[3] Its leader, William Irvine, soon replaced Premier Peacock in June and went on to win the 1902 Victorian state election in October.
In July 1904, the Catholic newspaper The Advocate reported that "The National Citizens' Reform League had its birth in Kyabram.
It exercised a great influence in its brief day, but to-day it is, for most practical purposes, as dead as Julius Caesar.
The two groups merged to form a united Liberal Party in mid-February 1907[9] in the leadup to the 1907 Victorian state election in March.
An August 1907 article in the Punch of Melbourne noted that while its philosophy lived on, the National Citizen's Reform League had not.