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The Australian Settlement was cemented in early Federal parliaments (Stokes in AJPS; Wikipedia). These measures in the early parliament cemented a system of tarifs and wages that satisfied the central impulse behind the protectionist party. Correspondingly, the two anti-Labor parties reformed themselves around anti-labor politics, rather than differentials amongst ruling class politics. Obviously this had to occur in a period of growing ALP parliamentary success. The period 1901 to 1920 saw a period of heightened class conflict in Australian society, and the ALP was the parliamentary beneficiary of this. cf: Connell & Irving (1980) Class structure in Australian History