Family First Party
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Family First Party
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| Leader | Bob Day |
| Chairman | Dennis Hood |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | 77 Fullarton Road Kent Town SA 5067 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Social conservatism Fiscal conservatism Economic liberalism Christian right Federalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours |
Blue and Orange |
| Senate |
1 / 76
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| SA Legislative Council |
2 / 22
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The Family First Party is an economically and socially conservative political party in Australia. Although the party publicly states that it is not a Christian party, many of its election candidates and members of parliament have had conservative Christian backgrounds. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council (Robert Brokenshire and Dennis Hood), plus one member of the federal Senate, Bob Day. Day resigned on 1 November 2016, and it is expected that his replacement will be appointed soon.
The party was founded in South Australia in time to contest the 2002 state election, when former Assemblies of God pastor Andrew Evans became its first elected member, winning a seat in the South Australian Legislative Council. A second party member, pharmaceutical executive Dennis Hood, was elected to the Legislative Council at the 2006 state election. Robert Brokenshire replaced Andrew Evans following the latter's retirement in 2008.
In the October 2004 federal election, Family First contested seats all over Australia, generally exchanging preferences with Liberal candidates, although in some seats it exchanged preferences with the Australian Labor Party. At that election the party was successful in having Steve Fielding elected as a Senator for Victoria. Along with independent Nick Xenophon and the five Australian Greens, Fielding shared the balance of power in the Senate from July 2008 to July 2011. He was defeated in the 2010 federal election.
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