While mums and dads are struggling with cost-of-living pressures, activists in our parliaments like Alex Greenwich are pursuing radical agenda.
During the past decade, the NSW State MP for the seat of Sydney has emerged as a prominent figure in campaigns that sideline the interests families trying to raise their children in the time-honoured traditions of Western civilisation.
Families want parliamentarians to take the pressure off, not compound their economic pain buy pushing radical social agendas on their children.
Greenwich’s emergence in a glossy photoshoot for DNA magazine and the resulting saturation publicity it generated in mainstream media was a further boost to the profile of a politician whose political agenda runs counter to the aspirations of mainstream mums and dads.
Greenwich's record is clear. He served as co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality in the lead-up to the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite, playing a key role in redefining what marriage means.
At its heart, this reform devalued the unique bond of a man and a woman united in marriage, and replaced it with a more fluid definition of "family". From the standpoint of mainstream mums and dads, this was not social progress, but a shift away from what has historically proven best for children: a married mother and a father raising them together.
Greenwich didn’t stop with redefining marriage. He now pushes broader legislative change which undermine parental rights, children’s rights and freedom of speech and religion.
He has made statements suggesting an overhaul of anti-discrimination laws in order to privilege identity agendas above parental rights and religious conscience. Laws intended to protect Australians of all beliefs may instead become a tool to suppress those who believe in mainstream family structures.
From the Family First perspective the consequences are profound. When public policy elevates identity rights above the rights of parents to choose education, to preserve faith traditions, or to maintain a male-female married household, then we signal to rising generations that the family institution is disposable.
Greenwich's work advances a cultural narrative in which the detached individual becomes the norm, and generations of children grow up outside the stable father-mother setting that research overwhelmingly links to better outcomes in emotional, behavioural and academic spheres.
It’s important to understand Greenwich’s political agenda.
The Family First Party has a different vision of human flourishing based in children having the right, wherever possible, to the love of both their mother and father.
Family First rejects Greenwich’s vision to fragment famial bounds and children’s rights by pushing for the legalisation of commercial surrogacy, where women are exploited to two men can purchase babies.
To be clear, Family First opposes surrogacy in all its forms, even when it is sought by heterosexuals. It is inherently exploitative but we note the strongest push for law reform seems to come from same-sex marriage political activists.
In short: Greenwich is not just another independent MP. He is a cultural agent of change with an anti-family agenda. Families, not identity politics, should shape our future. We will resist any legislation or social movement that erases the role of mums or dads, the rights of children and the enduring importance of the family headed by a married, monogamous, heterosexual couple self-sacrificing for the good of their children and ultimately the wider society.
Alex Greenwich represents a vision of Australia where family, faith, and moral order are replaced by self-interest and social experimentation. Every policy he champions, from weakening parental rights to redefining marriage and undermining faith-based freedoms, chips away at the foundations required for a strong nation.
Family First stands for something very different. We believe in restoring the family as the cornerstone of Australian life, protecting children from ideological agendas, and defending the right of parents to raise their children in line with their values.
This political agenda must be challenged with political action. That is why Family First will be vigorously contesting the next NSW election.
It’s time to draw a line in the sand. To end this cultural decay and defend the family, vote Family First, the party that will always put faith, life, family, and freedom first.