Billy Hughes Nationalist Stanley Bruce Nationalist/Country coalition The 1922 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 16 December 1922.

At this election, Hughes as the sitting prime minister made his second seat transfer, in this case, from Bendigo to North Sydney.

Country Party leader Earle Page used the situation to his advantage, bargaining for concessions and refusing to guarantee support for confidence motions.

[3][4] Charlton and the ALP presented "policies of national development under a unified government with regional devolution of powers, tariff protection and limited immigration".

[7] His speech was critical of Hughes, alleging broken promises and describing the prime minister as having "total disregard of the financial position of the country".