{"id":544156,"date":"2010-04-26T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/family-first-nsw-appoints-leading-business-executive-as-chairman\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:51:48","slug":"family-first-nsw-appoints-leading-business-executive-as-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544156","title":{"rendered":"Family First NSW appoints leading Business Executive as Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

27 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Parliamentary Leader of Family First NSW<\/span>, Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC<\/span>, has announced that the State Council of Family First NSW<\/span> conducted an executive search and then elected one of Australia’s leading Christian businessmen as the NSW <\/span>Chairman of Family First.<\/p>\n

“I believe Parliamentary leaders of political parties should never also hold the position of Executive Chair in key boards,” said Dr Moyes. “That always leads to a concentration of power and dictatorship amongst those who hold key leadership positions. Political parties should always be led by elected lay leaders, and politicians should see their role as being servants of the party.”<\/p>\n

Consequently, Family First NSW<\/span> conducted an executive search, and then conducted an election that resulted in former Commonwealth Bank Executive, and Chair of many Bank subsidiary Boards, Mr. Neville Cox, being elected.<\/p>\n

“Neville has had many years experience as a senior executive in the banking and finance industry. He is currently a director of several companies in the banking, superannuation and technology industries as well as not-for-profit and church related organisations.”<\/p>\n

“One of Neville’s several involvements is Regional Director for Australasia for Focus on the Family. There is good symmetry between the political party and Focus on the Family because both hold to identical values placing the paramount interest of Australian families”, commented Dr Moyes.<\/p>\n

In addition to his directorships, he is passionate about developing leaders and mentors senior business executives and leaders in Christian ministry. As a committed Christian, Neville is involved in many local congregational activities with his schoolteacher wife, Marilyn. He also heads the committee behind the forthcoming Sydney Prayer Breakfast.<\/p>\n

Dr Moyes concluded, “The sad history of many micro-political parties with only one parliamentary representative is that the parliamentarian is not accountable to a strong external figure and Board. This leads to a loss of transparency and accountability in the ongoing operation and viability of political parties”.<\/p>\n

With members in both Federal and state parliaments, Family First is a macro-party, the fifth largest in the nation. It has a good chance in winning two Senate seats in the Federal election. Its formal recognition as a political party in NSW<\/span> by the Australian Electoral Commission opens the way for it to be a force in the next State Election as well. END<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

27 April 2010 The Parliamentary Leader of Family First NSW, Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC, has announced that the State Council of Family First NSW conducted an executive search and then elected one of Australia’s leading Christian businessmen as the NSW Chairman of Family First. “I believe Parliamentary leaders of political parties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}