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.
GROUPS
- Coalition
- Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 - Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013 - Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC) - Australia’s Voice — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - 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
- Keo Vongvixay & Taylor Hernan (formerly the Socialist Equality Party, now deregistered) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 - Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Family First Party — Official Website
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Australian Democrats — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 - Victorian Socialists — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) - 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 - Gerard Rennick People First / Heart Party
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Heart Party (formerly Informed Medical Options Party and Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
- Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Raj Saini, Kirti Alle & Yashaswini Srinivas Kanakagiri — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025
Ungrouped Candidates:
- Heena Sinha Cheung — Official Site — Commentary: 2025
- Susantha Abeysinghe — no official site — Commentary: 2025
- Viesha Lewand — Official Site (Facebook group) — Commentary: 2025
- Lawrence Harvey — Official Site (Facebook) — Commentary: 2025
- Cory Corbett — Official Site — Commentary: 2025
- K Black — no official site — Commentary: 2025
- David Van — Official Site — Commentary: 2025
- Nate Ritter — Official Site — Commentary: 2025
From other sources, I’ve been led to believe that:
– Trumpet of Patriots is the former Federation Party, with added Clive Palmer
– Heart is the former Informed Medical Opinions Party (and is a separate party from Rennick’s group, but running a joint ticket)
FWIW
Welp, I really screwed those up. Thanks for bringing these to my attention, I’ve fixed what needed fixing.
Got to say, respect for independent candidates in the Senate having that hill to climb. Misplaced optimism for some of them, though really wonder what is in the mind of candidates who say nothing about themselves (got some spare $ to spend on a cheeky quiet Senate run?).
But looking at the first one Heena Cheung personally made me admire them for running. My no.1 vote is important to me because I like to show a minor party (or perhaps even independent) candidate that I saw what they were doing. For those who are actually representing something, I appreciate them being part of democracy (regardless of the chance of winning).
K Black in particular strikes me in this way. I mean, at least three years ago James Bond was running as a joke. (I will miss him and Max Dicks.)
I am 99.9% sure that Susantha Abeysinghe has an official site under “Abeysinghe Susantha Yarramanward” on Facebook. The name dates back to a run for Yarraman ward in Greater Dandenong last year (where they answered no questions that the Dandenong star sent them).
And its clear the page has pivoted to a Federal run with both comparisons between Australia and the Weimar Republic AND plans for both artificial mountains and a massive inland irrigation scheme.
Not that this is a particularly USEFUL official site mind you.
We have reached out to him via the facebook page, so far with no more luck than the Dandenong Star has had. If he hasn’t responded by the time we finish everyone else, we’ll do his profile based on that.