Liberal Coalition (Maximusian)

Simon Black, the 26th president, was the only member of Liberal Coalition to occupy the presidency.

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. By the early 1980s, the Liberal Coalition was large enough to serve as a 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 end of the decade. 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. Simon Black, a former Conservative member of the General Assembly, held the presidency from 1977 until 1981 as an independent, though he caucused primarily with Liberal Coalition members.