Yellow Vest Australia Australian Liberty Alliance (2015–2019) | |
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Abbreviation | YVA[a] |
President | Debbie Robinson |
Founded | 28 July 2015[b] |
Dissolved | 4 September 2020[3] |
Headquarters | South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Membership (2016) | c. 2,000[4] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing[6][13][14] to far-right[15] |
Party affiliation | Party for Freedom[c] |
Colours | Blue and Red |
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Yellow Vest Australia (YVA), until 9 April 2019 known as the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), was a minor right-wing to far-right[19] political party in Australia. The party was founded by members of the Q Society and has been described as the political wing of Q Society.[20] The leader was Debbie Robinson (President), who was also national president of the Q Society.[21] On 4 September 2020, the Australian Electoral Commission removed the Yellow Vest Australia from the registered political party list.[3]
The party's core policy was opposition to Islam, with policies focusing on Muslim immigration such as enforcing "integration over separation", replacing multiculturalism with an integrated multi-ethnic society and stopping public funding for "associations formed around foreign nationalities". They vowed to "stop the Islamisation of Australia".[21] Party president Debbie Robinson has made a number of Islam-critical statements including that Islam is "a totalitarian ideology that does not separate its law from its religious entity...Slowly but surely our Judeo-Christian values, ethics and customs are being replaced" and warned that "If we continue to tolerate Islam without understanding it, Australia as a free, secular democracy will be lost".[citation needed]
Other policies included promoting smaller government, privatising public broadcaster SBS and scaling down the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, opposing taxpayer-funded subsidies for renewable energy, promoting advanced nuclear energy, ending dual citizenship for new citizenship applicants, simplifying the tax system with less income tax and a stronger focus on GST, improving public healthcare by more efficient cooperation with the private healthcare sector, advancing the 'natural family', and restoring civil society.[citation needed]
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