Jan Pile, Rise Up Australia Party, lead Senate candidate for the Northern Territory.

 
Jan Pile was born in Kimba, South Australia, in 1955, the eldest of four children. Jan believes she was very fortunate to grow up in the idyllic South Australian country town of Lucindale on her parent’s sheep farm.
Jan is a sixth generation Australian and is proud to include among her ancestors devout Bible Christians, who set sail from the Isle of White in 1836 in search of religious freedom in the new colony. They built the first Chapel of any denomination in South Australia.
Jan is also very proud that both of her Grandfathers fought under the Australian flag in WWI. The diary of her paternal grandfather which he kept throughout the war, including entries written while he was in the trenches at Gallipoli, is preserved in the National War Museum in Canberra.
Jan left Lucindale for Adelaide in 1973 to become an Art Teacher. She received her Diploma of Teaching in 1977, majoring in Fine Art, and after teaching for four years in the country she returned to Adelaide to complete her Bachelor of Education, majoring in Painting.
In December 1981, Jan married her husband in the Lucindale Catholic Church.
In 1989 Jan, her husband and two small sons moved to Alice Springs, and a third son was born in Alice. The family have been proud Territorians ever since!
While living in Alice Springs, Jan received a strong conversion and entered the Catholic Church. Despite her forebears, she had not been a Church-goer until this time, but her experience led her to many very close relationships with the Aboriginal people living in Communities near Alice Springs. Jan felt called by God to help relieve a sense of hopelessness and despair she encountered in some of these Communities, by encouraging these beautiful people in their strong faith and leading Pilgrimages to places of religious significance both in Australia and overseas, including the Holy Land, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Medjugorje in Bosnia.
Jan and her family moved to Darwin in 2000.
Jan has fought for many years for the rights of the most vulnerable in our society. She fought publicly against the infamous euthanasia law which was passed in the Northern Territory in 1995, speaking against this law on radio and in newspaper articles. The law was repealed in 1997.  She has a special love for the aborted babies and great compassion for the terrible grief experienced by their mothers and is part of a team trying to establish a Pregnancy Problem House in Darwin.  For many years, Jan and a small group have gathered weekly to pray outside the Royal Darwin Hospital, where sadly, over thirty abortions take place every week.
She believes that the Rise up Australia Party is God’s answer for Australia, and in the spirit of her strong and courageous Christian forebears, Jan will fight for the God-given rights and freedoms of all Australians, especially those in the Northern Territory, her home of 24 years.
Email Contact: janpile@riseupaustraliaparty.com

I have heard Rise Up Australia Party messages broadcast on Darwin's 97 seven (97.7 MHz on the F.M. Band, http://darwins97seven.org.au/) as a station sponsor for a few days now.

I have done web searches on all the Rise Up Australia Party candidates for the Northern Territory and come up with nothing else. More information on the Rise Up Australia Party, including their 26 policy principles, can be found on their website: http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/ (the main source of information for this post).

Posted 2 September 2013

© Ken Glasgow 2013

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