Our next Small God is in fact a believer in a Big God, the christian God to be exact. There are a number of parties claiming to represent christians in this election, amongst them Fred Niles Christian Democratic Party, Family First and the Australian Christians. All of them bringing their own particular idea of what a political party based on Christian values would look like.
Party Information
Name: Rise Up Australia
Website: http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/
Founder: Daniel Nalliah
Number of Candidates – HoR: 77
Number of Candidates – Senate: 16
Description:
The Rise Up Australia view of what a good christian party looks like is very interesting. It’s a mix of fire and brimstone fundamentalist christianity and the sort of nationalistic call back to the 1950s protectionism that made Pauline Hanson famous.
The Rise Up Australia policy platform is a little haphazard but I think it can be summarised into the following sentence:
“Australia was once great but then we started this multicultural nonsense and oh we stopped making things and the gays got all uppity and we let all these muslims in and don’t get me started on Agenda 21…”
Luckily for us, the RUAP has a plan.
Policies and Focus
The RUAP believes that Australia can be led back to its former glory as a judeo-christian nation only through hard work and a return to the policies that made this country great in the 50’s and 60’s.
Putting Australian Culture back on top
The RUAP believes that one of the reasons that Australia has fallen so far from the peak is the introduction of policies like multiculturalism. They believe that we should return to a “many races one culture” ideal, in which minorities are free to remember their roots (I’m assuming in quaint folk festivals and such) but the dominant white anglo judeo-christian culture shall remain ascendant.
This means enacting policies like the following:
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Stopping the muslims
The RUAP is very concerned about the muslims in Australia. They seem to be firmly convinced that every single muslim in this country is a part of a grand conspiracy to destroy our judeo-christian heritage, bring in sharia law and bring on the creation of the great global caliphate. Only by blocking any muslim immigration and encouraging the right sort of immigration (read christians of the type the RUAP likes) can we be sure to keep Australia Australian.
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Stopping the gays
The RUAP is a right wing fundamentalist christian party based on right wing fundamentalist christian values. So it comes as no real surprise to learn that they are dead against the idea of the gays getting married. Hell, they’re not exactly happy with the idea that gay people can have relationships with other gay people. If they had their druthers, people of the homosexual persuasion would be banned from having kids, getting married and I suspect there would be serious thought given to government sponsored pray away the gay programmes.
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Stopping the foreigners
To round out the troika of things the RUAP would like to stop are foreigners. The RUAP is concerned that too many Australian things are now owned by foreigners and wants to introduce legislation that would ensure that Austalians own at least 51% of all infrastructure and land operations. They also want to make sure that the evil shadow government (their words not mine), made up of organisations like the UN, WTO and so on are kicked out.
I don’t have enough room to properly detail their policies, but I think the above gives you a fair idea of where they stand.
Personal Thoughts
Okay, if you are a strict right wing christian who firmly believes that the RUAP presents the country with a path to redemption then you’re not going to like what comes next.
In my own opinion, based on what I’ve read, the RUAP vision for Australia is one of complete insanity. The mix of religious hatred, nationalistic protectionism and just general nutballness means that the country would collapse in a matter of months.
The only decision I have that involves the RUAP is whether they get to go last on the ticket or second last.
Filed under: Candidates, Minor parties, Policies
