Liberal Coalition (Maximusian)

The Liberal Coalition (LC) refers to a loosely unified centrist federal legislative voting bloc which formed in opposition to the Labor Party, primarily from moderates within the National Conservative and Progressive parties and independents in the 1960s and '70s. In the 1980s, the Liberal Coalition emerged as moderating influence on most major parties, arguably excluding the Labor Party, but most members of the bloc reintegrated into their former parties or switched parties by the late 1990s. Although some members of the LC considered themselves to be exclusively affiliated with the bloc, the Liberal Coalition was never considered an official political party, and many members continued to hold party membership with other factions while voting with the LC.