Australian Citizens Party

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The Australian Citizens Party (ACP), formerly the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC), is a minor political party in Australia headquartered in Coburg, Victoria. It was founded in 1988 by Craig Isherwood and Maurice Hetherington and is led by Craig Isherwood and Robert Barwick. The ACP campaigns on "restoring Australia’s national and economic sovereignty", with a focus on foreign policy independence from the US and UK, and banking reform, including a new government-owned bank with, with a retail division operating in post offices, a focus on banking reform, a "Glass–Steagall" division of Australia's banks separating commercial from investment banking; an amendment to the Banking Act guaranteeing Australian bank deposits against a "bail-in". The ACP is federally registered with the Australian Electoral Commission and publishes an in-house newspaper, The New Citizen, and a weekly subscription magazine, the Australian Alert. The CEC was affiliated with American political activist...

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