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Category: Federal-2025 (Page 1 of 4)

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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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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Indigenous – Aboriginal Party of Australia

Summary

Website: www.indigenouspartyofaustralia.com
Social Media: FacebookTwitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: For a voice IN parliament
Themes: Justice and equity for Indigenous Australians
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Queensland & Victoria
Lower House Electorates: Durack, Lingiari & Parkes
Preferences: The IAPA has only provided a preference card for the QLD Senate, but it’s unlikely their preferences would differ that much. So, we have Socialist Alliance at 2, followed by Legalise Cannabis and Australia’s Voice at 3 and 4. Fusion come in at 5 and the Greens at 6. Mostly left-leaning parties, which isn’t terribly surprising. And it gives some idea of how they might vote outside of their declared policies areas.
Previous Reviews: 2022 (VIC)

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