The Weekly Times - 13th December, 2017

14 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 13 December, 2017
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Battle For Bennelong
By-Election Saturday December 16,2017
Australian Conservatives’
debut in Bennelong
Better, not bigger
WESLEY
FOLITARIK
BENNELONG
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THERE’S a new force in the Australian political
landscape, the Australian Conservatives, which
will be running its first ever candidate Joram Richa
at the Bennelong by-election this weekend.
Richa, a 25-year-old
Maronite Catholic from
Hunters Hill, was a captain’s
pick by party founder,
South Australian Senator
Cory Bernardi.
“We do need principles
and integrity back in our
political system. We need
to give people faith in politics
again,” Mr Richa said.
“Secondly, there’s a
growing debt crisis, a
looming debt crisis that
Australia faces in the very
near future.
“The next major issue is
the issue of family and the
promotion of stronger families
and also the issue of
radical gender theory that
is attacking our childrens’
minds.”
He said the Labor and
Liberal parties had failed
the people of Bennelong
“in a number of ways unfortunately
but firstly just
addressing the rising cost
of living.”
“Their campaign has been
focused more so on attacking
eachother than actually
addressing these issues,”
Mr Richa said.
“I suppose the other issue
is the majority of the people
in Bennelong voted ‘No’
in the same-sex marriage
survey – there is a strong
conservative voice in the
electorate and this voice is
being completely ignored in
the current campaign.”
“That’s what I’m here for,”
Mr Richa said, adding he
would “absolutely” represent
that voice.
The Australian Conservatives
are impressively transparent
on policy platform.
Apart from traditional pillars
of conservatism that
form the key planks of its
manifesto, the party is also
advocating the biggest and
most obvious ‘no brainer’ in
the discussion around energy
policy.
At the end of November,
Senator Bernardi moved in
the Australian Senate to repeal
the blanket ban on exploring
a nuclear fuel cycle
for Australia.
Senator Bernardi explained
to the senate that
his home state of South
Australia was the equivalent
of a world superpower in
uranium resources, and for
its own economic benefit
needed a nuclear fuel cycle
to grow the state economy.
He said the Bill aimed to
correct an “act of economic
vandalism” and “environmental
self-harm” perpetrated
by the Australian
Greens.
“They pretend that the
environment is their thing,
but it’s not. It’s actually
about economic vandalism
– that’s their thing,” Senator
Bernardi said.
“The most telling argument
is that 19 years ago,
they dogmatically insisted
that there be a prohibition,
on even the investigation,
on even entertaining the
thought of nuclear power in
this country.”
Mr Richa is placed 10th
on the 12-candidate ballot
paper for the Bennelong
by-election.
WESLEY FOLITARIK is pictured front centre at the Sustainable Australia
party launch at Eastwood oval with supporters including party president
William Bourke standing right next to him. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
Dick Smith supports & endorses
Sustainable Australia Party
Famous Australian environmentalist
and entrepreneur Dick Smith is an
enthusiastic supporter of Sustainable
Australia and has joined as a member.
He endorses the Party’s Bennelong
candidate Wesley Folitarik who
claims to be the only local residential
candidate living in Bennelong.
Wesley is a professional urban planner
and a passionate advocate for
the Bennelong community having a
greater say on the future to ensure
better, not bigger development.
He says the four main issues are
jobs, housing, planning and the environment.
Wesley says “I’m serious about secure
jobs in a more diverse economy,
affordable housing for first home
buyers and renters, better planning to
save Bennelong from overdevelopment
and a sustainable environment
and population”.
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