Allan Matheson Online Opinion

On August 11, 2007, Nalliah announced that the Lord had spoken to him and that he “could boldly declare that Prime Minister John Howard will be re-elected in the November election”.

For the Australian religious right the election campaign began earlier with the National Day of Thanksgiving. The Australian Christian Lobby then mobilised both politicians and people in the pews, to a television extravaganza in August. This was then followed by the Fatherhood Foundation’s September “National Strategic Summit on Marriage, Family and Fatherhood” in the Great Hall, in Parliament House.

And then came the prophet Nalliah.

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