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Uncle Steve’s home movies

Friday 16 November 2007, 1:53 pm

The Editor

Categories: Australia Decides '07, Religion

Tags: doorknocking, family, FamilyFirst, PentecostalChurch, SteveFielding

Steve Fielding’s latest Uncle Arthur-style home movie is up on his website, and its good to have a new dose of his folksy, self-shot stupidness to focus our minds a week out from the election.

In this installment of Uncle Steve’s home movies we meet a mother holding a baby who has been doorknocked by Fielding in suburban Melbourne and, magically, agrees with everything he says. Reduction in petrol tax? Yep. Increase in baby bonus for third child? Yep. You see, it’s all about “families”, or “for the little one’s future” as the doorknockee says.

However, I can’t help but wonder what the poor lady would’ve said if Steve was upfront about Family First’s real policy agenda. Total abolition of women’s right to choose to have an abortion? Ummm. Ostracism of homosexual people? Ummm. Creationism taught in schools? Ummm. Total alignment of Australian public policy with the values of the Pentecostal Church? Ummm.

I can’t tell you how much I hope Steve knocks on my door next week.

7 Comments

Grendel (Friday 16 November 2007, 2:40 pm) #

Lachlan,

I notice that Steve Fielding’s personal website displays the Commonwealth Coat-of-Arms prominently at the upper left of his index page. I thought only the official parliamentary web page (not a personal one) could have that on it - and he’s disgraced it by using a poor quality jpeg to boot.

“The Commonwealth Coat of Arms is the pre-eminent mark of Commonwealth authority, power and function. Its use, with a few limited exceptions, is limited to the Commonwealth Parliament, the Australian Government and the Federal Courts. The Arms are not in the public domain.”

“Permission to use the Commonwealth Coat of Arms in other than the context of denoting Commonwealth authority and property, is granted by this department, on a case by case basis, but usually in only two circumstances, to sporting teams representing Australia in international competition, and for educational purposes.”

“Use of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms without permission may be in breach of
sections 53 (c) and (d) of the Trade Practices Act 1974, Section 145.1 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 or Section 39 (2) of the Trade Marks Act 1995.”
Jimmy Scullin (Friday 16 November 2007, 6:23 pm) #

O/T but check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAOUKX-Myc0

Look out for the cameo at the end.
brokenleftleg (Friday 16 November 2007, 8:17 pm) #

Funny how she had a crucifix around her neck. Maybe she goes to pastor Danny Nalliah’s sermons about evil muslims.
Jeremy (Saturday 17 November 2007, 9:58 am) #

“I can’t tell you how much I hope Steve knocks on my door next week.”

Me too.
Bridgit Gread (Saturday 17 November 2007, 10:52 am) #

If Fielding knocks on my door he’ll just get harrangued, but if he knocks on my father’s door then he might meet his God sooner than he expects.
fred (Saturday 17 November 2007, 2:37 pm) #

FF have 14 candidates in SA.
3 are women.
That’s a very weird family structure.
GrodsCorp » Email to Steve Fielding (Saturday 17 November 2007, 4:46 pm) #

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