Citizens Electoral Council

Establishment date:	1988
Place of foundation:
Chairman :	Craig Isherwood
Home address:	595 Sydney Rd Coburg, VIC 3058
Website:	http://www.cecaust.com.au/
E-mail address:	[e-mail]

The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC) is a small party in Australia . The party is chaired by Craig Isherwood .

history

The CEC was originally intended to be part of the Australian League of Rights , an extreme right-wing organization led by Eric Butler . CEC party candidate Trevor Perrett won the seat of the Barambah district in Queensland after former Prime Minister Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen stepped down from the state parliament in 1987. A little later he joined the Australian National Party . The CEC was taken over in 1996 by members of the LaRouche movement.

Ironically, the leaders of the Australian League of Rights are now regularly warned about the CEC.

The party leader is Craig Isherwood , National Secretary and Treasurer, from Melbourne , who has run three times as a candidate for the CEC. There are also other right-wing party supporters in his family. So is u. a. Noelene Isherwood National Party Manager.

Ideology and party platform

The CEC has many different approaches to campaigning. Among other things, one has turned to the election campaign issue of the left, which called for a national bank that is cheap for the citizens. Similar to the left-wing groups, the Citizens Electoral Council seeks to repeal all laws against Australian trade unions since 1996. Among other things, the party advocates a zero tolerance strategy with regard to drug-related crime; there is also a controversy within the party about global warming . CEC activists turned a televised debate about climate change into a lecture on eugenics and its racial ideology, thus proving their unteachability.

The following are the 13 key points of the party program:

• the establishment of a Bretton Woods system (world currency)
• the introduction of a national bank and several state banks
• the elimination of all anti-union laws
• the elimination of the anti-terrorism law of 2004, which, in the opinion of the CEC, destroys civil rights
• stop the privatization of state assets and regulators
• an immediate moratorium on legal exclusions from family farms
• an end to the politics of national competition
• the abolition of property and service taxes
• regaining control of Australia's oil and gas resources, as well as other natural resources
• a "dramatic expansion" of public health facilities
• a "dramatic expansion" of the federal and state infrastructure
• a "real" war on drugs
• the introduction of strict immigration quotas

The CEC sees itself as a continuation of the social democratic policies allegedly rejected by the Australian Labor Party in the mid-1970s .

criticism

In a short communication, the anti-defamation commission B'nai B'rith has judged the foundations of the party as anti-Semitic, anti-gay, directed against the indigenous population and racist.

Election results

The 2001 federal elections ended in disaster for the party, which in New South Wales only had 2,370 of the possible 3.8 million. Votes received. Despite large financial promises and an extensive TV election campaign and several million dollars in the backburner, the CEC also performed poorly in the 2004 federal elections. In the House of Representatives, the party only got 34,177 votes, which was a measly 0.35% of all votes.

And also in the most recent federal elections in 2007, the party failed across the board with only 27,879 votes or 0.22% in the lower house and 8,677 votes or 0.07% in the upper house. Both results were 0.14% worse than in the last election in 2004. In the Northern Territory , the party achieved a minor success with 2.01%. A quarter of all nationwide votes for the CEC could be won here. Although the Australian Democrats have been overtaken in favor of the electorate, the votes required at the territory level are significantly higher than at the state level.

Youth movement

The CEC oversees the Australian LaRouche Youth Movement (ALYM) . The party lets its youth movement train how to proceed in elections, such as canvassing for votes and aggressive advertising. The members are mostly found in Melbourne , where the party is headquartered. In internal cadre schools, the young people should be attuned to the ideology of the party and prepared for future elections.

Web links

• Off. Homepage
• Br. Anti-Defamation Commission
• Anti-Defamation Commission: "The LaRouche Cult: The Citizens Electoral Council (PDF; 87 kB)
• Retort to the Anti-Defamation Council by CEC (PDF) (669 kB)
• The (Victoria) Age: "Fascist Australia" (about CEC)
• Green Left Weekly: "Beware of the Citizen's Electoral Council!"
• Australian Electoral Commission website
• CEC page on Australian Electoral Commission website
• Catholic News reports charges of CEC infiltration of the National Civic Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2006 Queensland Election. Nanango Electorate Profile. Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC)
2. ^ Point 2 - Establishment of a National Credit Banking Scheme
3. ^ Australian Democrats - Australian Democrats Press Releases
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