Voting Conservative
So Gary, you've got a clean record and never voted conservative! Good on you. Seems the new "Family First" senator Steve Fielding, who was expected to be right-wing like the US Christian right, is having second thoughts (at least, according to an article at the weekend in The Age Good Weekend magazine - which I can't find a link to sadly, only the following summary:
He squeaked into the Senate thanks to other parties' preferences, but Family First's Steve Fielding isn't quite the aw-shucks political innocent he seems to be. Jane Cadzow meets the born-again MP, his go-getter wife, and the amazing family he sprang from.
There's a picture of Steve and his "go-getter" wife Sue, swinging to the music at their charismatic City Life church. But seems he's against the US/Oz invasion of Iraq, and a few other fundamental tenets of conservative politics downunder, so no doubt Howard and co regard him as a heretic (albeit behind his back, because who knows when they will need his vote??).
# posted by geoff @ 1:11 pm
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