Exclusive: Some of Australia's most extreme Christian-right parties have withdrawn from politics, claiming the election of Prime Minister Scott Morrison had rendered them redundant by filling the 'vacuum' in Christian-conservative politics auspol
Former senator Cory Bernardi - who quit the Liberal Party under Malcolm Turnbull’s reign and later established the Australian Conservatives - also attributed, in part, the demise of his own party last year to the rise of Mr Morrison.
Like Rise Up, the Australian Conservatives were deregistered weeks after the election, with Mr Bernardi conceding at the time that many of its potential voters “breathed a sigh of relief that a man of faith and values was leading the Liberals back to their traditional policy platform”.Mr Morrison is Australia's first Pentecostal Prime Minister and a proud member of the Horizon mega-church.
On Saturday, a spokesman for Mr Morrison said: “The Morrison government governs for all Australians and was democratically elected by Australians to get on with the job of securing Australia’s future in the face of the many challenges our nation faces, both domestic and international.” The Sri-Lankan born Mr Nalliah, who runs the Reformation Fire Harvest Ministries church, said that he had not sought to join the Liberals but would “definitely” vote for the party. He said Rise Up would continue as an advocacy group and would press the Liberal Party to the right on issues of multiculturalism, freedom of speech, abortion law and, possibly, on gay marriage.
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