Why does this remind me of the scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian?

"DEADLY DIRK: Campaign for Free Galilee.

FRANCIS: Oh. Uh, People's Front of Judea. Officials.

DEADLY DIRK: Oh.

FRANCIS: What's your group doing here?

DEADLY DIRK: We're going to kidnap Pilate's wife, take her back, issue demands.

FRANCIS: So are we.

DEADLY DIRK: What?

FRANCIS: That's our plan!

DEADLY DIRK: We were here first!...

DEADLY DIRK: You bastards! We've been planning this for months.

FRANCIS: Well, tough titty for you, Fish Face...

C.F.G. and P.F.J. fight

BRIAN: Brothers! Brothers! We should be struggling together!

FRANCIS: We are!...

BRIAN: We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy!

EVERYONE: The Judean People's Front?!

BRIAN: No, no! The Romans!

EVERYONE: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes."

Fascinating article Bernard and obviously very well researched. It would be amazing to rid the Senate of the 'fairies at the bottom of the garden'. Hopefully those parties listen to you!

The Sex Party and HEMP far left? What drivel.

Left wing parties want to control your money. Right wing parties want to control your private life. Get it right.

I’ll let the new DLP, the one with the “u” in “Labour”, speak for itself on religion, but the original DLP, the one with “Labor” in its name, was not a religious party at all. It is true that its membership was largely Catholic, but it was a social democratic party that took people of all faiths and none.

It was the first parliamentary party to call for the end of the White Australia policy, it ran a campaign for prison reform, it supported unions, and it argued for substantial class size reductions, as also supported by the public sector teacher unions, as early as 1967.

It was environmentally aware long before the creation of the Greens, advocating the “protection and conservation of our natural environment and the planned use of natural resources in recognition of the close relationship between man and nature and the finite nature of the earth’s resources”.

The DLP voted to disband in 1978. The current DLP was created by the people who did not accept the decision to disband.

The current DLP is not the same party and has some attitudes that are contrary to those of the original DLP. The new DLP’s opposition to land rights (“No land rights for ‘nomadic’ people: MP”, The Age, 16/9/2010) would break the hearts of those active in the original DLP, especially that of the late Ben Nona, the DLP candidate for Cook in the 1972 Queensland election, a Torres Strait Islander and a representative on the National Aboriginal Conference. Frank Dowling, the DLP leader, went to the 1973 state election calling not only for land rights for Aborigines, not only for negotiation on royalties, but also for the protection of their scared sites (“Plan for a Better Victoria”).

The current DLP has done preference deals with One Nation and the Citizens Electoral Council, something the original DLP would never have done.

Chris Curtis
(Vice President, Victorian Branch, Democratic Labor Party, 1976-78)

"Finally, on border protection, the minor Christian alliance should be a thorn in the side of the Liberals. It is the biggest political issue of all, and Australians simply want to see the boats stopped"

If the Author believes this is the biggest issue for Christ-stain voters then the church is in an even worst state then I thought.

'Because while these parties are filled with good people who have good intent, collectively, they are not very good at politics.'

Could not agree more Bernard. You can see how the Greens with such a small number believing their fantasies influence policy so much largely due to a godless press.