Party
Nat
National Party
NCP
National Country Party (formerly Country Party, now National Party)
NCPWA
National Country Party of Western Australia (a short-lived splinter group)
NDP
Nuclear Disarmament Party
NHP
National Humanitarian Party
NL
Natural Law Party
NSWC
National South-West Coalition
ON
(Pauline Hanson's) One Nation
PCP
Progressive Conservative Party
PP
Progress Party
PPA
Pensioner Party of Australia
PPAA
Pensioner Power Association of Australia
RARI
Reclaim Australia: Reduce Immigration
RCG
Richmond-Clarence Greens
RCL
Rex Connor (snr.) Labor Party
Ref
Australian Reform Party
RPA
Republican Party of Australia
Shoot
Shooters Party
SC
Social Credit
SEP
Socialist Equality Party
SLL
Socialist Labour League
SP
Socialist Party
SPA
Socialist Party of Australia
SWP
Socialist Workers Party
TF
Tasmania First Party
UCP
United Christian Party
UM
Uninflated Movement
Unite AP
Unite Australia Party (not to be confused with the United Australia Party, predecessor of the Liberal Party)
Unity
Unity Party
UTG
United Tasmanian Group
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