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Make your voice heard at the Federal Election for Families, Decentralisation, and National Security
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Ask Nationals/LNP MPs and candidates to tell Barnaby Joyce:
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commit to an inquiry to consider Family-Based Income Tax
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call for more Decentralisation and Strategic Industry policies, for national security, jobs and affordable housing
[ultimate_spacer height=”50″ height_on_tabs=”20″ height_on_tabs_portrait=”20″ height_on_mob_landscape=”20″ height_on_mob=”20″]The NCC commissioned polling of 1,200 voters on major election issues. It was conducted in March by SMGlobal. The polling found that Australians want:
- Family-Based Income Tax: 70 per cent want the option of changing from personal income tax to family-based taxation to lower the family tax burden, particularly when raising children. Families want greater choice between institutional childcare and home care for children and other dependents.
Yet, a review of the major party platforms found there is no serious family policies being offered by any major party – Labor, Coalition or Greens.
- Comprehensive Decentralisation and Strategic Industry policies are also supported by a large majority of Australians.
ACTION
Download these two leaflets…
1. Australians Want Family Based Taxation
2. Australians Want Strategic Industries and Decentralisation
- Call/Deliver/Fax to your Nationals/LNP candidates: CONTACT DETAILS HERE
- EMAIL MPs/SENATORS HERE: Queensland NSW Victoria
- Promote on social media and to friends
- Hand out the leaflets to Nationals/LNP campaign workers
- View all 2022 Federal Election candidates here.
Inform yourself from the leaflets, then in your own words say:
- No major party has serious family policies.
- Australian’s want family-based taxation, but no party has this as policy.
- The Coalition is suffering from the loss of voters suffering financial stress.
- The party that supports family-based taxation stands to win the vote of stressed 35 to 49-year-olds and households.
- Barnaby Joyce is the Deputy Prime Minister. He has the authority to call for an inquiry to examine family-based taxation.
- Barnaby Joyce is also best placed to call for greater decentralisation and industry policies.
- In your emails, include links to our policy leaflets.
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Freedom of belief and speech at this election
Are you aware that asking your federal election candidates the question, “What is a woman?”, is vital for protecting both the sex-based rights of women and for defending freedom of belief and speech?
This issue has been highlighted by outspoken Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves, who has spoken out in defence of the sex-based rights of women in the election campaign. She has the support of Prime Minister Morrison, much to the ire of the transgender lobby.
This has become a major issue since 2013, when the federal Sex Discrimination Act was amended to remove the definitions of “man” and “woman” and give priority to protecting a person’s self-defined, fluid gender identity over a person’s inherent biological sex. This protection for fluid gender identity plays out in:
- sports when biological men who identify as women seek to compete in women’s sports; and
- state schools when natal boys who identify as girls seek access to girls-only schools, girls’ dormitories, camps, toilets, shower and change rooms.
Unlike state schools, faith-based schools have had exemptions from Sex Discrimination Act. However, these exemptions are tenuous. Last February, the Greens, Labor and dissident Liberals only supported Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill on the condition that another Bill removed exceptions for religious schools from the Sex Discrimination Act. This was a case of one step forward and five steps backwards for religious freedoms. The Bill passed in the House of Reps but was not dealt with by the Senate before the election was called.
Laws making gender identity a protected attribute bring the state into serious conflict with religious and natural law moral beliefs and teachings about the nature of human sexuality, marriage and family.
Defending biological world view
Tasmanian Liberal Senator, Claire Chandler, has a bill before the Senate that would not only protect the integrity of women’s sport, but also define in the Sex Discrimination Act “man means a member of the male sex irrespective of age” and “woman means a member of the female sex irrespective of age.”
These biological definitions of “man” and “woman” would give firm legal ground to those who hold to the biological world view, should they face discrimination charges for standing up for sex based-rights and the freedom to manifest a belief in the biological nature of sex.
ACTION
Quiz your candidates: ask “what is a woman?”
To assess where your candidates stand on this most important issue threatening women and freedom of belief and speech, ask your candidates “what is a woman?”
Scott Morrison has said a woman is “a member of the female sex”. His answer is broadly correct but given that gender fluid theory says sex is fluid, a better answer would be that a woman is a person of the “immutably biological, female sex”.
Anthony Albanese said a woman is “an adult female.” This is less precise, indeed ambiguous, as gender fluid theory says a man can identify as “female”. Albanese’s definition can include males who self-identify as women.
So, when you ask your candidate, what is a woman, make sure you they give a precise answer that includes words like “immutable biological female”, or “a biological person with the potential to become pregnant”, or “a person of the female sex, where sex is biologically fixed”, etc. Don’t settle for the words that have come to be ambiguous, like “female”, “gender”, or “sex”.If candidates hesitate and refuse to give a direct answer, here are some further probing questions:
- Can a biological male become pregnant?
- Can a natal female have functioning male genitals?
- Should biological males who identify as women be allowed to use women’s change rooms, showers, and toilets?
- Should teachers be forced to face discrimination charges and loss of employment by refusing to allow boys who identify as female in girls’ safe spaces?
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More on Religious Discrimination Bill questions
[ultimate_spacer height=”50″ height_on_tabs=”20″ height_on_tabs_portrait=”20″ height_on_mob_landscape=”20″ height_on_mob=”20″]Anglican Bishop Michael Stead has quizzed Liberal, Labor and Greens parties to obtain their views on the Religious Discrimination Bill and related issues, such as the ability of religious schools to teach and operate in accordance with their faith and ethos. Click the following link for a summary of his detailed questions and the responses to the Election Questionnaire in multiple languages:
Religious Discrimination Survey – Results by Electorate
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