Australian Citizens Party
Australian Citizens Party | |
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| Abbreviation | ACP, Citizens Party |
| National Leader | Craig Isherwood |
| National Chairman | Ann Lawler |
| Founder |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Coburg, Victoria, Australia |
| Newspaper | The New Citizen |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Syncretic |
| International affiliation | LaRouche movement |
| Colours | Green-Brown |
| House of Representatives | 0 / 151 |
| Senate | 0 / 76 |
| Website | |
| citizensparty | |
The Australian Citizens Party (ACP), formerly the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC), is a minor political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement, founded and originally led American political activist and conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.
The ACP campaigns on "restoring Australia’s national and economic sovereignty", with a focus on banking reform, including a "Glass-Steagall" division of Australia’s banks separating commercial from investment banking; an amendment to the Banking Act guaranteeing Australian bank deposits against a "bail-in"; and a new government-owned bank, with a retail division operating in post offices. The ACP is federally registered with the Australian Electoral Commission.
The party has pushed conspiracy theories, including that international action on climate change and indigenous land rights are part of a conscious fraud masterminded by Prince Philip, as part of the British royal family's scheme to depopulate the planet. It ‘believes Prince Philip is trying to break up nation-states through the World Wide Fund for Nature and is involved in a "racist plot to splinter Australia"’.
Founded in 1988, the party has been led by Craig Isherwood ever since.