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Published: 02 December 2022

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Published: 01 December 2022

Weeks before the November 2010 Victoria State Election, I stood on the steps of Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne, with a few FamilyVoice supporters.

In a broad phalanx around us was every member of Victoria’s Liberal/National Coalition, led by Ted Baillieu - and every MP held a copy of FamilyVoice Australia’s Open Letter calling for the restoration of religious organisations’ right to employ people of the same ethos – a privilege removed by Brumby’s Labor government.

That day, the Coalition declared that, if elected, they would amend Equal Opportunity laws and restore religious rights. Soon after, Ted Baillieu announced that the Coalition would preference the Greens last.

These two factors swung conservative voters and provided the Liberal/Nationals with a narrow election win.

Contrast Matthew Guy’s 2022 election campaign and the Liberal Party’s devastating loss (again) to Labor. It was the Liberals’ election to lose. Daniel Andrews’ government had overseen the longest Covid lockdowns in the world, Hotel Quarantine failure and the loss of 801 lives, a bigger debt than NSW, Queensland and Tasmania combined, partial collapse of the health system, the Suburban Rail Loop declared an “extravagant waste of public money,” and four matters under investigation by IBAC (Anti-Corruption Commission).

Labor had shocked Christian conservatives with extreme abortion laws, euthanasia, removed faith-based organisations’ right to employ according to ethos, introduced gender change on birth certificates, criminalized counselling or prayer for those seeking gender or sexual help, and pushed ahead with gender and sexual ideology curriculum from kinder to year 12.

Matthew Guy, following the imprudent example of other Liberal parties also suffering crushing defeats in Western Australia, South Australia and federally, deserted conservatives.

He promised funding for legal aid to the LGBTIQ lobby, banned Renee Heath from the party room for her Christian beliefs, suggested to Islamic groups that he would revisit Equal Opportunity laws but failed to make it a policy announcement, and ejected staunch conservative Bernie Finn from the party.

Guy failed to hit back at the relentless Labor push to impose its socialist ideology agenda, laws suppressing religious organisations and the church, the “climate emergency” debacle and soaring energy prices, and life issues.

Liberals around Australia have become “Labor-lite” in a fruitless endeavor to build their support base among left-wing voters, failing to realize that left wing voters will always choose the real thing – Labor or the Greens.

There is some good news in Victoria: Family First Party, led by fearless Christian Lyle Shelton polled better than all other minor parties, and at least five, perhaps more, of the Christian upper house candidates strongly promoted by FamilyVoice are on track to be elected, doubling, or tripling the number of Christians in parliament.

One can only hope that the new Victorian Liberal leader, and Liberal leaders around the country realize that the only hope the Coalition have, to ever govern is to move significantly to the right.

Peter Stevens is FamilyVoice Victoria State Director

Published: 28 November 2022

How NT MPs voted on the Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill 2022 which further restricts religous freedom.

Published: 09 November 2022

FamilyVoice Australia is cautioning South Australian legislators against giving one section of society “better parliamentary and executive access” than everyone else in the community.

FamilyVoice Australia is concerned that the principle of equal democratic representation would be undermined if the First Nations Voice to Parliament proposal gives one section of society parliamentary and executive access beyond that enjoyed by other groups, according to FamilyVoice Australia spokesman David d’Lima.

“We want prosperity to come to everyone in South Australia, including our Aboriginal people, but we also want to preserve equality within the democratic process,” he said.

“It’s totally unfair if one group in society has special access to Parliament and to the ministry.”

According to FamilyVoice spokesman David d’Lima, FamilyVoice has long sought the highest good of all South Australians and connects regularly with Indigenous people to encourage their hopes for the future.

“We seek the highest good of everyone, but in a manner that is democratic and fair,” he said.

“A further difficulty with the proposal is that it would set a precedent for other groups to demand special access.

“Parliament through its enquiry and committee process already provides excellent opportunities for groups seeking to make their case, and no change to legislation is required to better assist the needs of the community.”