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12 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 13 December, 2017<br />

CAO, Gui Dong (William)<br />

The candidate was born in 1962 at Xian, China and migrated to Australia<br />

in 1990. He loved Australia as his new home and became a citizen in<br />

1997, and is now a Senior Pastor of a church he planted.<br />

He has an Honours Degree in Ministry from Bible College of Victoria<br />

(2009).<br />

William has helped as a volunteer for 5-6 years with Christian Democratic<br />

Party campaigns and was a candidate for CDP in 2017 Ryde Council elections,<br />

standing strong for local community.<br />

하나님께 영광 돌리고, 이웃을 섬깁시다. 우리 자녀들을 지켜주소서.<br />

Policy Snapshot<br />

CDP supports Freedom of Religion<br />

基 督 民 主 党 主 张 信 仰 自 由<br />

Advertisement<br />

CDP supports the Traditional meaning of Marriage<br />

基 督 民 主 党 坚 决 捍 卫 传 统 一 男 一 女 婚 姻 。<br />

CDP supports Access to Quality Education for ALL Children<br />

基 督 民 主 党 主 张 高 质 量 和 高 道 德 儿 童 教 育 , 反 对 所 谓 安 全 课 程<br />

Battle For Bennelong<br />

By-Election Saturday December 16,2017<br />

Australian Liberty Alliance’s Tony Robinson:<br />

“Never call me a politician”<br />

SITTING at the top of the<br />

ballot paper for this weekend’s<br />

by-election in Bennelong<br />

is candidate for<br />

Australian Liberty Alliance,<br />

Tony Robinson (pictured).<br />

CDP supports Freedom of Speech<br />

基 督 民 主 党 主 张 言 论 自 由<br />

CDP calls for Urgent Funding of Aged Care<br />

Facilities andopposes cuts to the Aged Pension<br />

基 督 民 主 党 支 持 为 老 年 护 理 和 老 年 退 休 金 提 供 紧 急 资 金<br />

“I’ve been called a<br />

racist, a bigot, homophobe,<br />

Islamaphobe<br />

but I would never want<br />

to be called a politician,”<br />

Mr Robinson<br />

said.<br />

“That’s one of the<br />

lowest words you can<br />

call anyone. It’s time<br />

for a democratic disruption,<br />

time to vote<br />

career politicians out.”<br />

Mr Robinson spent<br />

the first 30 years of his<br />

life in Willoughby and<br />

attended Marist Brothers<br />

North Shore in Miller<br />

Street, North Shore.<br />

After completing<br />

studies at UNSW, he<br />

specialised in orthopaedic<br />

surgery and<br />

continues to work as<br />

an orthopaedic surgeon<br />

in various states.<br />

Tony has strong family<br />

ties to Sydney and if<br />

elected, will relocate to<br />

the seat of Bennelong.<br />

Tony is married with<br />

three adult children<br />

and a recent grandfather.<br />

He was a proud supporter<br />

of the North<br />

Sydney Rugby League<br />

Bears, unfortunately<br />

now defunct.<br />

Mr Robinson was<br />

seething over the Liberal<br />

Party’s decision to<br />

place him last on their<br />

‘how to vote’ materials.<br />

He said the Liberal<br />

Party was effectively<br />

playing a game of “diversified<br />

multi-brand<br />

marketing” and this<br />

represented a new<br />

strategy in politics:<br />

“You produce one<br />

product and sell it under<br />

different brands.”<br />

“Strategists at the<br />

LNP dangle the Nationals<br />

as a carrot for<br />

country voters, while<br />

Australian Conservatives<br />

is the brand for<br />

frustrated, conservative<br />

Liberals,” he said.<br />

“In the end, it all ends<br />

up with Team Turnbull.<br />

Ever wondered why in<br />

2016 - and again in the<br />

Bennelong by-election<br />

- the Liberals put ALA<br />

last on their HTV cards,<br />

behind Labor, Greens<br />

and hard-left activist<br />

groups?”<br />

Mr Robinson said<br />

that in contrast, the<br />

Liberals and Australian<br />

Conservatives were<br />

preferencing eachother,<br />

with Fred Nile’s CDP<br />

“as the middle token.”<br />

“A vote for the Australian<br />

Conservatives<br />

means more of the<br />

same for the old boys,<br />

who pull the strings at<br />

LNP headquarters,” he<br />

said.<br />

“And more of the<br />

same for Australia:<br />

More Islam, globalisation,<br />

bureaucracy,<br />

immigration, welfareshoppers,<br />

political<br />

correctness and more<br />

public debt.”<br />

Tony Robinson encourages<br />

voters in<br />

Bennelong to vote 1<br />

for ALA and adds: “The<br />

preferences are up to<br />

each voter to decide.<br />

Today Liberals and Labor<br />

are both bad choices<br />

for our country.”<br />

The ALA’s website<br />

says the party’s members<br />

are “civic-minded<br />

Australians” who cannot<br />

remain passive<br />

while “damage is done<br />

to our nation, our communities<br />

and our families.”<br />

It says members of<br />

Australian Liberty Alliance<br />

make a stand for<br />

what is right, just and<br />

not negotiable; values<br />

our forefathers worked<br />

and died for.<br />

“We give civic-minded<br />

Australians the opportunity<br />

to become<br />

part of a new movement,<br />

a political party<br />

that offers Australian<br />

voters a new vision<br />

and hope for the future.”<br />

For more information,<br />

visit www.australianlibertyalliance.<br />

org.au<br />

Christian voters respond to Christian<br />

Democrats religious freedom policies<br />

RELIGIOUS freedom has emerged as a key issue for Christians in the lead up to this<br />

Saturday’s election day in Bennelong.<br />

The Weekly Times has learned<br />

that many Christians from a non-<br />

English background will put the<br />

issue first when they vote, as<br />

concerns emerge about how<br />

same sex marriage laws will impact<br />

on Christian churches.<br />

The concerns are expected to<br />

be a vote winner for The Christian<br />

Democrat candidate Gui<br />

Dong (William) Cao, who also<br />

stands for grassroots democracy<br />

and local government rights.<br />

Christian Democrats State Director<br />

Craig Hall told The Weekly<br />

Times that a vote for candidate<br />

Gui Dong (William) Cao is also a<br />

vote for traditional family values.<br />

“Top of our list is traditional<br />

marriage , freedom of religion,<br />

freedom of speech as well as<br />

traditional family values,” Mr Hall<br />

said.<br />

Mr Hall hopes voters will remember<br />

to support Ryde has<br />

from party leader the Rev Fred<br />

Nile.<br />

“We hope voters will recall how<br />

Reverend Fred Nile MLC stood<br />

by voters in Ryde and Hunters<br />

Hill to fight against forced council<br />

amalgamations.<br />

“This is central to our belief<br />

because we are a grassroots<br />

political party and Christianity<br />

itself started as a grassroots<br />

faith.”<br />

An important part of the Christian<br />

Democrats philosophy is<br />

support for older and retired<br />

people.<br />

“This means we will fight for<br />

quality funding for aged cut and<br />

we oppose cuts to services to<br />

aged care,” Mr Hall said.<br />

While the Christian Democrats<br />

are unashamedly Christian in<br />

policy and ethics, the party is<br />

strictly non-denomenational.<br />

“We don’t favour any denomination<br />

of ethnicity and we hope<br />

to have the support of the Orthodox<br />

Christian community<br />

in Bennelong as well as from<br />

Armenian, Chinese and Korean<br />

speaking Christians.”<br />

The Christian Democrats are<br />

expected to give first preferences<br />

to the Australian Conservatives.

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