Launch

Story Number One

Dr Williams had devoted his life to helping the poor and the underprivileged. He lived above an Op-Shop in a run-down part of town and had placed a sign in front of the shop which read:

“Dr Williams Is Upstairs”

When Dr Williams died, he had no relatives and left no money for his funeral as he had never asked for payment from any of the patients he had treated.

So a few of his patients and a small group of friends got together and scraped up enough money for a funeral for the good doctor.

They didn’t however have enough money to buy a headstone.

This was a concern as they feared his grave would remain unmarked – until one of them came up with a bright idea. They took the sign from in front of the Op-Shop and nailed it to a post above his grave. It made for a lovely epitaph:

dr-williams

Story Number Two

Not long before she died, a journalist conducted an interview with Mother Teresa.

“Mother Teresa”, the journalist asked, “I understand you spend a lot of time praying to God.”

“Yes, I do”, replied the famous nun.

“So, what do you say to God when you pray?” asked the journo.

“I don’t say anything”, replied Mother Teresa, “I just listen”.

“Oh, I see”, said the journalist, “so what does God say to you?”

“He doesn’t say anything”, replied Mother Teresa, “He just listens”.

A little light dispels a great darkness.

Former Family First Senator Bob Day has announced the launch of a new political party – The Australian Family Party. Day said the Australian Family Party was formed to counter the insidious influence of the Greens and the disappointment of the major parties. Day said the new Party was based on six key principles:

Family Resilience
Family Economics
Family Technology
Free to Speak
Free to Believe
Free to Work

“In 2016 the Coalition joined forces with the Greens to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act and abolish senate Group Voting Tickets. GVTs allowed voters to simply put a 1 above-the-line and let their party of choice distribute their preferences. Whilst minor parties differed widely on policy, the one thing they had in common was their dislike of the Greens. Using GVTs, minor parties came to arrangements with each other to combine their votes to get ahead of the Greens. The Coalition-Greens deal ended that”, Mr Day said.

“Liberals and Nationals can rant and rave all they like about Adam Bandt and the Greens but they have only themselves to blame. They have become the Greens’ enablers”.

“The nation has social and economic problems that it wants to solve and social and economic goals it wants to achieve, however looking to politicians, bureaucrats and regulators to solve these problems and achieve these goals is not going to work”, he said.

Day said the world is changing so profoundly – in social attitudes, world economics, and especially technology that politicians, public sector bureaucrats and regulators are hopelessly ill-equipped to manage it. They are “outdated and outgunned”, he said.

“The internet has become the new wild west with power concentrated in the hands of tech giants who destroy competition and privacy and misuse the information they collect. Any suggestion these behemoths can be trusted to ‘act fairly’ is laughable. We cannot rely on politicians and public sector bureaucrats to protect us. There is only one institution which can combat the lawlessness of the digital jungle and its predators and that is the family. The family is the best place to learn who to trust and who not to trust; who to communicate with and who not to communicate with”.

“As for personal freedoms– free to speak, free to believe and free to work, I have been championing these causes all my life”.

The family, the nation, have been dudded by politicians and bureaucrats. It’s time to push back.”

Fmr Senator Day’s full launch speech can be found here.

Media enquiries – Bob Day 0412 791 920