UAP
Noun
Meaning
UAP (plural UAPs)
Initialism of unidentified aerial phenomenon; synonym of UFO (“unidentified flying object”)
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Askin retained his seat with 70.97%. citation It was the first time since the UAP /Country Coalition won three consecutive elections from 1932 to 1938 that a non-Labor government in New South Wales had been reelected.
Although the UAP had been in power for a decade, it was so bereft of leadership that it was forced to turn to the nearly 78-year-old former Prime Minister Billy Hughes as its new leader.
Fadden Government Although the UAP had been in government for a decade, Menzies' resignation revealed a party almost completely bereft of leadership.
However, the UAP came up only four seats short of a majority in its own right, putting Lyons in a strong enough position to form an exclusively UAP minority government supported by the Country Party.
Formation of the Liberal Party of Australia Soon after his return in 1944, Menzies concluded that the UAP was at the end of its useful life.
Government Politics Power & Policy, Woodward et al ISBN 0-582-81008-6 Menzies was convinced that the UAP was no longer viable, and a new anti-Labor party needed to be formed to replace it.