League of Rights redirects here. For the British group, see British League of Rights
The first League of Rights was formed in South Australia in 1946. It developed from the Vote NO campaign conducted against Dr. Evatt’s continuing bid to change the Constitution in order to centralise more power in Canberra Evatt tried to do so, and failed, at the wartime 1944 referendum.
The League is a Christian-based service movement, that unreservedly accepts the Christian Law of Love. It does not seek political power, but is a type of political watchdog, equipped to warn the individual about threats to rights and freedoms, irrespective of the label of the government of the day.
The Australian League of Rights was established in 1960 when the separate Leagues in the States agreed to form one national movement. The establishment of The League of Rights in Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand resulted in an association called the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights in 1975.
For eight years the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights was an international chapter of the World anti-Communist League, participating in a number of international conferences in different parts of the world prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The League is not motivated exclusively by threats to individual freedom, It constantly upholds the vision of a world of expanding freedom and security for all, in which every individual can participate freely in association with his fellow man to help build the finest civilisation yet created.
No political movement can exist in a moral vacuum, and Australians have traditionally accepted that it is the Christian Faith that generated our heritage of representative government. While the League maintains a small full-time staff primarily motivated by Christian service, it is the extensive network of volunteers from all walks of life who form the backbone of the Movement.
The League of Rights seeks to help create a body of dedicated men and women who serve not for their own material gain, but as custodians of those truths and values which must form the basis of all successful efforts to defeat the enemies of human dignity and freedom.
The League encourages and equips individuals to independently exercise their own initiative in the service of freedom.
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