Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Advance Australia

Mr FOWLES (Burwood) (13:10): It is my sad duty today to talk a bit about a movement, or a political party, that has recently reared its ugly head in my community and in communities in the southern and eastern suburbs. This mob are known as Advance: Front and Centre, and they are a rabble with an interesting collection of policy positions, including being pro nuclear, anti-vax—

A member interjected.

Mr FOWLES: A terrific combination. They want to double Australia’s defence spending, and they seem to have a particular difficulty with anyone who could be characterised as left, centre-left, woke, inner city or anything of that vein. They are anti electric cars, they are anti the Communist Party and they have been putting out the most offensive and racist billboards in my part of the world, and I just wanted to draw the Parliament’s attention to them because these people are just awful.