Australia First Party
| Australia First Party | |
|---|---|
| Party leader | Diane Teasdale |
| founding | June 1996 |
| Headquarters | PO Box 6358 Shepparton , Vic 3632 |
| Alignment |
Right-wing nationalism |
The Australia First Party (AFP) was a small nationalist to right-wing extremist party in Australia . The party's policies were mainly directed against migration and multiculturalism . Most recently, the AFP was not registered with the Australian Electoral Commission and had not participated in any federal elections since 1998. In addition, she never managed to move into a parliament.
history
Foundation and representation in the House of Representatives until 1998
The Australia First Party was founded in June 1996 by Graeme Campbell , a former MP for the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and registered as a party in September 1996 by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Campbell had been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1980 , but his increasing criticism of the Labor government under Prime Minister Paul Keating (in particular its economic policy and multicultural immigration policy as well as Keating's positions on the land rights of the Aborigines ) led to his exclusion from the ALP in November 1995. After that Campbell was until his retirement from the House of Representatives in October 1998, despite his AFP membership as a party independent MP ( Independent performed).
Campbell founded the AFP in the hope that it would play a serious role in the Australian party system in the near future. With populist promises one tried to differentiate oneself from the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party . Many of the AFP members were previously in the disbanded Australian Conservative Party . In the 1998 parliamentary elections , Campbell lost his seat in parliament due to a sharp drop in votes, so the AFP was no longer represented in the House of Representatives. Graeme Campbell justified the poor election result by running the rival and also right-wing populist One Nation party , which was founded in 1997 by Pauline Hanson .
Activities after 1998
After Campbell's resignation in June 2001, Diane Teasdale became president of the Australia First Party, but the party has not appeared nationally since then and did not take part in the 2001 federal elections.
In 2002 a new group of the party was formed in Sydney . The party set out to create a new national youth organization, the Patriotic Youth League . Under the new leadership, the party moved to the far right and thus far further than it was ever under Campbell. The secretary of the branch in Sydney is Jim Saleam , who was accused of orchestrating an armed attack on a representative of the African National Congress in the mid-1980s . However, Jim Saleam sees himself as innocent and reveals this on his homepage.
In August 2004, the Australia First Party lost its registration as a political party with the Australian Electoral Commission because it had not nominated candidates for elections for four years.
In April 2007 Darrin Hodges (chairman of the AFP branch in Sutherland Shire) was expelled from the party due to internal differences and was subsequently co-founder of the right-wing populist Australian Protectionist Party in 2007 . In August 2007 the right-wing extremist nationalist Jim Saleam and some other prominent members were also excluded, Saleam subsequently took control of the "Australia First Party (NSW)" and other party offshoots in Australia, while Teasdale took control of Australia First State of Victoria retained.
In 2015 the successor party Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated (now led by Saleam) lost its registration again because it could not prove the required minimum number of 500 members, but achieved its re-registration in March 2016.
ideology
The AFP would like according to its own information
- Ensuring the full independence of Australia,
- Control of foreign property,
- Reducing and limiting immigration,
- Rejection of multiculturalism
- Implementation of referendums in the Australian political system.
In response to a possible settlement of Sudanese immigrants in the city of Tamworth , the party distributed leaflets warning that the migrants would bring violence, crime and disease to the city.
Election results
In the 1998 federal elections, Campbell lost his seat after getting only 22% of the vote in his constituency, despite having defended it for 18 years. The AFP failed all along the line and was ousted by One Nation . In June 2001 Campbell left the AFP to run for One Nation for a Senate seat in Western Australia - but here too he failed.
AFP did not take part in the 2001 federal elections after the poor results of previous years.
In recent years, various candidates in various areas have only run for elections at the regional level, but without convincing or gaining votes.
Relationship to right-wing extremism
In 2006, a reporter from The Australian who had gone undercover into the party revealed that the party had a large proportion of right-wing extremist members. Several members are said to have shouted " Sieg-Heil " for a Jewish rabbi .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Eight Core Policies of the Australia First Party . Australia First Party. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 16, 2006.
- ↑ http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/afp.htm Information on AFP on the AEC website
- ↑ http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/Federal_Elections/1996/members.htm List of members of the 38th Australian House of Representatives 1996
- ^ Andrew West: White separatist takes on Marrickville , The Sydney Morning Herald . February 29, 2004. Retrieved July 14, 2006.
- ↑ James Saleam : Pardon Me: The Anatomy of an Australian Political Trial . Australian Nationalist Ideological, Historical and Legal Archive. January 27, 1999. Retrieved October 20, 2006.
- ↑ http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/afp.htm
- ↑ Slackbastard.anarchobase.com
- ↑ http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/aust-1st.htm Deregistration on the AEC website
- ↑ http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/australia-first.htm
- ↑ ausfirst.alphalink.com.au : The Program Of The Australia First Party , in English, accessed June 19, 2013
- ↑ Val Colic-Peisker and Farida Tilbury: Being black in Australia: a case study of intergroup relations ( Memento of the original dated May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Race & Class . 49, No. 4, 2008, pp. 38-56. doi: 10.1177 / 0306396808089286
- ^ Dan Box: White supremacy in our backyard (Reprint), Fight Dem Back . March 4, 2006. Archived from the original on July 13, 2006 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 13, 2006.
Web links
- Murray Branch / National AFP homepage
- AFP in Melbourne
- First Australia's Internet TV
- Criticism of the AFP
- Aardvark History of Nationalism in Australia
