Single Tax League - Wikipedia

Single Tax League Single Tax League
Founded	ca 1910s
Ideology	Georgism
Political position	CentretoCentre-left
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TheSingle Tax Leaguewas aGeorgist Australian political partythat flourished throughout the 1920s and 1930s based on support forsingle tax.

Based upon the ideas ofHenry George,who argued that all taxes should be abolished, save for a single tax on unimproved land values, the Single Tax League was founded shortly afterWorld War I,and a newspaper, thePeople's Advocatewas published. The League had pockets of support throughoutAustraliabut none more than on the west coast ofSouth Australia,whose farmers and graziers saw merit insingle tax theory.A great proponent of the theory wasJ. Medway Dayviahis short-lived weekly newspaperThe Voice.

The League's sole parliamentary representative wasEdward Craigie,who was elected to theSouth Australian House of Assemblyseat ofFlinders(covering the League's west coast power base) in the1930 state election.Though the party first contested the1918 state election,the onset of theGreat Depression in Australiahad led people to seek radical solutions and the manifesto of the League seemed as likely to solve their woes as any government devised plan.

Craigie worked tirelessly to have a single tax system instituted in South Australia but faced stiff opposition from the conservativeLiberal Federation(and their successors, theLiberal and Country League), which despised the idea of a single tax, and theLabor Party,which was opposed to the League'sfree tradestance.

Craigie was re-elected at the1933and1938 state electionsbefore being defeated at the1941 state election,when the ideas of the Single Tax League already seemed an anachronism to most people. The League did not field any further candidates and drifted into obscurity.

Election results

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Australian Senate
Date	Votes			Seats		Position	Size
Date	No.	%	± pp	No.	±	Position	Size
1918	1,398	0.43	New	0 / 46	New	Extra-parliamentary	5th
1921	Did not run.
1924	Did not run.
1927	1,923	0.40	0.3	0 / 46	0	Extra-parliamentary	5th
1930	2,777	1.32	0.92	1 / 46	1	Opposition	4th
1933	5,429	3.12	1.80	1 / 46	0	Opposition	5th
1938	1,451	0.66	2.46	0 / 39	1	Extra-parliamentary	3rd

References

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Plague on Both Your Houses: Minor Parties in Australia,D. Jaensch & D. Mathieson, Allen & Unwin, Sydney (1999).ISBN 1-86448-421-7
Barnacles and Parasites,R. Jennings, Nesfield Press, Adelaide (1992).ISBN 0-9599230-4-7

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