Continuing in the spirit of Cate Speaks

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And that’s almost Everything for Cate for another election…

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 🙂

Victorian Socialists

Summary

Website: www.victoriansocialists.org.au
Social Media: FacebookInstagramTwitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: For the People, Not the Powerful
Themes: fighting for working class interests, while at the same time being uncompromising champions of every other downtrodden and oppressed community
Upper House Electorates: Victoria
Lower House Electorates: Bendigo, Cooper, Fraser & Scullin
Preferences: VS have recommended above the line voting, with the Greens in second position, followed by Australia’s Voice, Animal Justice, FUSION, and the ALP sixth
Previous Reviews: 2022 (VIC) — 202220192018 (VIC)

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Australian Democrats

Summary

Website: www.democrats.org.au
Social Media: FacebookInstagramTwitterYouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: The People’s Watchdog in the Senate
Themes: evidence-based governance; integrity, truth and transparency; working together; looking out for each other and the planet
Upper House Electorates: Queensland, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Banks
Preferences: The Democrats would like you to vote 1 for them, and then assign the rest of your preferences as you see fit.
Previous Reviews: 20222019

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Animal Justice Party

Summary

Website: www.animaljusticeparty.org
Social Media: BlueskyFacebookInstagramTwitterYouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Proving that care and compassion aren’t out of fashion – The Animal Justice Party stands for Animals, People and the Planet this Federal Election
Themes: A kinder world, especially for the animals
Upper House Electorates: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Adelaide, Blair, Canberra, Casey, Chifley, Cunningham, Dickson, Dobell, Hawke, Hindmarsh, Hunter, Kingston, Lindsay, Makin, McEwan, McPherson, Spence & Wright
Preferences: AJP’s Victoria preferences go to Fusion, Legalise Cannabis, Vic Socialists, the Greens and the ALP, in that order. In SA, the order is similar: Fusion, Greens, Legalise Cannabis, Sustainable Australia and the ALP. Despite running in five other Senate races, no preferences are specified in any of those. Honestly, these are all fairly predictable nominally Left-leaning parties, with the ALP last as a circuit breaker. The high-ranking of Fusion is the only confusing thing here, all the rest seem pretty logical from an AJP perspective.
Previous Reviews: 2022 (VIC) — 20222019201820142013

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Keo Vongvixay & Taylor Hernan (Socialist Equality Party)

Summary

Website: www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/sep/australia
Social Media: FacebookInstagramTwitterYouTube
Previous Names: Socialist Equality Party
Slogans: Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
Themes: Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales & Victoria
Lower House Electorates: Calwell, Newcastle & Oxley
Preferences: They basically ask you to put them first and whoever you want after that.
Previous Reviews: 2022201920132010

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Australian Citizens Party

Summary

Website: citizensparty.org.au
Social Media: FacebookInstagramLinkedInSoundCloudTelegramTikTokTwitterVimeoYouTube
Previous Names: The Citizens’ Electoral Council
Slogans: Citizens Taking Responsibility
Return Government to the People
Take Back Economic and National Sovereignty!
Themes: Public Banks are good, Lyndon LaRouche is right about everything!1Even if he has been dead for six years!
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Bass, Calwell, Canning, Cunningham, Fadden, Forde, Fremantle, Hotham, Hughes, Lingiari, Lyne, Lyons, Mallee, Moreton, Nicholls, Page, Riverina, Solomon & Whitlam
Preferences: The Citizen’s Party have given us preference cards for every Senate contest they’re in. But only in three states does this amount to anything – everything else is literally “put us first, whoever you like in the next five”. But in Victoria, they’re preferencing, in order: People First/Heart, Australia’s Voice, the Indigenous-Aboriginal Party, the Greens and One Nation. Queensland has the same five parties (although People First is joined by Katter, not Heart), but in a different order. Tasmania, on the other hand, brings in the Shooters Fishers and Farmers at 2, Legalise Cannabis at 3 and Sustainable Australia at 4, with One Nation at 5 and the Greens bringing up the rear. They also note that is NOT2CAPS in original an endorsement of any other parties or candidates—we have significant disagreements with all other parties, but we always look for common ground on which to collaborate. On most of these forms, they note that a Public Bank is the main policy they think you should look for in other parties, and that – by implication at least – this was the major thing they looked for when making their decisions.3Not sure how they wound up with some of their Tasmanian choices on that basis, though
Previous Reviews: 2022201920132010

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Sustainable Australia Party

Summary

Website: www.sustainableaustralia.org.au
Social Media: BlueSkyFacebookInstagramLinkedInRedditThreadsTikTokTwitterYouTube
Previous Names: Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption & the Stable Population Party
Slogans: DE-CORRUPT POLITICS for a fair and sustainable Australia
Themes: Reduce population growth and re-aligning Australian society more sustainably
Upper House Electorates: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: none
Preferences: The party’s official position is that they don’t really care who you number 2 or lower, so long as you number them 1. Which is either a fairly realistic assessment of how the preference system now works, or an implicit acknowledgement that no one wanted to do a preference swap with them1Or both, I suppose.
Previous Reviews: 2022 (VIC) — 2022201920182013

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Gerard Rennick People First Party

Summary

 

Website: peoplefirstparty.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterYouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Putting the People First. Always.
Themes: ideology bad – except our ideology, ours is good
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Blair, Brisbane, Dawson, Fadden, Fairfax, Farrer, Fisher, Flinders, Flynn, Griffith, Herbert, Maranoa, McEwen, McPhersonMoncrieff, Moreton, Rankin, Richmond, Ryan, Scullin & Wright
Preferences: GRPF is a part of the Australia First Alliance (watch this space, though). Its HTV card for Victoria directs above-the-line voting, with itself and the HEART Party first. Libertarians are at 2, followed by Family First, Citizens Party, Trumpet of Patriots and One Nation.
Previous Reviews: none

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