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The big question arising from Donald Trump’s electrifying address to Congress today is why don’t our leaders have his courage?

Whatever one’s view of Trump the man, the narcissist etc - 90 per cent of what he said is common sense.

How hard is it to get biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports?

Fix the cost-of-living crisis by “drill, baby drilling” and getting out of the Paris climate accords?

Even former Prime Minister Tony Abbot says Australia should do what Trump is doing and declare an “energy emergency”.

Ban child gender transition?

Trump’s not afraid to take on the noisy LGBTQI+ lobby but Peter Dutton is petrified of them.

Restore freedom of speech?

Trump has banished cancel culture – the sort that has Family First National Director Lyle Shelton embroiled in a five-year legal battle against two drag queens who have weaponised the law in the service of their hurt feelings.

“We are getting wokeness out of our schools, out of our military,” Trump said.

“Wokeness is trouble, we don’t want it.”

Hear, hear!

Sadly, both Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese are wedded to woke.

They are too scared to touch any of what Trump talked of today.

They are both going into this election pledged to net zero and forcing us to pay the Paris premium on our electricity.

Both refuse to change the Sex Discrimination Act to restore the definition of woman, leaving girls and women unsafe in their private spaces and sports.

For casual observers of politics, Trump’s war on woke might seem new.

But he’s simply implementing long-standing Family First policy.

Many of us thought the radical left was so ascendent that we may not see the tables turned in our life time.

But here we are on the right side of history.

Trump’s list of wasteful spending on US AID was comical.

“$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of,” Trump said about the landlocked 2-million-person country surrounded by South Africa.

“$8 million for making mice transgender — this is real,” Trump read.

“$1.5 billion for voter confidence in Liberia … $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City … $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.”

The list went on.

Imagine what would be found if a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop in Canberra.

Trump chronicled the end of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programs and the teaching of critical race theory, which teaches children to hate America.

The woke mind virus, to use the phrase Elon Musk coined, has infected Australia equally.

Leadership in America is turning the tables on the radical left.

The Democrats sat indignantly. One held at sign saying “this is not normal”.

Weird from the same people who think taxpayers’ money should be spent on making mice transgender.

Democrat women wore pink in protest of Trump’ supposedly anti-women policies.

But 24 hours earlier they voted against getting males out of girls’ and women’s sports.

Nancy Pelosi looked like she was sucking on lemons.

Dutts and Albo are yet to get the message.

If you want common sense for Australia, vote 1 Family First.

Both Labor’s Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton showed how out of touch they are on Australia’s red-hot gender debate this week.

While Donald Trump gets on with getting males out of girls’ sports and de-funding the child gender clinics, our politicians can’t work out whether they are Arthur or Martha.

Butler, who is Anthony Albanese’s Health Minister, was asked about biological males playing in girls and women’s sports.

“This is not an issue in Australia,” he foolishly said.

Kirralie Smith of the women’s and girl’s rights advocacy group Binary was in court last Friday fighting an Apprehended Violence Order brought against her by a male soccer player who identifies as a woman and plays in a women’s team.

Butler is a fool.

Sadly Peter Dutton, whom conservatives hoped would be conservative, inexplicably said yesterday that any inquiry into the harm of children through LGBTIQA+ child gender bending clinics was a “conscience vote” for his MPs.

Family First’s message to Mr Dutton is that it should not be a conscience vote to read the riot act to LGBTIQA+ gender clinics injecting children with puberty blockers without parental consent.

Family First calls on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to fight for the overturning of convictions against Australia’s convicted pro-life advocates Kathy Clubb and Graeme Preston.

This follow’s Donald Trump's decision this week to pardon 23 pro-life advocates who were unjustly convicted under the US’s so-called Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Trump’s commendable action underscores the importance of safeguarding the rights of citizens advocating for the sanctity of life.

President Trump emphasised the peaceful nature of these protests, stating, "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people."

He further described the group as "peaceful protesters" who were unjustly penalised for their advocacy.

This development prompts us to reflect on similar situations within Australia, particularly the cases of pro-life advocates Kathy Clubb and Graham Preston.

Both were convicted under laws prohibiting protests within exclusion zones around abortion mills.

In 2016, Clubb was arrested for attempting to hand a pamphlet to a couple outside a Melbourne clinic, while Preston faced charges for protesting within the exclusion zone of a Hobart clinic in 2014 and 2015.

Their appeals to the High Court were dismissed, with the court ruling that the laws served a legitimate purpose and outweighed concerns about freedom of speech within the zones.

This decision has been criticised for its implications on free speech and the ability to offer assistance to women considering abortion.

Pro-life leaders have denounced the ruling, stating it has grave implications for freedom of speech in Australia as well as the safety of women and children.

Family First agrees.

In light of President Trump's recent pardons, Family First calls upon Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to advocate for the overturning of the convictions of Kathy Clubb and Graham Preston.

Their peaceful pro-life advocacy should not be criminalised, and their actions were driven by a genuine concern for both unborn children and their mothers.

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The best way to stop the escalating pro-Hamas Islamist terrorist attacks on Australia’s Jewish community is for the Albanese Government to apologise for its anti-Israel stance and urgently change tack.

Family First National Director and New South Wales lead Senate candidate Lyle Shelton said the Government needed to turn around its position and begin to lead the nation in unequivocal support for the survival of the only democracy in the Middle East.

He also called for the suspects of bombings on Jewish property to be treated as terrorists under the law so their rights to legal representation could be restricted if authorities deemed it necessary. 

“The Albanese Government has bought into the lie that Israel’s war against Hamas is unjust when the nation has no alternative to defend itself from those who only want a one-state solution and to kill Jews ‘from the river to the sea’,” Mr Shelton said.

“Israel was attacked on October 7 by a barbaric Islamic death cult that is not only anti-Israel but anti-Western civilisation.

“The Albanese Government needs to realise that Israel is fighting a war on behalf of all of us and that it is in Australia’s interest to back Israel.

“Proof of this is the firebombing of a Jewish Synagogue in Melbourne, the home of a Jewish leader in Sydney, and now a Jewish childcare centre in Sydney.

“These horrific bombings and the continued attacks on Jewish businesses has Australia in the grip of its own Krystal Nacht, egged on by the Government’s anti-Israel stance.

“If anyone thinks these acts of home-grown Islamist terrorism will stop with attacks on Australian Jews, they are kidding themselves.

“Stopping Hamas supporters in Australia starts with helping Israel stop Hamas in Gaza, not by constantly undermining Israel’s prosecution of what is a terrible but just war.

“Anyone in western Sydney who thinks Hamas are the good guys should take a close look at the way uniformed gunmen and Gazans terrorised the already traumatised young women hostages as they were transferred to the Red Cross this week.

“People in western Sydney celebrating this and the release of terrorists from Israeli jails in exchange for innocent hostages are a million miles from the values which define Australians,” Mr Shelton said.

“The Albanese Government needs to make this clear so that all Australians are on the same page.

“Domestic terrorism will only end with the Government ending is equivocation on Israel’s war against Hamas.”

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