Pro-Palestine Muslim groups say they will back candidates at the next federal election but they are not the only religious groups hoping to influence voters
The announcement of Muslim-focused political groups has drawn criticism from major-party politicians, who say Australia’s political system should avoid sectarianism.The announcement of Muslim-focused political groups has drawn criticism from major-party politicians, who say Australia’s political system should avoid sectarianism.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupwhere the Muslim community “collectively has the potential deciding vote” based on an analysis of the electoral margins and the share of Islamic voters in those seats.Primarily, the groups are looking to influence electorates with a higher proportion of Muslim voters – and those seats have typically been traditional Labor strongholds.
Albanese also said it was “beyond obvious that it is not in the interest of smaller minority groups to isolate themselves, which is what a faith-based party system would do”.The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, said: “I don’t have any problem with a party that has a religious view … but when you say that your task is to, as a first order of priority, to support a Palestinian cause or a cause outside of Australia, that is a very different scenario.
For many years, Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic party held the balance of power in the NSW upper house and was influential in the passage of legislation, although it is no longer registered. Australian Christians, a Western Australia-based political party, remains registered and declares on its website: “We need a Christian voice in Parliament to cut through the political noise and promote accountability and integrity in government.
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