Australia First Party

The Australia First Party ( AFP) is a political party in Australia Post. The policy of the party was nationalist and was directed against migration and multiculturalism. Currently, the AFP is not registered with the Australian Electoral Commission and has participated in any federal election since 1998. Moreover, it never managed to move into a parliament.

History

The Australia First Party was founded in June 1996 by Graeme Campbell, a former member of the Australian Labor Party in the House of Representatives. He worked there until his expulsion in 1995 for his party. Campbell criticized more and more the Labor government of Paul Keating, said he did not agree with the economic policies, the right to land of the Aborigines and the ongoing migration.

Campbell founded the AFP in the hope that they would play a serious role in the Australian party system in the near future. With populist promises they tried to distance themselves from the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party. Many of the AFP members were previously in the disbanded Australian Conservative Party. The AFP, however, was made ​​in 1997 by One Nation, the party of Pauline Hanson, in the shade.

After Campbell's resignation in June 2001, Diane Teasdale President of the Australia First Party, but the party joined since then no longer national in appearance and did not participate in the federal elections of 2001.

In 2002, a new group of the party was founded in Sydney. The party took the right to create a new national youth organization, the Patriotic Youth League. Under the new leadership, the party moved to the far right outside and thus more clearly than was ever the case under Campbell. The Secretary of the offshoot in Sydney is Jim Saleam, who was accused to have the mid-1980s threaded an armed attack on a representative of the African National Congress .. Jim Saleam however, sees himself as innocent and this award is well on its homepage.

In April 2007, had to Darrin Hodges (branch in Sutherland Shire ) leave Australia First.

In August 2007, Jim Saleam and other prominent organizers were excluded because of their right- wing slogans from Australia First. Jim Saleam finally took control of "Australia First Party (NSW) " and more Party branches in Australia, which the party has split into two groups, the one controlled by Diane Teasdale, on the other hand by Jim Saleam.

Ideology

The AFP would like claims to

• The complete independence of Australia's secure,
• Can control other people's property,
• Reduce and limit immigration,
• Do not let the multiculturalism arise and
• Setting citizen referendums.

In response to a possible settlement of Sudanese immigrants in the town of Tamworth, the party distributed flyers with the warning that the migrants would bring violence, crime and disease in the city.

Election results

In the federal elections of 1998 Campbell lost because he got only 22 % of the vote of his constituency, his seat, although he had defended him for 18 years. The AFP failed all along the line and was booted out of One Nation. In June 2001, Campbell left the AFP to stand as a candidate for One Nation for a Senate seat in Western Australia - but again he failed.

In recent years, more diverse candidates in various fields in elections only at the regional level to, without, however, to convince and to make good voices.

Racism

In 2006, it was announced through a hidden occurred in the party reporter of The Australian that there is a large proportion of members with extreme right-wing sentiment in the party. Thus, several members should have placed calls, inter alia, a Jewish Rabbi " Sieg Heil ".