Please note that all links to commentaries predating the 2022 election are hosted on Cate Speaks, only more recent reviews are hosted on this site. In addition, Queensland is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
- Socialist Alliance — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2010 - Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 - Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC) - FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency — Official Site
Commentary: 2025 — 2022 — Created by the merger of:- Science Party — Commentaries: 2019 — 2016
- Pirate Party Australia — Commentaries: 2019 — 2013
- Secular Party of Australia — Commentaries: 2019 — 2013 — 2010
- Climate Emergency Action Alliance: Vote Planet
- Climate Change Justice Party
- Australian Progressives — Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2016
- Democracy First
- Australia’s Voice — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Jacqui Lambie Network — Official Site
Commentaries: 2019 — 2016 - Gerard Rennick People First / Katter Australian Party
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Katter Australian Party — Official Site
Commentaries: none
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
- Australian Democrats — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 - Coalition
- Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Great Australian Party / Heart Party
- The Great Australian Party — Official Site (archived on Web Archive)
Commentary: 2022 — 2019 - Heart Party (formerly Informed Medical Options Party and Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019
- The Great Australian Party — Official Site (archived on Web Archive)
- Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013 - Family First Party — Official Website
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 - The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Sustainable Australia Party – Universal Basic Income (formerly the Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption and the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013 - Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Ungrouped Candidates:
- Gilbert Holmes — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Danny Donohue — Official Site (Facebook page) — Commentary: new candidate
- Duke Wong — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Jason Brown — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
Congratulations on getting all states out so fast. Its a huge job, and well appreciated. I’ve thoroughly studied this page as I’ll demo through these notes:
Socialist Alliance 2022 link missed https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/06/socialist-alliance/. 2019 doesn’t work and is here: https://www.catespeaks.net/politics/federal-election-2019-meet-the-victorian-socialists-and-the-socialist-alliance/
2019 is Australia First link not the right one for Family First, which existed 2002 to 2017 then merged 2019 with Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives, and the commentary is a hoot so we really want this one https://www.catespeaks.net/politics/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-conservatives/
For https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_First_Party the only Queenslanders that needed to know recently were electing an MP for Longman in 2019. They aren’t active federally.
But you WILL hear “Australia First Alliance” which is the “freedom coalition” for joint senate tickets between Gerard Rennick’s People first, HEART, and the Libertarian Party. John Ruddick proposed this plan in February and the outcome of a summit for likeminded parties was announced March 5. One Nation and Trumpet of Patriots didn’t attend. They left it open for other “Freedom parties” to negotiate with them.
Only the NSW senate ticket (position I) actually has the three AFA parties jointly. HEART’s other two joint tickets are just with the Libertarians (position F in ACT) and as above, just with Cullerton’s GAP in QLD (position K, GAPs only senate race outside their home turf of WA.) The Libertarians are taking part in all eight Senate races, six on their own ticket and those two joint ones, NSW and ACT.
In Queensland, Gerard Rennick, a senator elected in 2019 on the LNP ticket who federally registered People First last December, is actually on a joint ticket with Katter’s Australian Party’s senate candidate Robert Loyd. Katter Country is huge but a wide swathe across Queensland only, as shown in the map on wiki, so KAP can be easily overlooked by interstate commentators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katter%27s_Australian_Party
I can’t click on 2022 (VIC) for the Greens but found it https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/11/24/the-greens-2/, The other 2022 link is fine though, as is every other link in this magnificant collection. Thankyou.
Thank you so much for the amount of work you’ve put in not just finding these errors, but also what the right answers for each of them are.
* Fixed the Socialist Alliance one, that was a coding error on my part
* With Family First, the mistake there was that they actually didn’t run at all in 2019, so there shouldn’t have been anything listed at all there
* The Katter stuff was actually there in the source I was drawing from, but I missed it out of simple impatience. Corrected now
* The Greens one was another coding error, and should work fine now
We’re going to have to reckon with this Australia First Alliance thing, but more research will be required