A few far-right parties (amongst other minority parties) have just been de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on account of their names being too similar to other parties.

Oh dear. Here they are:

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia & Citizens Electoral Council Australia (NSW Division)

The CEC is the political wing of the local arm of the Lyndon Larouche ‘juggernaut’. It would be highly improper to accuse them of impropriety, but this mob is dodgy as in terms of their fund-raising and recruitment. Oh, and they’re an anti-semitic personality cult.

One Nation Queensland Division & One Nation Western Australia

Never fear - their policies live on in the Howard government. (Latte, anyone?)

New Country Party

A splinter group formed out of WA One Nation, which was caught up in controversy over its webmaster’s racist views.

And The Great Australians.

This was a weird mob. TGA was the political wing of Austand, “Australia‘s foremost independent political research organisation”… and an extremist group that believed the Treasury Department was attempting to sabotage Australia on the orders of the IMF and the WTO. TGA was formed in response to infighting within One Nation, and eventually merged with a number of One Nation offshoots.

One of their senior members was Bevan O’Regan - formerly of Australians Against Further Immigration and One Nation - who managed to divide his time between TGA and the anti-semitic Australian League of Rights with aplomb and panache. Their chairman, John Cumming, was the bloke who came up with Pauline Hanson’s infamous 2% Easy Tax - an economic policy which he incorporated into TGA.

They’ll all be missed.

More info:
The Age: Name blame as minor parties get the chop
Discussion of the decision at Slackbastard