Outdoor Recreation Party
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- This aticle is about an Australian political party. For a political party of a similar name see Outdoor Recreation New Zealand.
The Outdoor Recreation Party is a minor political party in Australia. It largely represents the outdoor community and such interests as camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, skiing, walking, fishing lobbies, as well as similar recreational groups which perceive their interests as being threatened by conservation groups implementing "wilderness" protection policies which ignore the notion of 'human interaction'. Their main platform is based around community involvement with nature.
The party has contested several federal and state elections, though it has only managed to elect one state MP, Malcolm Jones, who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1999 due to a very strong flow of preferences from other parties, despite receiving only 0.2% of the primary vote. Jones resigned in 2003 amidst a corruption scandal, and party member Dr Jon Jenkins was elected by the Legislative Council to serve out the remainder of Jones' term, which does not end until 2007. Since Dr Jenkins' election there has been a distinct change in the character of the ORP.
Although there had been some scepticism, as to ORP's chances of attaining registered party status in NSW[citation needed] the party passed the registration process as required by the NSW Electoral Office in June 2006, allowing it to contest the 2007 New South Wales state election. In relation to the internal party politics of the ORP, its constitution has made it difficult for the rank and file to implement change in the direction of the party to a wider platform and as a result many members have become disillusioned with the party. The ORP is currently altering the processes required for implementing change and has adopted a wider set of policies on many social issues. These can be viewed here [1]
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