Australian Citizens Party

The Australian Citizens Party (ACP), formerly the Citizens Electoral Council of Australia (CEC), is a minor political party in Australia headquartered in Coburg, Victoria. It was founded in 1988 by Craig Isherwood and Maurice Hetherington and is led by Craig Isherwood and Robert Barwick.

The ACP campaigns on "restoring Australia’s national and economic sovereignty", with a focus on foreign policy independence from the US and UK, and banking reform, including a new government-owned bank with, with a retail division operating in post offices, a focus on banking reform, a "Glass-Steagall" division of Australia's banks separating commercial from investment banking; an amendment to the Banking Act guaranteeing Australian bank deposits against a "bail-in".

The ACP is federally registered with the Australian Electoral Commission and publishes an in-house newspaper, The New Citizen, and a weekly subscription magazine, the Australian Alert.

The CEC was affiliated with American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the international LaRouche Movement, and pushed conspiracy theories, including that international action on climate change and indigenous land rights was part of a fraud masterminded by Prince Philip, as part of the British royal family's scheme to depopulate the planet. It ‘believes Prince Philip is trying to break up nation-states through the World Wide Fund for Nature and is involved in a "racist plot to splinter Australia"’.

More recently, the ACP has gained attention for its grass roots campaigns promoting its policies, including retaining cash transactions, defending sacked Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, and saving regional banking services, as well as for its strong defence of the Australia-China relationship.