Family First Party: August 2006

Kanck denies euthanasia speech promotes suicide

ABC Online - Australia
... reason, but to no avail. Family First MP Andrew Evans says voluntary euthanasia is a dangerous cause. "When you analyse that facts ...

Demand for more aides

Courier Mail - Australia
... Early Childhood Australia Queensland secretary Lesley Penrose said the organisation ... Family First candidate for Everton, Dale Shuttleworth, said it was a shame ...

In the Family First way

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Dargan, journalist and media adviser to Family First senator Steve Fielding and former ... indigenous Toowoomba rugby league player who played for Australia in the ...

Beattie in election winning position

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... a record 45 per cent. Support for the Greens is at just two per cent, equal to that of Family First. If the results are carried ...

Family First offer cash to young

Family First offer cash to young

Courier Mail - Australia
... syndrome in Australia works to try to keep everyone on a level playing field, but it doesn’t seem to apply to political campaigns.". Family First estimates ...

Beattie set for bigger majority

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Support for the Greens has slumped since the last election, and remains on 2 per cent, equal to that of Family First, which stands among the independents and ...

Libs fear Baillieu will cost key votes

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Family First upper house candidate and spokesman Cameron Eastman said the party had concerns about several of Mr Baillieu's stances, but no decision on ...

Chipp tried to keep bastards honest

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... to quit the Liberal Party and form the Democrats as Australia's "third force ... Family First senator Steve Fielding, due to visit Mr Chipp yesterday, said he would ...

Chipp to be honoured with state funeral

ABC Regional Online - Australia
... last forever. Family First Senator Steve Fielding believes he would not have been elected without Don Chipp's help. Senator Fielding ...

Religion shouldn't be left to the Right

NEWS.com.au - Australia
... This time, the Catholics have been joined by the Pentecostalists' Family First. With much of Australia's religio-political activity essentially right wing ...

Nationals abandoning bush over Telstra: Beattie

ABC Online - Australia
... and gas. Meanwhile, the Queensland Coalition says it does not need Family First's preferences for next month's state election. The ...

Australian Christians: Holy Spirit with only a right wing?

Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
By Amanda Lohrey. Christianity arrived with a bang in Australia at the last elections when ALP preferences shuffled Family First into the Senate. ...

A foot in each camp

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... It may mean that minor parties such as the Greens, Family First and People Power attract more support from voters seeking an alternative to the mainstream ...

Labor to alter bill for gay couples

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
South Australia is the last state to grant its estimated 2500 homosexual ... the views of social conservatives, including minor party Family First, would be ...

Howard let down over tough immigration policy Bill

The National - Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
... reaching Australia and the threats of terrorism. Like the five coalition MPs, the four coalition senators and the only Family First senator Steve Fielding were ...

Libs, Dems unite on gay rights; South Australia under pressure to grant gay rights

Libs, Dems unite on gay rights

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
SOUTH Australia's Liberals have formed an unlikely alliance with the Democrats ... concerned about any backlash generated by minor party Family First in marginal ...

South Australia under pressure to grant gay rights
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
... rights to gay and lesbian couples, the government in South Australia are still ... A small party called Family First are opposed to the equality legislation, and ...

Conservative rebellion and public wrath

The Guardian (Australia) - Australia
Opposition by Family First Senator Steve Fielding and Liberal Senator Judith Troethe ... mollify disquiet over the proposed sale of Telstra, Australia’s overseas ...

Migration bill creates tears, division

Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
There were rumblings throughout Australia last week, as politicians drew battle lines ... media went into a frenzy over the bill, Senator Steve Fielding -- a man ...

Baby for Dr Ingrid; Refugee bill: why Howard backed down

Baby for Dr Ingrid

Courier Mail - Australia
... Dr Tall has kept a low profile since her failed run for the seat of Brisbane in 2004, when Family First tried to stir controversy over her sexuality. ...

Refugee bill: why Howard backed down
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
... resulted in the effective excision of the entire mainland of Australia from the ... Family First Senator Steve Fielding had declared the day before that he would ...

Victoria: conscience of a lost nation

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Moylan and Bruce Baird waved the flag for Western Australia and NSW ... Georgiou, Russell Broadbent, Judith Troeth, John Forrest and Steve Fielding — ensured the ...

Room for dissent; Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em

Room for dissent

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... After Family First senator Steve Fielding withdrew his vote as a potential lifeline ... a private member's bill, also raised concerns that Australia was adopting a ...

Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... hardline neogeographers to extend the definition of "Australia" to include ... as "The Pleasure Machine"?) and Ian "Dicko" Dickson for Family First senator Steve ...

Petrol price pressure

On Line opinion - Australia
Others, like Family First’s Steve Fielding, used the opportunity to score some ... petrol prices at most, if not all, service stations in Western Australia. ...

'Heads I win, tails you lose' approach to religion

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... for refugees, particularly those seeking to come to Australia from Indonesia's ... in the Senate, the Nationals' Barnaby Joyce and Family First's Steve Fielding ...

Australia's Howard Forced to Scrap Controversial Asylum Law

Australia's Howard Forced to Scrap Controversial Asylum Law

Voice of America - USA
... to settle in Australia. And it would have subjected possible refugees to lengthy stays in camps, which could be traumatizing. Senator Steve Fielding, from the ...

Higher oil price good for us all; AUSTRALIA: Senators Lobbied Ahead Of Migration Bill Vote

Higher oil price good for us all

Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... Family First senator Steve Fielding's solution is a A10-cents-a-litre cut in petrol excise, costing A$4 billion a year ... Australia and the US won't bite the bullet ...

AUSTRALIA: Senators Lobbied Ahead Of Migration Bill Vote
Pacific Magazine - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Yesterday, Family First Senator Steve Fielding said he would be voting against the ... to give the Senate the power to bring asylum seekers to Australia from Nauru ...

Stay out of politics, cleric tells Christians

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... For a political party such as Family First to advance a particular position flew in the ... There was a new kind of conflict over Christianity in Australia, he said ...

Howard's broken pledge

Courier Mail - Australia
A BROKEN promise John Howard made to the fledgling Family First Party at the last election has come back to haunt him on the immigration Bill. ...

Govt's migration laws may sink in Senate

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... laws may have hit an insurmountable hurdle after Family First's Steve Fielding signalled he ... you can have a situation where all of a sudden Australia would say ...

Fielding to vote against migration laws

Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Family First senator Steve Fielding says he will vote against the federal government's ... "Family First cannot support changes that would see Australia no longer ...

PM opens door to clone research; Minors get into gear

PM opens door to clone research

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... for therapeutic cloning could cost them vital preference deals with Family First and other ... of MPs is trying to organise a forum with Australia's chief scientist ...

Minors get into gear
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
WITH a state election fast approaching, Queensland's minor parties - Family First and the Greens - are cranking up their campaign machines while keeping a lid ...

The migration bill is dead, long may it stay so; Fuel company pleads poverty

The migration bill is dead, long may it stay so

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... was as strong as ever on the subject of asylum seekers and Australia's borders. ... he would abstain from voting on it; Family First senator Steve Fielding said he ...

Fuel company pleads poverty
Courier Mail - Australia
... in a promotions stunt by attempting to drive a gas-powered Ford around Australia on just $1000 of fuel. But Family First senator Steve Fielding said Australian ...

A smart leader knows when the cause is lost; Jakarta warns of refugees

A smart leader knows when the cause is lost

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... to vote with Labor, the Greens, the Democrats and the Family First senator Steve Fielding. ... Certainly the Australia-Indonesia relationship is extremely important ...

Jakarta warns of refugees
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... The failure of the bill could be seen as Australia encouraging asylum ... The bill was dumped after Family First senator Steve Fielding and Nationals senator ...

Government to deliver LPG conversion grant

Warrnambool Standard - Warrnambool,Victoria,Australia
... The Greens said the project would do nothing to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and the Family First Party again called for a 10 cent cut on petrol tax.

Howard dumps Migration Bill; Why resolute senator defeated asylum law; Bruising defeat handled deftly

Howard dumps Migration Bill

ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: Family First is pleased this legislation is dead. ... arrivals have been picked up off Ashmore Reef, which is to the north of Western Australia. ...

Why resolute senator defeated asylum law
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... resigned to withdrawing his legislation to radically alter Australia's border protection ... was so keen to persuade Family First senator Steve Fielding to support ...

Bruising defeat handled deftly
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
It was a bill he said was necessary for Australia's border protection ... Liberal senator, a Nationals senator and Family First senator Steve Fielding all declared ...

Illegals and turncoats; Step on the gas; PM scuttles Bill

Illegals and turncoats

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
AUSTRALIA loses from the Howard Government being forced to abandon laws ... Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce threatened to abstain, and Family First senator Steve ...

Step on the gas
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... But critics such as Family First senator Steve Fielding said the package would still be out of the reach of many motorists. "Family ...

PM scuttles Bill
Courier Mail - Australia
... "Family First is pleased the legislation is dead," he said. ... which was believed to be angry after West Papuans arrived on mainland Australia and successfully ...

Backbench rebellion forces border protection backdown; Call to lift ban on abortion training; PM unveils plan for LPG switch subsidies

Backbench rebellion forces border protection backdown

ABC Online - Australia
... SENATOR STEVE FIELDING, FAMILY FIRST: This was bad legislation based on a bad principle ... should never have bowed to Indonesian anger over Australia's decision to ...

Call to lift ban on abortion training
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
AUSTRALIA'S refusal to fund abortion training that could help stop up to 70,000 ... Health Minister Tony Abbott and Family First Senator Steve Fielding have also ...

PM unveils plan for LPG switch subsidies
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... INVEST $123 million to expand Australia's renewable power generation in remote parts of ... Family First senator Steve Fielding, who has been calling for a 10c-a ...

Howard faces defeat on Migration Bill; Joyce set to sink refugee legislation

Howard faces defeat on Migration Bill

ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: These changes will see Australia no longer playing by the rules. That's not right and that's not fair. We expect ...

Joyce set to sink refugee legislation
The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia
... another key senator, Family First's Steve Fielding, said he would vote against the plan to send all future asylum-seekers arriving by boat in Australia to the ...

Rebel Lib senator 'satisfied'; Senator 'pleased' asylum bill killed; Fielding to oppose migration Bill in Senate

Rebel Lib senator 'satisfied'

Courier Mail - Australia
... The Bill was designed to send all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat ... Family First senator Steve Fielding had said he would also oppose them, and ...

Senator 'pleased' asylum bill killed
NEWS.com.au - Australia
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding says he's pleased about the demise of tough new ... But he said the legislation was not needed as Australia already had tough ...

Fielding to oppose migration Bill in Senate
ABC Online - Australia
Family First Senator Steve Fielding has announced he will vote against the Federal ... Family First is opposing the changes because it will see Australia no longer ...

PM abandons doomed new migration laws; Migration Bill would put Papuan in exile, lawyer says; Troeth silent on migration vote decision; and 2 more...

PM abandons doomed new migration laws

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... senator Barnaby Joyce expected to abstain and crucial Family First senator Steve ... to appease Indonesia, which protested strongly when Australia granted asylum ...

Migration Bill would put Papuan in exile, lawyer says
ABC Regional Online - Australia
... Family First Senator Steven Fielding has again explained why he will not vote for the migration Bill, saying it is aimed at appeasing Indonesia. "Australia ...

Troeth silent on migration vote decision
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... to a group of Papuan asylum seekers, would result in the offshore processing of all boat people to reach Australia. Meanwhile, Family First senator Steve ...

Howard faces defeat on asylum vote
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... of migration laws forcing all boatpeople into offshore detention after Family First senator Steve ... Imagine if every other country did what Australia is proposing ...

Migration changes scrapped
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... which protested strongly when Australia granted asylum to a group of Papuan refugees who landed on Cape York earlier this year. Family First senator Steve ...

Stop bullying Lib rebels: Beazley; PM dumps asylum laws; Family borders

Stop bullying Lib rebels: Beazley

Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Mr Beazley also welcomed Family First senator Steve Fielding's announcement yesterday that he ... in the offshore processing of all boatpeople to reach Australia. ...

PM dumps asylum laws
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... strongly when Australia granted asylum to a group of Papuan refugees who landed on Cape York earlier this year. Family First senator Steve Fielding had said he ...

Today's business headlines
WA Business News - Northbridge,Western Australia,Australia
... Steve Fielding set to sink government's migration legislation; Pakistani taxi drivers in Canberra face racial abuse from customers. Page 2: Australia making no ...

Family borders
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Bravo Steve Fielding! ... Australia must have the right to control who enters our country and given the threats of terrorism and health issues such as SARS, it ...

Senators lobbied ahead of migration Bill vote

ABC Online - Australia
... Yesterday, Family First Senator Steve Fielding said he would be voting against the ... to give the Senate the power to bring asylum seekers to Australia from Nauru ...

Unsure where to fall

Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Guinea, as they had in the past, with the deliberate intention of fostering tensions between Australia and Indonesia. ... Steve Fielding seems to be on to that one ...

Morning Report: overseas papers
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
... Family First Senator Steve Fielding said he couldn't support a policy designed to appease Indonesia. In The Courier Mail: Australia is said to be holding off a ...

Whose will be done?; PM likely to walk plank on border protection

Whose will be done?

Courier Mail - Australia
Senator Steve Fielding, a lapsed Baptist who was "born again" and is now a leader in ... of Herod and Joseph and Mary and Jesus turned up in Australia, what would ...

PM likely to walk plank on border protection
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The stances declared yesterday by Steve Fielding (opposed) and Barnaby Joyce (expecting to abstain) indicate the bill will be defeated. ...

Why I will not go Howard's way on illegals

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The Government's policy is designed to appease Indonesia, and Family First strongly opposes that. Australia should never allow itself to be pressured or ...

Asylum law teetering as Fielding finally says no; Fielding 'no' to changes

Asylum law teetering as Fielding finally says no

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... defeat in the Senate this week, with senator Steve Fielding ending weeks ... Family First could not support … If every country followed Australia's lead — made ...

Fielding 'no' to changes
Courier Mail - Australia
... in the Senate vote expected early this week, Australia would maintain its ... Family First senator Steve Fielding plans to oppose the Howard Government's proposed ...

Australian govt's immigration law faces knife-edge vote

Forbes - USA
... Family First Senator Steve Fielding, one of a handful of lawmakers who could hold a casting vote ... Imagine if every other country did what Australia is proposing. ...

Immigration big in the bush: Joyce

ABC Online - Australia
... thinks, immigration is THE issue for people living in rural Australia. ... dissidents Judith Troeth, Marise Payne and Russell Trood, Steve Fielding from Family ...

Australian government's immigration law in the balance

Radio Australia - Australia
... First Senator, Steve Fielding, has vowed to vote against it. The bill seeks to tighten immigration laws so that asylum-seekers who arrive in mainland Australia ...

Ads against migration laws to run on TV

Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... The legislation faces an uncertain future with Family First senator Steve Fielding on Sunday announcing he will vote against it.

Vanstone denies Afghan claims; Interview: Steve Fielding; Businessman funds migration bill ads

Vanstone denies Afghan claims

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... lives, and we want to keep the places for refugees in Australia for those ... Meanwhile, Family First senator Steve Fielding says he will vote against the federal ...

Interview: Steve Fielding
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Senate? STEVE FIELDING: Look, Family First cannot support changes that would see Australia no longer playing by the rules. LAURIE ...

Businessman funds migration bill ads
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... responsibilities". The legislation faces an uncertain future with Family First senator Steve Fielding today announcing he will vote against it.

Offshore detention not ideal: Vanstone

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Island option was reportedly a suggested compromise by Family First senator Steven ... appeals and other options available to refugee applicants in Australia was a ...

PM, Fielding to meet on asylum laws

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding will meet Prime Minister John Howard this morning to discuss controversial changes to Australia's immigration laws. ...

PM woos Family First on immigration

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Family First senator Steve Fielding will meet Prime Minister John Howard this morning to discuss controversial changes to Australia's immigration laws. ...

Bill to expose biased pregnancy advice

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... which will deny asylum seekers the right to land in Australia or access ... Family First senator Steve Fielding is also locked in discussions with supporters and ...

Border Bill in trouble

Sunday Times.au - Perth,WA,Australia
... Minister John Howard used the vote of Family First Senator Steve Fielding to negate ... border protection laws after 43 West Papuans sailed to Australia in January ...

Asylum Bill in trouble as senators waver

The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia
... Family First's Steve Fielding. Prime Minister John Howard proposed the toughening of border protection after Indonesia's anger at Australia granting protection ...

Senator meets asylum-seekers; Migration laws face a hurdle

Senator meets asylum-seekers

Border Mail - Albury,New South Wales,Australia
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding left a meeting with West Papuan asylum-seekers in ... others from West Papua, were granted temporary asylum in Australia in a ...

Migration laws face a hurdle
Border Mail - Albury,New South Wales,Australia
... bill designed to send all asylum-seekers arriving in Australia by boat ... Trood, Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce, and Family First senator Steve Fielding say they ...

Man of mystery keeps them guessing

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... He's not even very well known personally within the wider Family First clan. ... The policy talks about the need to "restore Australia's reputation for being a ...

PM concedes Migration Bill may not pass Senate; Top team urges senators to just say no

PM concedes Migration Bill may not pass Senate

ABC Online - Australia
... she may cross the floor, and in Melbourne this afternoon, the Family First Senator Steve ... if no one else wants to accept them, do they get a home in Australia. ...

Top team urges senators to just say no
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... co-ordinator of the group, Hugh Evans, has also spoken with Family First senator Steve ... account of the perilous journey by boat with his daughter to Australia. ...

Five look to rebel; Refugee bill morally wrong: rebel MP; Fielding gets refugee's version of border protection

Five look to rebel

Courier Mail - Australia
... offshore for processing all asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat. ... Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce, and Family First senator Steve Fielding say they ...

Refugee bill morally wrong: rebel MP
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... They are decent people and my Australia is egalitarian ... The legislation now goes to the Senate, with Family First senator Steve Fielding yesterday holding talks ...

Fielding gets refugee's version of border protection
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... David Manne and a translator to talk to Family First senator Steve Fielding. ... West Papuan refugees who recently sought, and were granted, asylum in Australia. ...

Senators undecided on asylum laws; Migration Bill may not pass in Senate

Senators undecided on asylum laws
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
... Bill designed to send all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat ... Trood, Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce, and Family First senator Steve Fielding say they ...

Migration Bill may not pass in Senate
ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: People are saying that Indonesia is, you know, there's concerns there so I ... But to say that within our region, you know, Australia is within the ...

Fielding meets asylum seekers;Howard concedes Senate might reject refugee law reform

Fielding meets asylum seekers

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding has met two West Papuan asylum seekers ahead of a ... forced her to plead for her daughter's return from asylum in Australia. ...

Howard concedes Senate might reject refugee law reform
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... by boat to be sent to island detention camps and enable Australia to deny ... a meeting Thursdaywith a senator of a minor opposition party, Steve Fielding, who has ...

SENATE TO DECIDE ASYLUM FATE

Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
The Australia government’s tough new immigration laws have passed the lower house but face a rougher ride in the Senate where Family First senator Steve ...

Liberals cross floor in Immigration Bill vote; Tough immigration laws set for debate; Asylum law rebels defy PM

Liberals cross floor in Immigration Bill vote

ABC Online - Australia
... Joseph turned up in Australia, what would we do? NARDA GILMORE: The Prime Minister's already working to secure the vote of Family First Senator Steve Fielding. ...

Tough immigration laws set for debate
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... to be trying to court the vote of Family First senator Steve Fielding, with the ... It on the one hand protects Australia's national interests and our country, but ...

Asylum law rebels defy PM
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
... The dissenters hope National Barnaby Joyce or Family First's Steve Fielding will also ... asylum-seekers will be blocked from access to Australia's legal appeals ...

Peg sails into controversy; Australia OKs new migration law

Peg sails into controversy

NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Cassidy said, noting that at the 2004 federal election Senator Milne was only just elected after not receiving preferences from losing Family First candidates. ...

Australia OKs new migration law
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
CANBERRA, Australia (UPI) -- The Australian government overcome a backbench parliamentary ... the Senate where two Liberal members and a Family First party senator ...

Rebel falls on sword over asylum;Michael Costello: Beazley's story begins to ring true; Asylum row claims scalp in day of defiance

Rebel falls on sword over asylum

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... turns to the Senate, where the vote of Family First senator Steve Fielding could be ... It is quite clear that some people in West Papua and Australia decided that ...

Michael Costello: Beazley's story begins to ring true
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Troeth, Marise Payne or Russell Trood or Family First Senator, Steve Fielding. ... difference between the commodity economies of Western Australia and Queensland ...

Asylum row claims scalp in day of defiance
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... for further talks, and the Family First senator Steve Fielding met separately ... Minister, Mari Pangestu, said his country's relationship with Australia would not ...

Migration bill passes Lower House
ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: We spoke about a range of issues. ... the analogy that if it was the time of Herron and Jesus, Mary and Joseph turned up in Australia, what would ...

Three rebels cross floor
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... the Government stepped up negotiations with Family First senator Steve Fielding yesterday ... of Herod and Joseph, Mary and Jesus turned up in Australia, what would ...

Fielding 'undecided' on vote

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Family First senator Steve Fielding has emerged from talks with Prime ... the new immigration legislation after Indonesia complained about Australia's decision to ...

Asylum laws: PM's bid to quell revolt; Beazley, Tuckey head to head in verbal spat

Asylum laws: PM's bid to quell revolt

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... "Family First believe Australians want a strong system, but a fair system," Senator Fielding ... want a strong system in deciding who comes to Australia and who ...

Beazley, Tuckey head to head in verbal spat
ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: Family First does understand that Australians want a strong system for determining who comes to Australia and who doesn't, but also Australians ...

Senators mum on migration vote; 3 LIBERALS CROSS THE FLOOR; Migration Bill passes Lower House

Senators mum on migration vote

Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... The laws are designed to send all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat ... Family First senator Steve Fielding maintains he is yet to make up his mind. ...

3 LIBERALS CROSS THE FLOOR
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
... the floor over legislation aimed at ensuring all boat arrivals to Australia will be ... and Labor are holding talks with Family First senator Steve Fielding in an ...

Migration Bill passes Lower House
ABC Online - Australia
... Family First Senator Steve Fielding's vote will also be crucial. ... "Australians want a strong system for determining who comes to Australia and who doesn't," he ...

No PM deals on migration law: senator; Editorial: High Noon for the Senate; Stem cell scientist could address Cabinet

No PM deals on migration law: senator

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... "Family First understands Australians want a strong system of deciding who comes to Australia and who doesn't, but Australians also want a fair system, of ...

Editorial: High Noon for the Senate
NewMatilda.com (subscription) - Sydney,Australia
Another week, another test of the moral fibre of Australia’s Senators. ... lines in the sand for certain Coalition Senators and Steve Fielding from Family First. ...

Stem cell scientist could address Cabinet
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Meanwhile, Mr Howard would not say if he discussed embryonic stem cells with Family First Senator Steve Fielding at a meeting today.

More Libs cross Howard on asylum law

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... came as churches increased pressure on Family First senator Steve Fielding to ensure ... Ms Moylan said Australia should not fashion its refugee policy to appease ...

Higher petrol prices are good for us

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... single conservation measure the Government could take to reduce Australia's reliance on ... Family First senator Steve Fielding's solution is a 10 cents a litre ...

Two Liberals to cross floor on immigration

ABC Online - Australia
... JUDI MOYLAN: Australia is a big country. ... The Government's courting the support of Family First Senator Steve Fielding, to neutralise the likelihood of Liberal ...

Backbenchers to cross floor on migration; Offshore asylum bill facing defeat

Backbenchers to cross floor on migration

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... But they hope at least one coalition senator or Family First will join ... the policy, announced in April following Indonesian anger over Australia's decision to ...

Offshore asylum bill facing defeat
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... the bill with her, but has abandoned formal negotiations with the moderates to pursue other means of support, such as Victorian Family First senator Stephen ...

Asylum seeker laws still in limbo

Courier Mail - Australia
... support the plan to send all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat ... the issue, Senator Troeth would only need the support of Family First senator Steve ...

Pump it up, figure it out

Pump it up, figure it out
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... If the Government mandated that cars produced for Australia had to be ... a campaign spearheaded in recent months by Family First Senator Steve Fielding, who has ...

Howard pleads for Coalition unity; Leaves us to guess; Rebel Libs defy PM on asylum law

Howard pleads for Coalition unity

ABC Online - Australia
... told his colleagues that removing asylum seekers from Australia's legal system and ... The Government's now pinning its hopes on Family First Senator Steve Fielding ...
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Leaves us to guess
Courier Mail - Australia
... on asylum laws for fear of being gazumped by Family First's Steve Fielding. ... the Senate – concerned legitimate refugees would be denied asylum in Australia. ...

Rebel Libs defy PM on asylum law
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Liberal Judith Troeth remains opposed to the legislation and Family First senator Steve ... bottom line is what happens to bona fide refugees when Australia is the ...

Immigration Bill debate looms

NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Senator Troeth would only need the support of Family First senator Steve Fielding to tie ... people want a strong system in deciding who comes to Australia and who ...

Parliament resumes after winter break

ABC Online - Australia
... STEVE FIELDING: Look, she offered a meeting and Family First has always said they'll ... a strong system to work out who comes and who doesn't come to Australia. ...

Petrol heads towards $1.50

NEWS.com.au - Australia
... "This charge is unfair, it’s just a tax on a tax," Mr Cumming said. Family First senator Steve Fielding has also called for a 10c cut to fuel excise. ...

Labor steps up offshore processing opposition
ABC Online - Australia
... "The issue for Family First is that Australian families want a strong system to work our who comes and who does not come to Australia and Australians also want ...

Govt facing migration laws showdown; Coalition rules out cutting petrol excise

Govt facing migration laws showdown

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... introduced the measures to appease Jakarta in a row over Australia granting refuge to ... now appears to be trying to court the vote of Family First Senate Steve ...
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Coalition rules out cutting petrol excise
ABC Online - Australia
... The Family First party insists the Government should cut the excise but Federal ... the Coalition should be making major changes to make Australia less dependent ...

Coalition rules out cutting petrol excise; Asylum vote pressure on; MPs urged to scuttle immigration laws

Senators pressure Govt over fuel prices

ABC Online - Australia
... "That's what everybody wants - that's a loud and clear message around Australia.". ... Family First Senator Steve Fielding says it is wrong for the Federal ...

Asylum vote pressure on
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
PRESSURE is mounting on Family First senator Steve Fielding over his vote on legislation that would see asylum seekers who reach the mainland processed offshore ...

MPs urged to scuttle immigration laws
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Australia's human rights obligations. Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone appears to be trying to court the vote of Family First senator Steve Fielding as the ...

Libs do U-turn on controversial race law; Brace for petrol to go higher

Libs do U-turn on controversial race law

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Ryan, independent MP Russell Savage, candidates from the Greens, Family First and Christian ... the Ku Klux Klan, had been spruiking the rally while in Australia. ...

Brace for petrol to go higher
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... resources of the world, the petrol prices we have seen go up in Australia is only the start.". This failed to impress forum attendee Family First senator Steve ...

Govt MPs urge Howard to address petrol prices

ABC Online - Australia
... have a complete recapitalisation of the motor vehicle market in Australia and that ... armed with a jerry can of petrol Family First Senator Steve Fielding is on ...

Govt media reforms worry Family First; Resurgent Howard ready to crush backbench revolt; Senate pressure for petrol price cut

Govt media reforms worry Family First

Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Family First senator Steve Fielding says he is concerned about the government's proposed media shakeup. Under the changes to the ...

Resurgent Howard ready to crush backbench revolt
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Family First's Senator Steve Fielding was undecided yesterday, saying he wanted a balance between fairness and border security. ...

Senate pressure for petrol price cut
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
FAMILY First Senator Steve Fielding has called the Government ?drunk on petrol'' and ... typically translates into 1c a litre at the petrol pump in Australia. ...

Petrol the issue as politicians return

Today's business headlines
WA Business News - Northbridge,Western Australia,Australia
... Page 1: One of Australia's most senior cancer specialists has accused pharmaceutical ... new asylum laws through the Senate by winning the support of Family First. ...

Petrol the issue as politicians return
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Family First Senator Steve Fielding says the government should cut petrol excise by ... senator Christine Milne says the root problem is Australia's dependence on ...

Government dodges 'drunk on petrol' claims

2GB News - Sydney,NSW,Australia
... greatest threat to their survival. But Family First Senator Steve Fielding says they only have themselves to blame. "When you're taking ...

Key senator set to cross floor on asylum law; Family First holds key

Key senator set to cross floor on asylum law

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... reach Australia's mainland. If Senator Troeth opposes the bill, the Government could still get it passed if it could persuade Family First Steve Fielding to ...

Family First holds key
Courier Mail - Australia
... Amanda Vanstone is due to meet Family First senator Steve Fielding in Canberra ... In the past boat arrivals who reached the mainland were processed in Australia. ...

Conservatives no holier than Labor: Rudd

Conservatives no holier than Labor: Rudd
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... owned subsidiary of either the Liberal or National party, or of Family First.". ... speakers at the forum which aims to highlight Australia's Christian heritage. ...

Family First to run in all seats

Family First to run in all seats

Courier Mail - Australia
CONSERVATIVE party Family First plans to target regional areas of Queensland, such as ... for Victoria and two upper house MPs in South Australia, is planning to ...

Services kept running

Courier Mail - Australia
... The Federal Budget provided $10 million funding for Australia's regional universities ... was passed last December with the support of Family First senator Steve ...

Christian forum puts faith in politics

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... up and be bold and thankful and proud of Australia's Christian heritage ... foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd, Family First senator Steve Fielding, and former ...

Howard rules out asylum-law changes

The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... to heal a diplomatic rift with Indonesia, sparked by Australia's decision to ... Coalition colleague or the lone Family First senator, Steve Fielding, to block them ...

Govt pushes ahead with immigration laws

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... She would only need to sway Family First senator Steve Fielding to thwart the government's ... he could be the last asylum seeker to arrive in Australia by boat ...

Justice comes ashore

The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... with National Barnaby Joyce, Liberal Marise Payne and Family First's Steve Fielding ... that it was "imperative to change perceptions of Australia in Indonesia and ...

Why they love John at the margins

Why they love John at the margins
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... He won with preferences from Family First and support from working-class voters in ... was clear: "Their preference is for the Prime Minister of Australia at this ...

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