The revelations of the Petrov Affair had several implications upon the Australian social and political spheres. It ensured victory for the coalition, both in the failures in Evatt (namely, his conspiracy theories) and the Labor party (the split, 1955) and the defection of the Petrov’s, giving credibility into the investigations of the Royal Commission. The split of the Labour party resulted in a seperation into two divisions, the ALP (Australian Labour Party) and the DLP (Democratic Labor Party, conservative Catholic, anti-communist). The Liberal party exploited the communist threat and gained consecutive government power up until 1972.
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