Australian Federation Party
https://ausfedparty.com.au/
* The new evolution of the Country Alliance, who I quite liked in the past but they seem to have
changed focus a lot. Digging deeper it seems that this might be because the former chairman of the
now dead Family First party, Peter Harris, is playing a major role with them. I didn't like
Family First, particularly on their climate change denial and their christian conservative stances
such as anti-abortion. In between he's apparantly been doing all the COVID-19 anti-vaxxer circles
(
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/11/19/stop-the-bill-anti-vaccine-ruby-janssen-peter-harris/), which
looks pretty bad as well.
* The old party focused on rural and regional Australia while pursuing a centreist path seems indeed
to have been replaced with something of a reborn Family First party.
* They are now pushing for a more direct democracy approach to governance, holding monthly town hall
meetings, and an expectation that sitting party members will prioritise feeback from that above
party policy, which is nice in principle.
* The home page goes on to become a platform for rants about false claims and "totalitarian policies"
from the government in reaction to COVID-19. The anti-vaxxer influence is very evident.
* They also claim to best support Christian values out of all the parties.
* Frankly, even though officially this is the same part that was called the Australian Country
Party at the last election, I think it's really a continuation of the Family First party and
little more.
* They want a bill of rights in Australia - like the US. I would just cause trouble, I say.
The country party seems to have been hijacked by this Peter Harris to create a spin-off of Family
First. Their right-wing christion concertativism really isn't my thing. The prioritisation of
listening to the constituency over voting by party lines is nice, but in practice I wonder whether
anti-vaxxer type groups are the only ones they'll really be listening to anyway. Not for me.
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