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Family First and the rise of Senator Bob Day : Comments

By Haydon Manning, published 17/4/2014

Day has an opportunity to shape FFP as the 'sensible' right of centre alternative for conservative voters disillusioned with the Abbott Government.

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Perhaps so!
But it seems to me that these three related references provide a profound critique of the one-dimensional world view that Bob Day promotes via his association with the heartless hollow men, with their heads stuffed full of straw, that infest the IPA and similar right wing propaganda outfits.
References which describe the profoundly negative anti-Spiritual nature of our so called culture.
http://www.coteda.com/fundamentals/index.html
http://www.dabase.org/p8realpolitik.htm
http://www.beezone.com/news.html
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 17 April 2014 9:02:03 AM
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Dear Daffy Duck,

Great alliteration! You don't seem daffy to me.
Posted by david f, Thursday, 17 April 2014 11:14:31 AM
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Your article misses so much it is hard to know where to start. FF is an unashamedly Christian party with candidates all active Christians in churches. This will of necessity limit its appeal to the mass of voters. It is the single brake on its growth and seeing how most candidates for the lower house are almost anyone who will stand that is not likely to change.

IM not saying that a Christian part is a bad idea but the idea that it will be a dominant force or a replacement for major parties is quite simply, the stuff of fantasy.
Posted by geofff, Friday, 18 April 2014 8:26:14 PM
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Bob Day may be slightly better than the rest (in fact I think he is), but even the best of politicians is still a politician and they should all be erased off the face of the earth.

Forget about this silly 19th-century divide between 'Left' and 'Right': If Bob and his party want my vote, all he needs is to allow me to ride a bicycle (without wearing a pot over my head) - In the next federal elections I will vote for whatever party that promises to stop interfering with this freedom of mine (and if there's more than one such party then I'll preference all those who will allow me to ride a bicycle above all others).
Posted by Yuyutsu, Sunday, 20 April 2014 12:22:28 PM
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Altogether a near-perfect analysis of how completely dysfunctional our Senate has become, when the manoeuverings and machinations of irrelevant groupuscules become significant factors in the government of our country.

It is indeed a race to the bottom, when the political flatulence of a tiny minority needs to be considered each time any legislation is contemplated.

We are rapidly becoming incapable of rejecting the bribery and blackmail - both financial and emotional - that allows these "parties" to have an impact in the first place.

Shame on us.
Posted by Pericles, Monday, 21 April 2014 11:58:24 AM
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Should known religious parties be barred
from standing for parliament and the senate.

What happened to the idea of secular government?

This kind of party could just as easily be a hindu
or a muslim or mormon group. do we really want religious
fundamentalists of any kind holding
the balance of power in the government.

It is not good enough to ban priests the law should also
cover known religious parties like family first.
Posted by CHERFUL, Monday, 21 April 2014 7:37:20 PM
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