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	Family First Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Family First is opposed to euthanasia, holding the view that "the duty of health carers is to promote health, relieve suffering and safeguard life".
		Family First opposes gay adoptions, IVF treatment for gay couples, and does not acknowledge gay civil unions (currently, same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Australia), stating their affirmation of marriage as "a union of a man and a woman"[8].
		Family First believes that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong because diplomatic avenues had not been exhausted, but that having participated in that invasion Australia is now obliged to protect Iraqis and Australians in Iraq through a military presence[18].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_First_Party (1861 words)

	John Quiggin: Family First
		Family First acknowledges that industrial relations outcomes must reflect what is just and fair for all parties concerned in the light of economic constraints at the level of the enterprise and the wider economy.
		Family First believes that the system of Awards, Australian Workplace Agreements and Enterprise Bargaining generally meets the needs of Australian workplaces but acknowledges that many Australian workers are missing out on adequate conditions because of their casual or outworker status or because they are in unregulated and low paid industries.
		Family First recognises that a level of empowerment and certainty for employees in regard to hours worked and the scheduling of work is of fundamental importance to achieving this balance.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/002017.html (3503 words)

	Right-wing Christian party may gain the balance of power in Australian Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A central feature of Family First’s campaign in Victoria, for example, was not bans on abortion or gay marriage, which were deliberately kept in the background, but opposition to tolls on a new freeway in the state capital Melbourne.
		Family First preys upon the widespread fears and insecurities generated by growing social inequality and economic uncertainty and seeks to divert these sentiments along the reactionary path of religious fundamentalism.
		Family First selected a number of Pentecostal church pastors or their close relatives to run over 120 candidates for seats in the House of Representative and Senate.
	wsws.org /articles/2004/oct2004/fafi-o16.shtml (1669 words)

	John Quiggin » Family First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Family First sees the present Industrial Relations System as a realistic accommodation, generally, between the needs and desires for workplace flexibility, on the one hand, and requirements for safety, certainty, equity and justice for both employers and employees.
		Family First recognises the need to accommodate competing interests and rights along with principals of natural justice, procedural fairness and the rights of all workers to receive a just wage whilst the entrepreneur receives a just profit.
		Family First is in favour of “business” sorting out the economy, and thus seem fairly likely to side with Howard’s gleeful attacks on workers and the only representation they get - unions.
	johnquiggin.com /index.php/archives/2004/10/12/family-first (3407 words)

	Family First, Faith Second (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Family First began then in South Australia with 4.1% of the vote in the upper house in 2002.
		Following their first appearance on a national political level, Family First has had a real impact, considering that their primary vote was 1.8% in Victoria.
		Is it a Christian-based party, or is it a secular party?
	www.cdp.org.au /fed/lamb/column/0411.asp (1580 words)

	Family First weighs in on key issues - Election 2004 - www.smh.com.au
		Family First would consider the impact key issues such as the full sale of Telstra and cross-media ownership could have on Australian families if it won a senate seat, party president Andrea Mason said today.
		Family First - with links to the Assemblies of God Church - is firming as the favourite to pick up a Senate seat in Victoria, and could end up effectively holding the balance of power in the Senate from July next year.
		The party's Victorian Senate candidate Steven Fielding yesterday said Family First was not a puppet of any other political party, but that if a policy was good for families he would vote for it.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/11/1097406459485.html (488 words)

	Adelaide IMC: newswire/7208
		Family Last the Evangelical Assemblies of God Church have made it known that this is the home of the "religious right wing fanatics" who firmly believe and base their philosophy on having lots of $$$$$$$ money to be able to change the world.
		Family First is a narrow-based, church party with a religious agenda and seeking to disguise itself as a broad-based, socially conservative party.
		It then quotes Family First Senate candidate Joan Woods proclaiming: "The time has come to influence our nation and change the course of history by being a member of the Family First Party." Joan Woods' husband Ian is the President of the NSW Assemblies of God.
	www.adelaide.indymedia.org.au /newswire/display/7208/index.php (1426 words)

	Family First Party - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Family First Party rose to fame during the 2004 Federal Elections, mainly because they proposed fresh, new solutions to all of societies problems that had previously seemed unsolvable.
		Aside from burning, the Family First Party also has a wide variety of other means of overcoming society's problems, including waving crucifixes, splashing holy water and praying.
		While evidence in support of the effectiveness of these practices has not yet come to light the Family First Party remains adamant that poverty, racism and violence can all be overcome by their unorthodox methods.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Family_First_Party (474 words)

	signposts.org.au » Blog Archive » Financials First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		First, there is the fact that Lance points out that they have distanced themselves from any association with the church, but in a whole range of ways are a primarily christian political party.
		But the real issue is that the party was not established to represent the Assembly of God Church, it wasn’t established to represent spiritual issues, it was established to represent the broader needs of family issues in society as we saw them as being important in terms of them trending downwards.
		Family First promises to strongly lobby against the following issues in the upcoming Parliamentary session: euthanasia, pokies, legalisation of prostitution, religious vilification laws and the legalisation of marijuana.
	www.signposts.org.au /2006/02/04/financials-first (3298 words)

	Family First Party: Evangelical right's successful entry into federal politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While the party was upfront in its opposition to gay marriage, the rank and file tell it like it is. A campaign worker in Dayboro in Queensland answered “yes” to a question about whether lesbians should be burned to death as witches.
		Liberal candidate Ingrid Tall was not given Family First preferences in the seat of Brisbane in a rare break of solidarity between the right-wing parties.
		The religion of the Family First Party is based on the “fire and brimstone” concepts common to all fundamentalist religious sects.
	www.agitprop.org.au /nowar/20041013_bb_evangelical_right.php (703 words)

	Moslem party seeks Islamic law f (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		THE leader of the nation's first Moslem political party says all Australians should be living under Islamic law dictated by the Koran.
		The new party had almost 200 members but needed 500 to register federally, which was the goal, he said.
		The emergence of the Family First Party had showed him that there was a role for religious-based parties.
	www.falange.us /sharia922.htm (464 words)

	Another view of Family First (letter) - 27 May 2006
		McManus suggests that, with the Australian Democrats and the Greens seemingly in decline, Family First might be the party to fill the "resulting political vacuum".
		Family First currently holds two seats in the South Australian parliament and one seat in the Federal Parliament; the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) holds two seats in the NSW parliament.
		Family First's Senator Steve Fielding holds his Senate seat in Federal Parliament with a primary vote of 1.88 per cent - which happens to be the exact equivalent percentage to the primary vote gained by the CDP Senate candidate in Western Australia at the same election.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2006may27_l1.html (835 words)

	Family First vote doubles in state \| PerthNow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The result surpasses Family First's 1.9 per cent of first preferences in Victoria at the 2004 federal election, and it all came at the expense of Labor's primary vote, which fell by about 3.5 per cent.
		Family First Victorian leader Cameron Eastman said the result was encouraging as it gave families a stance on issues that mattered to them.
		Mr Eastman said families had responded to its campaign that was based on promoting the importance of the home unit and values that helped build a future generation of successful and happy children.
	www.news.com.au /perthnow/story/0,21598,20823361-5005361,00.html (397 words)

	Family First Media Release - Internet Filtering \| Alternative News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Family First believes that the current focus on penalties being increased, as proposed by the NSW State Government, is welcomed but will not stop the problem of thousands of children across the country being abused.
		Family First has regularly championed the cause of greater child protection, and is the only party in the SA parliament to introduce the legislation to enable police to charge child abusers beyond the previously imposed statute of limitations.
		The Family First proposal is similar to the policy already in place for adult 1900 numbers, where people wishing to use the services must first apply.
	us.altnews.com.au /drop/node/view/1037 (887 words)

	DogfightAtBankstown: family first
		South Australian bloggers like Gary and I are familiar with the Family First party as they have a senator in the South Australian Legislative Assembly.
		The Family First candidates are required to have some leadership experience in the community.
		Although the party highlights the fact that it is not a "religious party", its platform of policies supports the implementation of Christian principles that address the ethics of family life and "non-destructive" issues about which many parties and politicians seem unconcerned.
	dogfightatbankstown.typepad.com /blog/2004/09/south_australia.html (2207 words)

	Recount on cards after assault claim \| Vic \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Police are investigating an assault on a candidate at a polling booth and threats made against another in the outer northeastern Melbourne seat of Eltham, in which Labor increased its margin.
		Family First's Shane Porter said he was king hit as he gave out how-to-vote cards on Saturday.
		The Family First party executive is expected to discuss the incident in the next week and could lodge a formal complaint with the Victorian Electoral Commission, contesting the result.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,20832560^5006785,00.html (464 words)

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	(Family First) UNDEMOCRATIC LABELLING? \| Alternative News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Family First Party leaders today expressed disappointment at the unfair labelling of its party in the media and the personal scrutiny being applied to individual candidates.
		Lead Queensland Senate candidate, John Lewis, said that the labelling of the party bordered on slander and that the level of scrutiny being applied to individual candidates' religious beliefs was both un-Australian and undemocratic.
		Family First Party has witnessed an amazing groundswell of support from voters across Australia since former Assemblies of God president, Andrew Evans, was elected to the South Australian senate in February 2002.
	us.altnews.com.au /drop/node/view/987 (889 words)

	Who else could make Howard look like a leftie? - Election 2004 - www.smh.com.au
		The lead Senate candidate for the Family First party, John Lewis, expects a lot from John Howard in exchange for a preference deal done with the Liberals.
		You do wonder, given what has lately come to light about Family First, the religious party which denies it is one, although almost everyone in it belongs to the fundamentalist Assemblies of God AOG churches.
		And the lead Senate candidate in Queensland, John Lewis, in an angry press release, said suggestions in the media that Family First was an offshoot of the Assemblies Of God "bordered on slander".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/03/1096741902725.html (567 words)

	CANBERRA OBSERVED: Family First senator throws down gauntlet - 27 August 2005
		Senator Fielding said that while families in Australia had become materially richer, they were also experiencing huge social problems, including high divorce and suicide rates, increased illicit-drug use, increased obesity and insecurity and uncertainty about the roles of parents and children.
		Among the "controversial" calls from Senator Fielding in his first speech to the Parliament was for a return to the norm of the eight-hour working-day and official re-recognition of a basic family wage.
		Senator Fielding has put the government and the electorate on notice that his fledgling party is serious about policies which support and nurture families and family life.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005aug27_co.html (896 words)

	Family First Gives PM a Wake-Up Call On Family Law Reform
		On Friday, 24th March, 2006, Steve Fielding, Senator for Family First, indicated that he would table a desperately needed amendment to the current Family Law Bill to include a 'presumption of equal parenting time', as a starting point for child custody arrangements.(2)
		Whether it succeeds or fails, the Family First amendment to the Family Law Bill will have a resounding impact, and not simply on the families going through separation, but in the minds of every parent and grand-parent come election time.
		Legislation amendment to existing Family Law Act to enact a rebuttable presumption that maximising the parenting time and the involvement which each parent is willing and able to contribute in raising their child is in the child’s best interests.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/3/emw364698.htm (456 words)

	The World Today - Gay rights activists concerned over growing influence of Family First party in SA
		There's a fierce contest between the Greens, Democrats, Independents and Family First for at least one seat in the Upper House.
		Family First State Leader Andrew Evans says the Relationships Bill, which lapsed, would need to be fundamentally changed before they would give it their support.
		NANCE HAXTON: Mr Evans says Family First believes that the rights of people who live together but not in a traditional relationship should also be recognised.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2006/s1572531.htm (980 words)

	The first party to be led by a Jew and a woman, so why not a homosexual? - Telegraph
		The first party to be led by a Jew and a woman, so why not a homosexual?
		As part of the wing trying to promote a more "inclusive" approach to politics, he was happy to admit to smoking cannabis during a rather "cheerful" time at university.
		He says: "We were the first party to have a Jewish leader, the first party to have a woman leader, so I could absolutely conceive of that happening.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/03/nmaud103.xml (1309 words)

	..:: Family First - Queensland ::..
		FAMILY FIRST Queensland is working hard to make sure that Queensland families and small businesses will have a dedicated voice in Canberra after this Federal election.
		FAMILY FIRST will also be announcing many more policies as the campaign unfolds.
		Family First proposed new laws in their Alcohol Toll Reduction Bill (2007) that requires health information labels on all alcohol products.
	www.familyfirstqld.org.au (508 words)

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