The starters’ gun on a five-week election campaign fired yesterday.

It’s going to be a lacklustre affair with no hope from Labor or the Coalition that the real issues facing the nation will be tackled.

Getting males out of girls’ and women’s sports, ditching cost-of-living-destroying net zero and addressing the intergenerational theft that is our almost $1 trillion debt are not on either parties’ radar.

Both are committed to Medicare funding of abortion to and even after birth. That is not right wing extremism, it is fact.

Neither have a plan to shut the child gender clinics which inject gender-confused children with harmful puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and even refer them for mutilating surgery in a futile attempt to change gender.

There are no realistic plans to solve the housing affordability crisis which disincentivises young men and women from getting married and having children.

My parents bought a house and raised a family on one wage. My wife and I did what my parents did but only because we both worked outside the home.

Today our adult children have greatly reduced hope of home ownership even on two wages.

The Australian dream evaporated in a generation.

This breaks my heart. We’ve regressed and our kids and grandkids are paying the price because politicians are asleep at the wheel.

Our birth rate is not sustaining us so the major parties keep importing people, many from a culture that hates the Judeo-Christian West from which Australia was hewn.

House prices keep going up, infrastructure is squeezed and people march in the street supporting terrorists in foreign war zones.

Australia is becoming unrecognisable, less cohesive. We don’t know who we are.

Yet we have wealth for toil in the form of fossil fuels, uranium and agriculture.

But net zero pursued by Labor and the Coalition (the Libs and Nats put Scott Morrison on the plane to Glasgow) is making us poorer by the day.

We used to have one of the best standards of living. Now we are on the path to Argentina.

The Family First team and I have decided not to moan about all this but to do something.

Together, we are scrambling to nominate 76 courageous and principled candidates across eastern and southern Australia.

We already have five quality Senate candidates running in Queensland, NSW, the ACT, Victoria and South Australia.

Every voter in those jurisdictions has the opportunity to vote for Family First in the upper house.

Two of our Senate candidates, Bernie Finn in Victoria, and Elizabeth Kikkert in the ACT, have parliamentary experience with the Liberal party before the party that purports to be of Menzies kicked them out because of their pro-family, pro-life views.

Katie Lush, Queensland, and Christopher Brohier, SA, are lawyers.

I’ve had six-and-half-years experience as an elected local government councillor and worked at the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra for 10 years.

Together we are campaigning to cut power prices by getting out of Paris and dropping net zero, protect parents’ rights to educate their children in faith-based schools and to protect children from the radical LGBTIQA+ gender whisperers.

Labor, Liberal, the Nationals, Greens and Teals are in lock step on net zero, leaving the fake definition of woman in the Sex Discrimination Act and continuing to support industrial scale abortion-to-birth.

Family First offers a vision for promoting strong heterosexual marriages, families with mums and dads wherever possible, life, freedom of speech and religion and an economic vision that unlocks the natural resources we have which fuel prosperity.

The next five weeks are crucial to our nation’s future but the major parties offer no vision.

The good news is you can send a message of demand for a positive future by voting 1 Family First in the Senate and then wherever you find a Family First lower house candidate.

You can fuel this message of demand by donating at our website.

Let’s make the next five weeks mean something for our nation by building a political movement that will address the real issues.

The best ways we can do that is to vote 1 Family First, donate, volunteer and pray.