Religion at the Next Federal Election

After the recent resignation of WA Senator, Fatima Payman, the question over religion and politics in Australia has become a hot topic of debate.

Initially sparked by Sen. Payman's crossing of the floor in parliament, essentially not doing as she was told by the Labor party caucus, this triggered some astounding statements from Prime Minister Albanese.

Faith-based political parties would ‘undermine social cohesion’, PM says

Anthony Albanese says faith-based political parties would undermine social cohesion in Australia, after revelations this week that The Muslim Vote movement was planning to target federal seats at the next election.

ABC Newspolitical reporter Evelyn Manfield

Firstly, we should all acknowledge that EVERY party standing in the Australian Federal elections is based on a particular ideology/faith/belief system. It is foolish to think otherwise. Australian Christians being the only overtly Christian Party has a belief centred around Christ and the Bible. A number of the more left leaning parties have belief systems centred around The Communist Manifesto with their prophets being Marx and Engels. The Legalise Cannabis Australia party also has a belief in cannabis being a saving grace for many things.

We have some highly focused parties, that have policies centered around a viewpoint they espose as crucial. We have broad, major parties, that the Prime Minister thinks can represent all belief systems, however I believe that is just a tactic to smother the voices of those groups and make them subservient to the party rule.

Unless we, as Australians, want to end up with a political system like the 2 party fiasco in the United States, we need all the minor parties, regardless of what they believe, as they represent people in our community and country. We are the melting pot of all religions, beliefs and ethnicities

My Prediction!

Following the Prime Ministers statements, I think, The Muslim Vote will encourage as many Muslim Independent candidates to stand for lower house seats as possible, particularly in Western Sydney, where the pundits are already saying 3 or 4 seats might be easily taken from the Labor incumbents.

It's too late to form a formal Muslim Party before the upcoming federal elections, but mark my words, if they see some good results as independent members, you can be assured that a Muslim Party will be on the ticket for the following election, thus making it much easier to secure Senate seats as well.