Meet The Candidate Dr Amanda Nickson, Family First Party

Dr Amanda Nickson is a wife, mother of three adult children, a social worker, a Pastor, an author and a speaker.

"I have chosen to stand with Family First as its candidate for Dawson because they are a party whose core values of Family, Faith, Life, Freedom and Enterprise match with mine," Dr Nickson said.

"Strong families form the fundamental building blocks of local communities, which strengthen towns, cities and regions.

"Family First believes human life begins at conception and should be protected from that moment until natural death. Australian women deserve support, care and choices to carry and raise their children, and will work to create an Australia where every mother and baby receives gold-plated support, and abortion becomes unthinkable."

Amanda has a strong family focus, as the basis for the health of Australian society, and is disappointed that family values are not seen as important by the major parties as well as by many of the minor parties.

"Children are our future and must be protected. Modern gender ideologies are being forced upon vulnerable children causing great harm.

"Family First supports restoring the true definition of male and female, restoring the meaning of ‘woman’ in the Sex Discrimination Act and keeping biological males out of women’s sport and spaces."

Amanda chose to do social work as her profession as an extension of her Christian faith, being able to help and serve others at their point of need. She has worked in a variety of positions in government, non-government organisations, academia and private practice.

Her Christian faith and beliefs are at the core of everything she does. She is on the leadership team of her local church and is involved in women’s ministry in numerous churches and women’s groups.

"Christian schools are under attack by progressive activists resulting in Christian parents having to fight to educate their children according to their faith," she said.

Dr Nickson said that the number one issue for the upcoming election is the cost-of-living crisis.

"This is a crisis that we all feel. We feel it via housing affordability, we feel it at the grocery store, we feel it at the petrol pump and we especially feel it in our electricity bills. This is a crisis that was caused by the major parties.

"For a country to remain prosperous, it requires cheap, reliable, clean and secure energy. Australia should be leading the world in this area. We have coal, gas, oil and uranium in abundance. We are so energy resource rich and yet successive government policies stop us from utilising these resources ourselves, instead opting for foreign-provided, expensive and unreliable renewables.

"Family First believes Australian resources should be used by and for Australians. The virtue-signalling obsession with renewables will bankrupt the country, destroying our security and environment along with it. We simply cannot afford to let that happen.

"Australians deserve affordable electricity, not empty promises and higher bills.

"It’s time to end the renewable rort and put Families First."

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Dr Amanda Nickson, Family First candidate for Dawson. Photo supplied

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