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Summary
| Website: | australiasvoice.com.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Instagram — Twitter |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Don’t Waste Your Vote This Election… |
| Themes: | What if the ALP was actually a party of the Left? |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria & West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | none |
| Preferences: | Not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
Summary
| Website: | www.crikey.com.au/topic/crikey-for-pm |
| Social Media: | none |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | none |
| Themes: | none |
| Upper House Electorates: | Victoria |
| Lower House Electorates: | none |
| Preferences: | To quote from the site: We really, really don’t want to win, and we won’t be making preferences |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
Summary
| Website: | legalisecannabis.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Instagram — X/Twitter 1 — X/Twitter 2 — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party |
| Slogans: | In this case, the party name pretty much is the slogan |
| Themes: | Civil rights and health, with a particular focus on smokin’ a bunch of weed |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | Bendigo, Blair, Bonner, Bruce, Bullwinkel, Calwell, Cooper, Corangamite, Cowper, Dickson, Dobell, Dunkley, Forrest, Gilmore, Gorton, Hasluck, Hawke, Holt, Hunter, Leichardt, Lyne, McEwen, Paterson, Pearce, Richmond, Robertson, Tangney, Werriwa & Wills |
| Preferences: | None. |
| Previous Reviews: | 2022 — 2019 — 2013 |
Summary
| Website: | trumpetofpatriots.org |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | Australian Federation Party, Country Alliance, Australian Country Party and Australian Country Party: Give it Back! |
| Slogans: | Commonsense Policies for All Australians |
| Themes: | Labor, the Liberals, and the Greens have ruined everything, so give us a go! |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | Adelaide, Aston, Banks, Barker, Barton, Bass, Bennelong, Berowra, Blair, Bonner, Boothby, Bowman, Braddon, Bradfield, Brisbane, Bruce, Calare, Calwell, Capricornia, Casey, Chifley, Chisholm, Cook, Corangamite, Cowan, Cowper, Dawson, Deakin, Dickson, Dobell, Durack, Eden-Monaro, Fadden, Fairfax, Farrer, Fisher, Flinders, Flynn, Forde, Forrest, Gilmore, Goldstein, Greenway, Grey, Griffith, Groom, Herbert, Hindmarsh, Hinkler, Hughes, Hume, Hunter, Kennedy, Kingston, Kooyong, La Trobe, Leichardt, Lilley, Lindsay, Longman, Lyne, Lyons, Mackellar, Makin, Mallee, Maranoa, Mayo, McPherson, Menzies, Mitchell, Monash, Moncrieff, Moore, Moreton, Newcastle, New England, Nicholls, O’Connor, Oxley, Page, Parkes, Parramatta, Paterson, Petrie, Rankin, Reid, Richmond, Robertson, Ryan, Scullin, Spence, Sturt, Wannon, Warringah, Watson, Werriwa, Whitlam, Wide Bay & Wright |
| Preferences: | Not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2022 — 2019 (as the Australian Country Party) — 2018 (VIC, as the Australian Country Party: Give it Back!) — 2014 (VIC, as the Australian Country Alliance) — 2013 (as the Australian Country Alliance) |
Summary
| Website: | Vote 1 Viesha Lewand, JP for Australian Senate 2025 |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — LinkedIn — Substack |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Let’s Do This Together–The Time Is NOW! |
| Themes: | good question |
| Electorates: | Upper House: Victoria Lower House: none |
| Preferences: | None provided, however Lewand has stated that Senators I respect and will support are Gerard Rennick and Malcolm Roberts who have proven themselves by always supporting Australians first. Take that for what it’s worth. |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
As with every election, there’s some folks – almost always independents – who go to all the trouble of registering, and then don’t seem to do anything else. In these days of our terminally online culture, they somehow manage to slip through the cracks and remain unfindable online, at least to our sophisticated search techniques, which consist of using the following search terms:
- “candidate name” + senate
- “candidate name” + election
- “candidate name” + australia
- “candidate name” + victoria
(Yes, we could include the year, but the recency bias of most search engines makes that unnecessary.)
Gentle reader, if you should stumble across any of the folk listed below in the course of your internet wanderings – or if you are one of the folk listed below – please let us know! We want to give everyone the best coverage we can.
The Group T independents are all somewhat MIA: Found them!
Raj Saini – unfortunately, there is a more infamous Canadian politician with the same name, which makes searching for them difficult. But even adding “Australia” or “Victoria” to the search terms doesn’t seem to help.Kirti Alle – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.Yashaswini Srinivas Kanakagiri – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.
In the Ungrouped section, four of the eight candidates are unfindable:
- Susantha Abeysinghe –
It’s possible that this is the same person, but there’s no mention of the Federal election on their page. We have reached out to them to check, still waiting on a response as of 21/4.Found them! - Lawrence Harvey –
search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts. Plus, there seem to be multiple people with this name, making identification even more difficult.Found them! - K Black –
search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts. Plus, this is further complicated by the multiple people with whose name is “firstname K. Black”, making identification even more difficult.Found them! Nate Ritter – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.Found them!
Wow, we’ve actually found almost everyone this year! We can only hope that this is not a portent of the Apocalypse.
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. In addition, Queensland is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
- Socialist Alliance — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2010 - Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 - Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC) - 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
- Australia’s Voice — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Jacqui Lambie Network — Official Site
Commentaries: 2019 — 2016 - Gerard Rennick People First / Katter Australian Party
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Katter Australian Party — Official Site
Commentaries: none
- Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
- Australian Democrats — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 - Coalition
- Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Great Australian Party / Heart Party
- The Great Australian Party — Official Site (archived on Web Archive)
Commentary: 2022 — 2019 - Heart Party (formerly Informed Medical Options Party and Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019
- The Great Australian Party — Official Site (archived on Web Archive)
- Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013 - Family First Party — Official Website
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 - The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - 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 - Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Ungrouped Candidates:
- Gilbert Holmes — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Danny Donohue — Official Site (Facebook page) — Commentary: new candidate
- Duke Wong — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Jason Brown — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
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. In addition, New South Wales is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
- Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Max Boddy & Warwick Dove (formerly the Socialist Equality Party, now deregistered) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - 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
- 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 - Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013 - Australian Christians — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (as the Christian Democratic Party, prior to their split.) - Libertarian Party / Heart Party / Gerard Rennick People First
- Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - 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
Commentaries: 2025
- Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
- Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 - 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 - Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC) - Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 - Coalition
- Jacqui Lambie Network — Official Site
Commentaries: 2019 — 2016 - Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Socialist Alliance — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2010 - The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Ungrouped Candidates:
- Kerrie Christina Harris — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Shawn Price — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Warren Grzic — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
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. In addition, South Australia is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
- Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - 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
- Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013 - Jacqui Lambie Network — Official Site
Commentaries: 2019 — 2016 - Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 - National Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - Australia’s Voice — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 - Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 - Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010 - Family First Party — Official Website
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 - 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 - Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
Ungrouped Candidates:
- Kosta Hadjimarkou — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
- Janette Gail Francis — Official Site — Commentary: new candidate
