Liberal National party increasingly alert to attempts by the rightwing fringe to build influence since May’s federal election
One of that group, the former LNP president Bruce McIver, has previously said that social conservatives who didn’t like candidatesUnder Springborg, sources say, the party is taking a more active approach to vetting potential members.
However, this presents a particularly acute challenge given the way some existing members of the LNP operate in broad conservative circles. One party member said there is “a lot of discomfort” about the way these circles operate, including the extent of crossover with notional political rivals and those deemed persona non grata by the LNP.
Last year, former senator Amanda Stoker spoke at an event hosted by the Australian Taxpayers Alliance, a group with links to the Liberal Democrats and which employs Barclay McGain, who wasA group of LNP members known internally as the “Christian Soldiers” – having recruited widely in recent years – are still licking their wounds after Stoker was relegated on the ticket at the 2022 election. She subsequently lost her seat.
Some eyebrows were raised within the party when the Australian Christian Lobby hired as its Queensland director Rob Norman, a Pentecostal pastor from Adelaide who has previously. InDaily reported that Norman argued party membership gave churchgoers “the right to vote at meetings, and that will include the preselection of local candidates”.
South Australian Liberal party senator Alex Antic, who had run a “believe in blue” Christian recruitment drive in the state,
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