Anti-burqa advocate New South Wales MP Reverend Fred Nile has introduced a private members bill to the state’s parliament in his latest attempt to ban people from wearing full-face covering in public places.
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Fred Nile’s kooky survey in Bradfield
Fred Nile has sent out a survey to voters in Bradfield, asking whether they support or oppose statements like “Jesus Christ is the Son of God” an “Australia needs a ten-year moratorium on Muslim immigration”.
Lessons from a new German government
The recent Germany elections have provided a few lessons that Australia could learn. For example, a coalition should be a post-election decision, not a permanent state of affairs.
Bradfield, the land of true maverick conservatives
All 20 candidates in this Saturday’s Bradfield preselection must be pondering one major question: exactly what do local Liberal Party preselectors in a safe seat look for in a candidate?
Merkel looks for a narrower coalition
Germany votes on Sunday, with Christian Democrat chancellor Angela Merkel an unbackable favourite to be returned. But will the liberals distance themselves from the parties of the traditional left?
Nile expells Flash but he won’t be silenced
The Reverend “Flash” Gordon Moyes has been expelled from Fred Nile’s Christian Democrat Party.
Kim Il Nile v Dr Moyes: Two reverends go to war
Relations between the two Christian Democratic MPs in the NSW upper house, the Rev Fred Nile and the Rev Gordon Moyes, have deteriorated rapidly into state of all-out war, writes Alex Mitchell.
Fred Nile’s coup inside Christian Democrats
In extraordinary developments inside the Christian Democratic Party, Rev Fred Nile has become President for Life and his critics have been purged, writes Alex Mitchell.
The Tampa that’s just docked in Camden
You’d think a proposal to build a school in a small semirural village on the outskirts of Sydney would be just another planning issue. The Council would advertise the plan, residents might raise objections based on parking or traffic or whatever. What could religion possibly have to do with it?
