Fred Nile’s Australian Christian Democratic Party Forced Into Receivership
Image: Fred Nile and Lyle Shelton - Image: From Lyle Shelton's Facebook page.
There is no good news like when homophobes get their just desserts! News has trickled in that the Australian Christian Democratic Party has been forced into receivership and an administrator has been appointed “as a result of the board forming a view that the association was likely to become insolvent”.
The news comes after a particularly bad run for the party. In September 2020, cracks had already begun to appear when legal action was launched against founder Fred Nile, his wife and others, by party treasurer Charles Knox. According to court documents, Knox had accused them of invalidly claiming more than $100,000 in party funds for their own benefit.
Fred Nile Names Lyle Shelton As Successor
In April this year, Niles announced his retirement after 40 years in the NSW Parliament. Niles named Lyle Shelton would be his successor in Parliament.
Shelton himself has a history of targeting LGBTQI+ communities – as former head of the Australian Christian Lobby he was the leader of the ‘NO’ campaign against marriage equality and has also opposed Drag Queen story time events.
This is probably not the news that Shelton might have been hoping for as he stepped into Niles’ shoes and heads into the next NSW State Election.
Administrator Invites Grievances Related To Governance
According to the report in Eternity News, Schon G. Condon was appointed as administrator/manager under the orders of Justice Patricia Henry of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court.
The information was conveyed by Condon, in a notice to members sent on June 8. The letter said that, “In accordance with the Court Orders, I am required to convene an extraordinary general meeting of members to elect a new board which will take place in due course.”
“In addition to the calling of the meeting I am empowered to obtain and collate feedback from the association members in relation to any governance issue they perceive, as well as any issues relating to a person’s membership. Accordingly, if you have any comments, concerns or issues you would like to raise with me prior to the calling of the extraordinary general meeting, would you please provide these comments by 5pm on 15 June, 2021, by email to [email protected]”.
Social Media Pokes Fun
News of the Australian Christian Democratic Party having been forced into receivership was received with joy, with many users taking to social media to express their delight.
Pauline Pantsdown, the parody account of One Nation founder Pauline Hanson, shared the news on Twitter terming it as “The Golden Touch of Lyle Shelton”
The golden touch of Lyle Shelton pic.twitter.com/qfZ8S7wd3m
— Pauline Pantsdown (@PPantsdown) June 10, 2021
Another twitter user posted “How useless would you have to be to drive a religious organisation into the ground with the amount of tax loopholes they have available?”
https://twitter.com/kellyjcharlton/status/1403143414758010880?s=20
“Lyle has gone back into the closet to see is there is any money there. Lyle Shelton. A name so easily forgotten” quipped another user on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/maxiedexter/status/1403129836713832449?s=20
Shelton Focussed On Anti-LGBTQI+ Attacks
The affairs of the party seemed to be far from Shelton’s priorities as he busied himself with targeting trans and gender diverse Australians.
🏳️🌈 political activists, who run our education department, are determined to destroy what is normal. They have worked out that the quickest way is to indoctrinate our children. And it’s happening under federal & state Coalition governments. Vote CDP. https://t.co/rzfWRcD1iQ
— Lyle Shelton (@LyleShelton) June 10, 2021
Shelton shared a Daily Telegraph article that claimed that teachers had been told to avoid terms like husband and wife in school. “Political activists, who run our education department, are determined to destroy what is normal. They have worked out that the quickest way is to indoctrinate our children. And it’s happening under federal & state Coalition governments. Vote CDP,” Shelton railed.
A protest being planned against Shelton in Sydney next week also seemed to worry him as he claimed that he did not “hate” anyone and neither was he homophobic. He termed the protest as “cancel culture at work demonising & intimidating mainstream Australians who care about freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”
Where’s the sub-editor/editor? It’s Fred Nile (singular), not Fred Niles (plural). That should be known by this magazine after decades of Fred’s infamous venom, hatred and bigotry (additionally, we don’t need more than one Fred Nile ????).
Now all we need is for all the scary Hillsong politicians to removed state and federal.
Great News! As one writer stated “How is it possible for a Religion-based organisation to go broke? They Pay NO Taxes on anything, many have their members locked into inescapable contract to donate anything from 10% ro 20% of their income to the business – and let’s face it, religion is nothing more than a business for how else have they managed to accrue sich massive wealth – so much for Jesus’ instruction to “Give up everything” whilst those running these businesses amass such massive wealth but keep crying poor and it is not just the Roman Catholic Church for the Anglicans and all those ultra-right-wing, neo-fascist Fundamentalist Churches are up to their necks in money-grabbing. I well remember when the Anglican Church in Melbourne announced they had bought a building across Swanston St (The Nicholas Building) from their St Paul’s Cathedral for something like $6 million. A week or so later they announced a Fund Raising Programme to carry out work on the cathedral. When questioned this mob of money-grabbers told us “The pirchase of the Nicholas Building is part of the Anglican Church’s Real Estate Department and has nothing to do with the Cathedral!”
Religion has no place in Politics. If people want to observe religion that is fine but they have No Right to force their beliefs on others which is what Nile and his ilk tried to do. Today these Fundamentalist Pentecostalists, they haven’t the guts to start their own Party, are trying to stage a coup and take control of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Best news ever.It’s made my day.”Good riddance to bad rubbish'” is what we were taught in school.Very apt in this case. Ha Ha Ha
Couldn’t have happened soon enough!.