Liberals for Forests (LFF) was an

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. It contested both state and federal elections between 2001 and 2008, but only ever achieved one elected representative – Janet Woollard in

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. It never achieved representation at the federal level. The party was founded in 1999 by Dr Keith Woollard, husband of Janet Woollard and an ex- AMA president. Janet successfully contested a seat at the 2001 state election, and was re-elected in

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and again in

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as an

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. The party generally professed itself to be ideologically aligned with the centre-right sympathies of the

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, but was aligned with

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in certain states such as NSW but with a greater regard to

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. Despite its low profile, the party gained a respectable proportion of the primary senate vote in some states. For example, in the 2004 election it received only a few hundred votes less than the

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in Victoria.

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and the

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was "liberals for forests" (uncapitalised), but it was known in newspapers as "Liberals for Forests". By late 2009, Liberals for Forests was no longer a registered political party anywhere in Australia.

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