Editing Unity Party (Australia) (section)

===Decline===
As the Hanson movement began to disintegrate, it also negated Unity's main platform, and the party soon fell into internal tensions. The party's founder, Dr. [[Peter Wong (Australian politician)|Peter Wong]], won a seat in the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]] with just 1% of the vote. This came against the backdrop of a series of resignations, including that of Li. Wong soon stepped down as leader in favour of a [[white people|white]] Australian in an attempt to broaden the party's base.

Unity's activities largely died down throughout 2000 and Wong acted as a virtual independent in the Legislative Council. However, with the re-emergence of Hanson's [[One Nation (Australia)|One Nation]] party at the [[2001 Western Australian state election]], the party again came together and put together a large slate of candidates for the federal election that year. Despite having several prominent candidates (such as former [[Melbourne City Council]] member [[Wellington Lee]] in Victoria), they fell even further short of winning a seat in either house of federal parliament.

After their failure to break into federal parliament in 2001, Unity largely shifted its attentions to local government, running a number of candidates for local councils in largely non-white areas, primarily in suburban Sydney. It was deregistered by the AEC on 13 November 2003 for failing to have at least 500 members as required by electoral law.<ref name=aec/> The party did not run any candidates in the [[2004 Australian federal election|2004 federal election]].

Wong continued to represent Unity in the NSW Parliament, until the expiry of his term in March 2007. At the March [[2007 New South Wales state election|2007 NSW state election]], lead Unity Upper House candidate, Le Lam, won 1.2% of the vote, which was insufficient to gain election. Consequently, Unity no longer holds seats in any Australian parliament.

The party did not contest the [[2011 New South Wales state election|2011 NSW state election]], although [[Pauline Hanson]] did.

The party contested one [[New South Wales Legislative Assembly]] seat ([[Electoral district of Kogarah|Kogarah]]) in the [[2015 New South Wales state election|2015 state election]], receiving 7.9% of the vote.

At the [[2024 New South Wales local elections]], a new party, [[Australia Multinational Unity Inc]] (also known simply as "Unity"), contested [[Municipality of Burwood|Burwood]], [[City of Canterbury Bankstown|Canterbury Bankstown]] and [[City of Ryde|Ryde]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Australia Multinational Unity Inc |url=https://www.ausunity.org/ |website=AusUnity.org |publisher=Australia Multinational Unity Inc |access-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823072049/https://www.ausunity.org/ |archive-date=23 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=2024 Election |url=https://lukelaw.info/2024-election/ |website=LukeLaw.info |publisher=LU Guitang |access-date=23 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240823071856/https://lukelaw.info/2024-election/ |archive-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>