Paul McCausland (centre), Christopher Cowell (left) and Paul Cocks make up the lead three candidates for the Australian Christians ticket for the coming local government elections. Photo: Jarryd Rowley.
Despite being drawn last for the ballot, Wagga’s Australian Christians ticket is confident of winning a seat at the September local government elections and keeping an eye on Wagga Wagga City Council.
Group leader and No. 1 on the ticket, Paul McCausland, said the members of the Australian Christians ticket had joined to represent the average ratepayer and citizen who may normally be overlooked.
“We’re not of the elite,” Mr McCausland said.
“We want to keep an eye on what’s happening in council with regard to integrity. We’re there to keep it straight and we’re also there to help the community.
“We’re going to make sure they [the council] aren’t focused on things like arts and crafts because there’s a tendency that gets a great swing there.
“It takes up a lot of time at the council meetings because they’re trying to justify it, but if you look around, our roads are in absolute destruction. We just want to keep them honest.”
Mr McCausland said the Australian Christians ticket was filled with blue-collar workers looking to keep integrity in Wagga intact.
Second of the ticket, Christopher Cowell, echoed Mr McCausland’s sentiment, describing the Christians as primarily focused on people within the community.
“The Christian parties have more to do with the moral support of the community, without going too far into the far left-wing extremist abuse you see with gender fluidity and pornography for children,” he said.
”All these extreme things that they’re trying to normalise these days are so far off the integrity normal people have.
“It’s become mainstream. The minorities make the most noise and pretend they’re mainstream. But normal people don’t really like that lifestyle. They accept it but don’t want to get involved in it. They don’t want it shoved in their face, either.”
Third on the ticket, Paul Cocks, said one of the biggest issues his team would advocate for was appropriate responses to the ongoing housing crisis.
“I’ve divided all the people in NSW into the amount of houses that we’ve got in NSW and we’ve come up with a figure of 2.7 people per house,” he said.
“What’s the housing crisis, how deep should we be thinking and where should we be going to fix it? Rather than just building more houses, I think there’s a lot more that needs to be done.”
The local government elections will be held on 14 September, with pre-polling opening on 7 September.
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