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Continuing in the spirit of Cate Speaks

Author: Loki (Page 5 of 10)

Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party

November 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: www.justiceparty.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter — YouTube — Instagram
Previous Names: none
Slogans: It’s Just Common Sense!
Themes: Harsher sentencing for criminals, end animal cruelty and legalise euthanasia
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Bellarine, Cranbourne, Melton, Point Cook, Polwarth, Ripon, South Barwon, South West Coast, Werribee, Yan Yean
Preferences: Only one pattern emerges from the rather chaotic preferencing of DHJP: if you’re a major party, they hate you. The Coalition, the Greens and the ALP are placed last – and often jumbled together – in every region. Other than that, they appear to have drawn names from a hat.
Previous Reviews: 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016>

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation

November 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: www.onenation.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: One Nation
Pauline Hanson’s United Australia Party
Slogans: We’ve got the guts to say what you’re thinking
If you want to change the government, change who you send there
Themes: Oppose vaccine mandates. Reduce immigration. No Net Zero. Protect and restore “the individual rights and fundamental freedoms of all Australians”.
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: none.
Preferences: One Nation likes to mix it up a little, but certain patterns emerge: their top five preferences always go to some ordering of the Coalition, the Angry Victorians, the UAP, Family First and Freedom. Companions and Pets hold the sixth spot in every region except Western Metro, where the Group U Independents get in above them. After them, there’s another mixed bag of four, consisting of Shooters Fishers and Farmers, DLP, Lib Dems and Health Australia. The next two spots are always Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party and Sustainable Australia. After that, there’s a brief island of predictability: the New Dems, Legalise Cannabis, Transport Matters, Sack Dan Andrews and Animal Justice are in the same order on every ticket. There’s another swapping pair of Reason and Victorian Socialists, and finally, at the very bottom, yet another swapping pair of the Greens and the ALP.
Previous Reviews: 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 — all these are on Cate Speaks

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United Australia Party

November 15, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter — YouTube
Previous Names: Palmer United Party
Slogans: Save Australia
Themes: Save Australia, although from whom and for whom is less clear
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: none
Preferences: For a party that likes to vilify both the ALP and the LNP, you’d never know it from their preferences. The Coalition gets top billing, followed by One Nation, Family First and Freedom. The only variations to this top four is Eastern Victoria, where the Coalition and One Nation trade places, and in Western Metro, where the Coalition is fourth and the other three jump up one notch.
From there, it’s an assortment of right-leaning parties – the DLP, the LibDems, Sack Dan Andrews, Health Australia, Shooters Fishers and Farmers, Sustainable Australia and Companions and Pets, in a variety of orders. After that, it’s everyone else: the New Democrats, Transport Matters, Reason, and Justice (in both Animal and Derryn Hinch flavours). Finally, Legalise Cannabis, Independents (if any), and bringing up the rear every time, Vic Socialists, Greens, and last of all, the ALP.
Previous Reviews: 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013

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John O’Brien
Independent

November 15, 2022 / / 3 Comments

Summary

Website: johnobrien4victorians.com.au (link broken)
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Back to Business and in the Black
Themes: Things should be more like they were when John was young.
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian
Lower House: none
Preferences: O’Brien suggests only voting for the bare minimum of 5 below the line – with himself at 1, of course. After that, he’s given the nod to James Unkles of the United Australia Party, Ruth Stanfield of Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, and Melina Bath & Renee Heath of the Coalition.
Previous Reviews: none

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Missing
Inaction…

November 14, 2022 / / 12 Comments

So, it wouldn’t be an election unless there were some candidates we were unable to locate.

Some of them are out there, just not really doing much. This includes the New Democrats (Kaushaliya Vaghela as their most visible member), the Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party (Tosh-Jake Finnigan, ditto) and independents Fred Ackerman, Storm Hellmuth and Mehdi Sayed. For these candidates, we’ve reached out to them on Facebook with the following message:

Hi there. My name is Loki, from Something for Cate, a website that analyses the policies people are taking into elections (I’ve included a link below). As you are a candidate in the Victorian election this year, we were wondering if we could send you a short list of questions about your positions, and post the answers on our site?

We’ve also included Walter Villagonzalo in this group, because although he does have a site, it’s more about what he’s done in the past than his plans for the future.

We’re giving them until next Sunday to get back to us – time is running out, after all.

There are others whom we have not succeeded in locating at all:

  • Colin John Mancell (Northern Metro)
  • Esther Demian (Western Metro)
  • John O’Brien (Eastern Vic) — NOW LOCATED! Thanks Simon!

So we probably won’t be writing much about them.

Transport Matters Party

November 13, 2022 / / 12 Comments

Summary

Website: transportmatters.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Community Driven, Fairness Focused
Themes: Public Transport
Health
Taxis
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Point Cook, Werribee
Preferences: The Group Voting Tickets of Transport Matters are wildly inconsistent from region to region, with the sole exception that the Freedom Party is always dead last, with One Nation, Family First and UAP battling it out for the next three spaces in most regions. The rest of the bottom half is usually filled out by Companions and Pets, the Coalition, ALP and the Greens, from highest to lowest – although in the Northern Metro region, 3rd place ALP candidate Susie Byers gets their fourth preference. The rest of the parties and candidates in each region seem to have mostly been sorted by some combination of brownian motion and complete indifference – although it’s notable that in Western and Eastern regions respectively, independents John O’Brian and Storm Hellmuth only just scrape in above Freedom, and Companions and Pets are third last in Northern Metro.
I’m sure there is a signal somewhere in this noise, but damn is there a lot of noise.
Previous Reviews: 2018 VIC

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Companions and Pets Party

November 10, 2022 / / 9 Comments

Summary

Website: companionsandpetsparty.com.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Protecting your right and freedom to love and own Companion Animals
Themes: Your right to enjoy and own animals
PETA is wrong about everything
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Nepean
Preferences: There’s nothing terribly surprising in CAP’s preference distribution – it’s business-lovers at the top and environment-lovers at the bottom, and I’m sure it’s no surprise that Animal Justice is at the very bottom of the ticket every time, with the Greens just ahead of them.
Starting at the top, CAP preferences the Coalition parties first, followed by the Liberal Democrats and the DLP. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers come next, except in the Eastern and Western Victorian regions, where they are placed second, with the LibDems and DLP after them. After that, it’s United Australia, One Nation, Angry Victorians, Sack Dan Andrews and, curiously, Transport Matters. Then follows Freedom Victoria, independent candidates if there are any in that region, New Democrats, Legalise Cannabis and the ALP. After the ALP, it’s a less predictable assortment – you have Family First, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, the Victorian Socialists, Sustainable Australia, Reason and Health Australia, before we get to the final pair I mentioned above.
Previous Reviews: none – they’re new

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Getting ready

October 16, 2022 / / 6 Comments

Okay, a day of tinkering and moving things around and adding things, and this site is a few steps closer to being ready for the Victorian election. In particular, we’ve populated the lists of parties running in the state upper house with the most up to date information we have on who is running (you can find those in the sidebar, under the heading Victoria — Region by Region), and we’ll be keeping those updated (and even putting them into the correct ballot order once actual ballots are certified).

Coming up next, we’ll have a post about how voting in the Victorian upper house differs from voting in the federal upper house, and then we’ll start getting into the actual reviews of parties and candidates.

Those of you who get email updates on this site may have received a flurry of emails this afternoon, because we have been working on the site, getting it ready for the next election, and we forgot to turn off those notifications – sorry about that folks, please don’t put us in your spam filters!

South-Eastern Metropolitan Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  2. Health Australia Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  3. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  4. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  5. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  6. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  7. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  8. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  9. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  10. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  11. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  12. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  13. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  14. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  15. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  16. Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  17. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  18. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  19. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  20. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  21. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
  22. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  23. Mehdi Sayed — Official Site (Facebook) — no contact

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Health Australia Party — Official Site
  2. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  3. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  4. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  5. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  6. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  7. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  8. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  9. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  10. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  11. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  12. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  13. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  14. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  15. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  16. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  17. Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  18. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  19. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  20. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  21. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  22. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
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