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WELCOME to my website and
thanks for your interest in FAMILY FIRST

FAMILY FIRST is a new political party and I am proud to be its first federal politician as well as its federal leader. 

It is hard to believe that three years have passed since I took my place in the Senate. Before my election not many Australians had heard about FAMILY FIRST, but I think we have come a long way since. And we certainly have big plans for the future!

Political commentator Glenn Milne wrote an article about FAMILY FIRST's arrival in Canberra and our achievements which you might be interested in reading. Click here to read article

As I said in my first speech in the Senate, there should not be a need for a political party called FAMILY FIRST.  But there is a need, because too often decisions made in the Federal Parliament do not put families first. Instead, it is families second and political agendas first.

For me, it’s pretty simple.  To build Australia, surely we need to be paying more attention to the wellbeing of families and making that our top priority.

What is most important to you in your life?  For me, it is my family – my wife Susan and three children James, Campbell and Gabrielle.

Growing up in a family of 16 children in Reservoir in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, I certainly know a fair bit about families.  My parents George and Shirley, who still live in the family home, were both only children, but loved kids so much they kept having them!

Imagine an Australia where we put the family first, where the first question we always ask is: “What’s best for our families? What’s best for our kids?”

Because ultimately, that is what is best for our great nation of Australia. If, by the presence of FAMILY FIRST in the Federal Parliament, we can persuade the major parties to make the future of families and their wellbeing the prism through which all policies are developed, FAMILY FIRST will have succeeded.  That is our goal.

With my very best wishes to you and your family,

Steve Fielding