Country-National Organisation
The Country-National Organisation[a] was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland during the Second World War.Then in April of the latter year, the new federal leader of the Country Party Arthur Fadden, MP for the Queensland Division of Darling Downs, sought to merge the Country and United Australia parties into a single force.Only in Queensland did this yield much success with the two parliamentary parties forming the Country-National Organisation.Former federal MP James Hunter worked hard for demerger, an aim achieved by 1944.[5] Nicklin continued as the leader of the Country Party which immediately hammered out a Coalition agreement with the Queensland People's Party, formed by John Beals Chandler and had absorbed the remains of the Queensland UAP branch.