The Australia First Party (AFP) was a minor political party in Australia. The party's policies were nationalist and anti-immigration/multiculturalism. ^[1] The AFP is not a registered political party with the Australian Electoral Commission, has never had parliamentary representation and has not contested a federal election since 1998. Diane Teasdale (born in 1948) is the president of the Australia First Party (AFP). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Location of Shepparton in Victoria (red) Shepparton is the fifth largest city in Victoria, Australia. ... Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolizing French nationalism during the July Revolution 1830. ... A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... AEC logo The Australian Electoral Commission, or the AEC, is the federal government agency in charge of organising and supervising federal elections. ...

History

The Australia First Party was founded in June 1996 by Graeme Campbell, who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, from 1980 until he was expelled from the party in November 1995. Campbell had become increasingly critical of the policies of the Labor government of Paul Keating, particularly in matters relating to economic deregulation, Aboriginal land rights and multiculturalism. Graeme Campbell is an Australian politician. ... ALP redirects here. ... Type Lower house Speaker of the House David Hawker, Liberal since November 16, 2004 Members 150 Political groups ALP (85) Liberal Party (53) National Party (10) Last elections 24 November 2007 Meeting place Parliament House, Canberra, ACT Web site House of Representatives Entrance to the House of Representatives Judicial High... Kalgoorlie may refer to the following geographically related places: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, a city and council in Western Australia; Division of Kalgoorlie, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives located around the geographical area; Electoral district of Kalgoorlie, an electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. ... Slogan or Nickname: Wildflower State or the Golden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2005-06)  - Product ($m)  $107,910 (4th)  - Product per capita  $53,134/person... For other persons named Paul Keating, see Paul Keating (disambiguation). ... Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ... The term multiculturalism generally refers to a state of both cultural and ethnic diversity within the demographics of a particular social space. ...

Campbell hoped to see the AFP became a serious political party, drawing on a current of populist opinion which rejected the policies of both the Labor Party and the opposition Liberal Party.^{[citation needed]} Many of the AFP's members came from the disbanded Australian Conservative Party^{[citation needed]}. The AFP however was overshadowed by the appearance in 1997 of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a rival populist party led by an independent MP, Pauline Hanson. This article is about the modern Australian political party. ... The Australian Conservative Party is another name for the early Australian political British Tories. ... Not to be confused with the One Nation program of infrastructure works carried out from 1991 to 1996 by the Keating Labor Government. ... Pauline Hanson at a book signing, 2007 Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe; born May 27, 1954) is an Australian politician and former leader of the One Nation Party, a party with a populist, anti-immigration platform. ...

Following Campbell's resignation in June 2001, Diane Teasdale became the national president of the Australia First Party, but at the national level the party had not been very active 2001-2004 (it did not contest the 2001 election). Diane Teasdale (born in 1948) is the president of the Australia First Party (AFP). ...

In 2002, a new AFP branch was formed in Sydney. The party announced the formation of a new "nationalist youth organisation", the Patriotic Youth League. This body's website suggests that it is affiliated to the British National Party, a far-right political group in the United Kingdom. The phraseology at the AFP website, such as "the politics of New World Order liberal-globalist-capitalism", also suggests that the party has been revived by people of a more systematically extreme-right persuasion than was the case under Campbell's leadership. The Secretary of the Sydney Branch is Dr. Jim Saleam, a stalwart of the Australian far right who was convicted of organising a shotgun attack on the home of a local representative of the African National Congress in the late 1980s^[2]. Dr. Jim Saleam has maintained his innocence of the charge, claiming he was framed by politicised police, and his legal defence has been published on the internet.^[3] This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The Patriotic Youth League (PYL) is a patriotic youth organization in Australia whose members describe themselves as radical nationalists [1]. The PYL was founded in late 2002 by Stuart McBeth, a student at the University of Newcastle who was previously involved with the One Nation Party. ... The British National Party (BNP) is a white nationalist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, or radical right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitive position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... One World Government redirects here. ... Jim Saleam being interviewed at the Sydney Forum, August 2006 James Saleam (commonly referred to as Jim Saleam) (born in 1955) is an Australian far-right activist and former member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia in the early 1970s. ... For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). ... For political parties with similar names in other countries, see Northern Rhodesian African National Congress and Zambian African National Congress. ...

In August 2006 Peter Watson (Chairman of the Warwick branch) was expelled from the Party.

In April 2007 Darrin Hodges, chairman of the Sutherland Shire branch, was expelled from Australia First. Hodges went on to co-found the Australian Protectionist Party. The Sutherland Shire, is a Local Government Area in the Southern Sydney region of Sydney, Australia. ...

In August 2007 Jim Saleam (and several other prominent organisers) was expelled from Australia First. Jim Saleam then took control of the NSW membership and incorporated "Australia First Party (NSW)" and claims to have taken control of the former AFP Newcastle and Toowoomba branches, thus splitting the party into two separate groups. One controlled by Jim Saleam and the other by Diane Teasdale. [1]

Policies

According to their Murray Branch/National Office website, the Australia First Party had eight core policies:

• Ensure Australia retains full independence.
• Rebuild Australian manufacturing industries.
• Control foreign ownership.
• Reduce and limit immigration.
• Abolish multiculturalism
• Introduce Citizen's Initiated Referendums.
• Strengthen the family
• Strive to rebuild a united Australia.

Electoral performance

At the October 1998 federal election, Campbell lost his seat, polling only 22 percent of the vote in a seat he had represented for 18 years. The AFP failed to win significant support elsewhere, being heavily outvoted by One Nation. In June 2001, Campbell left the AFP in order to stand (unsuccessfully) as a One Nation senate candidate in Western Australia. Federal elections were held in Australia on 3 October 1998. ...

The AFP did not contest the 2001 election. Federal elections were held in Australia on 10 November 2001. ...

The AFP website says that the party fielded candidates in the 2004 local council elections in Sydney, Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. But the real extent of the AFP's organisation and membership is not known. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... For the state electoral district, see Electoral district of Coffs Harbour. ...

In November 2005, AFP president Diane Teasdale stood in the elections for the Shepparton Council Office and received 1373 first preference votes, representing 4.37% of valid votes cast^[4]. Shepparton is a country town located in Victoria, Australia. ...

In November 2006, Adelaide AFP representative Bruce Preece was elected as Councillor for the St John's Wood Ward of the City of Prospect.^[5][6] Preece is the first AFP representative since Campbell to be elected into any level of Government. For other uses, see Adelaide (disambiguation). ... Logo of the City of Prospect The City of Prospect is an inner urban local government area (LGA) in Adelaide, South Australia. ...

Most recently, AFP representative John Moffat contested the Electorate of Cronulla in Sydney during the 2007 New South Wales elections as an independent and received 968 votes, representing 2.8% of valid votes cast.[2] Cronulla is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... Elections for the 54th Parliament of New South Wales were held on Saturday, 24 March 2007. ...

Activities

• On 8 October 2005, up to fifteen AFP members (including Sydney AFP Secretary Jim Saleam) rallied outside Kirribilli House to protest against the suspension of Professor Andrew Fraser of Macquarie University.
• December 11, 2005 the Sydney AFP branch, along with the PYL, distributed pamphlets, stickers and allegedly alcohol^[7] at the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla where an estimated 5000 people had gathered to protest against^[8] harassment by Lebanese gangs. SBS World News on December 13, 2005 reported that Jim Saleam had organised around 150 members and sympathisers to attend the rally.
• Several AFP members returned to Cronulla the following month during the Australia Day festivities to further their campaign.^[9]

• Australia First supporters handed out leafets at the rally in Melbourne on 28 June 2006 protesting against the Howard Government's industrial relations laws. The leaflets focussed almost entirely on the issue of "foreign workers" being brought into Australia and "undermining the wages of Australian workers". The leaflet gave post office box addresses in Croydon and Shepparton as contact points, and also gave two party websites

• 7 October 2006 - Over a dozen members of the Sutherland Shire branch of the AFP rallied outside the office of Cook MP Bruce Baird to highlight their opposition to his liberal views on refugee and asylum seeker policy. The AFP described the rally as the start of a campaign to "reclaim Australia and defend people's rights".^[10]

• In January 2007 Australia First supporters distributed 2500 leaflets in Tamworth New South Wales claiming refugees spread crime and disease. This was in response to the council's decision to approve a refugee program that would resettle up to five Sudanese families in the area. The council had initially rejected the program. ^[11]

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Racism allegations

In 2006, The Australian newspaper carried a story on the group by Dan Box, who spent some time in the party without revealing that he was a reporter. Box alleged an Australia First member told him that "we leaned out of the window and shouted 'Sieg heil! Sieg heil!" at a rabbi.^[12] The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Sieg Heil is a German phrase, which literally means Hail [to] Victory. ...

Australia First also endorsed candidate John Moffat, who was criticised by B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Michael Lipshutz, Cronulla Liberal MP Malcolm Kerr and Lebanese Muslim Association spokesman Jihad Dib for "inciting racial hatred", risking undermining the local area's reputation with “ridiculous” claims about the Lebanese community, and unhelpful "divisive ideologies" respectively.^[13] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Cronulla is a beach suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... This article is about the modern Australian political party. ... Malcolm John Kerr MP is an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ... The Lebanese Moslems Association is an Australian non-profit welfare organization based in Lakemba, a south-western suburb of Sydney. ...

See also

• Australia First Movement

Australia First Movement was a proto-fascist movement which grew out of the Rational Association and the Victorian Socialist Party. ...

References

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External links

• Murray Branch/National Office AFP Homepage
• AFP Melbourne branch