Category: Tasmania (Page 1 of 3)

Tasmanian Senate Candidates 2025

April 12, 2025 / Loki / 0 Comments

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, Tasmania is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed. Fortunately, Dr Kevin Bonham is reviewing all Tasmanian candidates and parties, so you can find more information by clicking through.

GROUPS

Sustainable Australia Party – Universal Basic Income (formerly the Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption and the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
Animal Justice Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
The Greens — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Jacqui Lambie Network — Official Site
Commentaries: 2019 — 2016
Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– 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
Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
Australian Labor Party — Official Site
Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010

Ungrouped Candidates:

Fenella Edwards — Official Site — Commentary: none

Animal Justice Party

April 29, 2025 / Loki / 3 Comments

Summary

Website:	www.animaljusticeparty.org
Social Media:	Bluesky — Facebook — Instagram — Twitter — YouTube
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) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013

Australian Citizens Party

April 28, 2025 / Loki / 0 Comments

Summary

Website:	citizensparty.org.au
Social Media:	Facebook — Instagram — LinkedIn — SoundCloud — Telegram — TikTok — Twitter — Vimeo — YouTube
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!¹
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 NOT² 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.³
Previous Reviews:	2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010

Sustainable Australia Party

April 26, 2025 / Loki / 9 Comments

Summary

Website:	www.sustainableaustralia.org.au
Social Media:	BlueSky — Facebook — Instagram — LinkedIn — Reddit — Threads — TikTok — Twitter — YouTube
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 them¹.
Previous Reviews:	2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013

Libertarian Party

April 17, 2025 / Loki / 0 Comments

Summary

Website:	libertarians.org.au
Social Media:	Facebook — Instagram — Twitter — YouTube
Previous Names:	The Liberal Democratic Party
Slogans:	Policies for Prosperity, Family and Freedom A Libertarian Vision
Themes:	FREEDOM!!! but more for companies than for people, and selectively applied
Upper House Electorates:	New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania & Victoria
Lower House Electorates:	Aston, Ballarat, Banks, Barton, Bendigo, Blaxland, Bonner, Bruce, Corangamite, Cowper, Deakin, Dobell, Fowler, Gippsland, Goldstein, Hasluck, Hughes, Hume, Indi, Kooyong, Lalor, Lyne, Macarthur, Mackellar, Macnamara, Macquarie, Mallee, McPherson, Menzies, Page, Parkes, Parramatta, Richmond, Riverina, Warringah, Watson, Werriwa, Whitlam & Wills
Preferences:	The Libertarian Party is a member of the Australia First Alliance, but evidence has emerged that they are screwing their supposed allies – or at least, the Great Australian Party thinks so.
Previous Reviews:	2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010

Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party

April 16, 2025 / Loki / 0 Comments

Summary

Website:	shootersfishersandfarmers.org.au
Social Media:	Facebook — Instagram — Twitter — YouTube
Previous Names:	none
Slogans:	It’s Your Powerful Voice
Themes:	Anything worth doing is worth half-assing
Upper House Electorates:	Tasmania & Victoria
Lower House Electorates:	Calare, Farrer, Hunter, Lindsay, Lyons, Page, Parkes & Riverina
Preferences:	not yet available
Previous Reviews:	2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010

Legalise Cannabis Party

April 14, 2025 / Loki / 4 Comments

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

Trumpet of Patriots

April 14, 2025 / Maz Weaver / 5 Comments

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)

Australian Labor Party

May 16, 2022 / Maz Weaver / 4 Comments

Summary

Website:	www.alp.org
Social Media:	Facebook — Twitter — Instagram — YouTube
Previous Names:	none
Slogans:	A Better Future Medicare, Childcare, Aged Care, Labor Cares
Themes:	We do hold a hose
Electorates:	Upper House: All Lower House: All
Preferences:	A mixed bag. Greens get the coveted number 2 spot in most states. Tasmania directs preferences to Jacquie Lambie Network, and ACT to David Pocock. The next preference changes depending on the state: Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party in Victoria; Shooters Fishers and Farmers in NSW; Animal Justice in Queensland, SA, and WA; Greens in Tasmania and ACT; and Liberal Democrats in NT.
Previous Reviews:	2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013

Animal Justice Party

May 16, 2022 / Loki / 4 Comments

Summary

Website:	www.animaljusticeparty.org
Social Media:	Facebook — Twitter — Instagram — YouTube
Previous Names:	none
Slogans:	A better world for Animals, People & Planet
Themes:	A better world for Animals, People & Planet, with emphasis on the first of those three
Electorates:	Upper House: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and West Australia Lower House: Bass, Blair, Boothby, Brisbane, Braddon, Casey, Chisholm, Clark, Cooper, Corangamite, Corio, Cowan, Deakin, Dunkley, Fairfax, Fisher, Flinders, Franklin, Grayndler, Herbert, Higgins, Hindmarsh, Indi, Isaacs, Kooyong, La Trobe, Leichhardt, Longman, Lyons, Macnamara, Macquarie, Mayo, Melbourne, Moncrieff, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Petrie, Robertson, Ryan, Shortland, Sturt, Swan, Warringah & Wills
Preferences:	Somewhat surprisingly, the AJP’s highest preference goes to the Labor Party. Following them are, in order, are Reason, the Greens, Socialist Alliance and Legalise Cannabis. Unsurprisingly left leaning, although most of the parties in this group put the ALP at #6, not #2.
Previous Reviews:	2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013

Category: Tasmania (Page 1 of 3)

Tasmanian Senate Candidates 2025

Animal Justice Party

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Australian Citizens Party

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Sustainable Australia Party

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Libertarian Party

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Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party

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Legalise Cannabis Party

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Trumpet of Patriots

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Australian Labor Party

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Animal Justice Party

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