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Family First Party
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Dissolved | 26 April 2017 |
| Merged into | Australian Conservatives |
| Headquarters | 77 Fullarton Road Kent Town SA 5067 |
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Blue and Orange |
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The Family First Party was a conservative political party in Australia, in existence from 2001 to 2017. It was founded in South Australia and enjoyed its greatest popularity in that state.
Family First had three candidates elected to the Senate during its existence – Steve Fielding (2005–2011), Bob Day (2014–2016), and Lucy Gichuhi (2017; elected on a countback following Day's resignation). At state level, the party won a seat in the South Australian Legislative Council across four consecutive state elections (2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014). It also briefly had representatives in the New South Wales Legislative Council and Western Australian Legislative Council, as a result of defections from other parties.
The party was generally considered to be part of the Christian right. Though it had no formal affiliation with any particular religious organisation, Family First was strongly linked to the Pentecostal church in South Australia, and nationally from smaller Christian denominations. Family First in South Australia was viewed as an infusion of ex-Liberals via Robert Brokenshire and Bob Day. Originally advocating a moral and family values agenda, Day, who would become Family First's major donor, later reoriented Family First to begin to emphasise issues such as industrial relations reform, free speech and smaller government, which brought Family First closer to Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives. Day's High Court Senate disqualification and protracted personal and business financial crisis impoverished Family First. Family First and their two state incumbents merged in to Bernardi's Conservatives in April 2017.
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