As you read this, the final post for this year, a review of the Victorian Socialists, will have been published, marking the end of this election’s reviews.
Now, this time the reviews are somewhat incomplete: due to a combination of a shorter campaign and illness on the part of Maz and myself, time has run out. Thus, we have taken a cue from axvoter and elected to leave the best known parties out of our reviews. We will not be reviewing:
- The ALP
- The Greens
- Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
- The Coalition (the Liberal, National, the Country Liberal Party, and the Liberal National Party of Queensland1“We’re more of the National Liberal Country Party. Now, we can do you National and Liberal without the Country, or Liberal and Country without the National, or all three, concurrently or consecutively, but we cannot do you National and Country without the Liberal. The Liberal is compulsory – they’re all Liberal, y’see?”)
However, we have not left you entirely without aid in this area. We have assembled a collection of more than 20 election scorecards, assembled by various groups to show how the big parties (and sometimes PHON and other minor parties) are likely to vote in various areas of concern. We hope you find this useful.
In addition, we have updated the posts for Viesha Lewand, Nate Ritter and the Group T Independents: Raj Saini, Kirti Alle & Yashaswini Srinivas Kanakagiri.
Thank you all for reading and commenting and liking and sharing. It’s heart-warming that this little corner of the internet means so much to so many people 🙂
Thanks for all your hard work Maz and Loki!
I definitely appreciate the coverage. Thanks for everything 🙂
Immensely appreciated 💖 I miss ‘Cate’ even more during election times and your efforts to carry on her legacy makes me so so happy (and informed!)
Hear, Hear David S and Aruelle.
Wishing Loki and Maz a quick return to good health and a very well-earned rest to you both.
Please consider a “buy me a coffee” type app, so that we supporters of your concerted and considerable efforts can show our appreciation.
If you have, or set up, such a link, please share it.
Thanks so much for all your hard work, Loki and Maz.
Your analyses make voting so much easier.
Happy voting to you and everyone here!
Hey team, just wanted to say thanks so much for your efforts on this. I come back to you election after election.
Just stumbled upon this website (and Cate Speaks) today while researching the independents. Appreciate your work immensely!
Thank you for all your efforts. I very much appreciate you reading the policies of the nastier parties so that I don’t have to. I also appreciate the backgrounds you give on some of the parties.
Adding my voice to the thanks. I avoid the news for my mental health, but I always vote below the line (seriously, why doesn’t the line bend down and run below the independents so they’re all above the line, so we can vote for them at the same level as parties?) so your posts are absolutely essential for me to know who these people are. Thank you so much!
I respect the lofty ambitions of individual independents for Senate, but I assume that would make the Senate paper more longer (horizontally) than it already is.
Echoing all of the above gratitude for the time and effort this takes – it is truly appreciated and is an excellent resource. Thank you!!!
As an ongoing resource, I am sure people can find information on the major parties from your previous election posts (so makes sense to focus your energy!). Long-time fan of the blog but am now an Economics teacher, so I put it on the list of websites for my students to check with our pre-election research. 🙂
I certainly hope so, but I am still disappointed that I wasn’t able to give the coalition’s nuclear power policy the pasting it deserved