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Family First puts its family front and centre in election push
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 05, 2019 08:29pm |
| Category | Perspective |
| News Date | Nov 24, 2014 12:00pm |
| Description | Electoral contests are increasingly about preferences and the brokers who cut deals that give minor parties a bigger say than they could possibly achieve on their own. And sometimes, those minor parties can take on a very strange complexion.
Consider Family First, founded in 2002 and gaining its first major success with Victorian Steven Fielding, who was elected to the Senate on the back of a byzantine preference deal in 2004 despite receiving just 2500 primary votes.
But Mr Fielding is no more. “We haven’t caught up with Steve for a while,” says the current Upper House Family First candidate in the Victorian state election, Andrew Conlon.
Instead, in the last few years the Victorian branch of Family First has been virtually taken over by interests associated with property developer and party state director Ashley Fenn (pictured below left), his companies in the Ethan Property Group and his place of worship, the Ringwood-based GROW church. |
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