The Family First Party is a socially conservative political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council (Robert Brokenshire and Dennis Hood). The party's federal chairman is Bob Day.
Elected to the Senate at the 2004 federal election on two percent of the primary vote in Victoria, Steve Fielding failed to gain re-election at the 2010 federal election. His term ended on 1 July 2011, after which the Family First Party no longer had federal parliamentary representation.
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