[7] The organisation's website states that its "primacies" are "The family as the basic unit of society," opposition to "excessive centralization," the "right to life" from fertilisation to natural death, patriotism, and "Judeo-Christian values.
The previous former national president, Peter Westmore, was a candidate at the 1975 federal election for the original Democratic Labor Party.
(Not to be confused with the Australian Family Movement, which was created as a conservative Christian political party in the 1970s by some supporters of the AFA and the NCC).
[15] Tony Abbott, who was Australia's Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015, became interested in politics in 1976 after attending a National Civic Council conference.
[19] Various media sources have reported that a NCC email campaign helped in part to secure Abbott's position as prime minister before the spill motion in February 2015.
The NCC describes its task as:[15] to expose and counter four key hostile ideologies in defence of human life and the family, inherent human rights and Australia as an independent, free nation: The NCC describes it's "5 Defining Principles" as:[15] In November 2014, former national president, Peter Westmore, attended his daughter Trish's marriage to her female partner Christy in New Zealand,[23] where same-sex marriage was made legal in 2013.