Continuing in the spirit of Cate Speaks
| Website: | www.progressives.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Real People, Real Vision |
| Themes: | Politics is more than right and left. Empowerment and opportunity for all. Forward to the future! |
| Electorates: |
Upper House: Australian Capital Territory & Victoria Lower House: Ryan & Sturt |
| Preferences: | not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 — 2016 — both of these are on Cate Speaks |
| Website: | Tara TRAN – Support Community- Healthy Mind Wealthy Life /Hỗ Trợ Cộng Đồng (Facebook page) |
| Social Media: | Facebook — YouTube — LinkedIn |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Healthy Mind, Wealthy Life |
| Themes: | Integrity, Compassion, Environment, Innovation, Life |
| Electorates: |
Upper House: Victoria Lower House: not applicable |
| Preferences: |
Now available on Facebook – thanks to eagle-eyed reader Drago for bringing them to my attention. Tara gives the bare minimum of below the line preferences, numbering only 12 boxes, all of them bar one other independents, which is at least consistent with her views of what an independent can achieve. After herself at #1, #2 spot goes to Paul Ross (commentary coming soon, but let’s just say this surprises me). #3, #7 and #11 all go to independents on my missing-in-action list (i.e. candidates I’ve been unable to find online): Allen Ridgeway, Bernardine Atkinson and Nat De Francseco respectively. #4 is Bond, James Bond (commentary coming soon, likewise surprising for reasons that will become apparent), while #5 is Neal Smith and #6 is Max Dicks, both of whom have some common policy ground with her. #8 is Group B independent Damien Richardson (formerly on Neighbours, now headliinng anti-vax rallies) and #9 is Yolanda Vega of the Reason Party – and it’s interesting that in both these cases, only the first person in each Group has been preferenced, despite there being two candidates in each. #10 is Glenn Floyd (another anti-vax type) and #12 is Geraldine Gonsalvez. A really mixed bag, and not one I can easily find patterns in, other than they are almost all independents (although it’s also interesting that among the ungrouped independents, Joe Toscane and David John Dillon’s boxes are left empty), and that clearly, Tara Tran is not interested in currying favour with the big parties. |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
| Website: | citizensparty.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — YouTube — Vimeo — SoundCloud — LinkedIn |
| Previous Names: | Citizens Electoral Council of Australia |
| Slogans: | Citizens taking reponsibility |
| Themes: | Banks are bad unless they’re the ones we want. |
| Electorates: |
Upper House: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria Lower House: Chisholm, Cunningham, Hawke, Lingiari, Mallee, Nicholls, Robertson & Sydney |
| Preferences: | Preferences now available here. Short and sweet: second place to Shooters, Farmers and Fishers, third to One Nation, fourth to the Greens, fifth to Reason and sixth to the Australian Values Party. So basically, a vote following this is going to help elect a Green. I would not have predicted that. |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 — 2013 — 2010 (as the Citizens Electoral Council.) — all these are on Cate Speaks |
| Website: | www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/sep/australia |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — Instagram — TikTok |
| Previous Names: | Socialist Equality Party |
| Slogans: | A socialist program of action for the working class! |
| Themes: | The coming global socialist revolution will solve every problem, comrade! |
| Electorates: |
Upper House: Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland Lower House: none |
| Preferences: | not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 — 2013 — 2010 (as the Socialist Equality Party, prior to their deregistration. See below for more details.) — all these are on Cate Speaks |
| Website: | vote1maxdicks.com.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | It’s in your hands |
| Themes: | Integrity, Compassion, Environment, Innovation, Life |
| Electorates: |
Upper House: Victoria Lower House: not applicable |
| Preferences: | not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 |
| 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: Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & Western Australia
Lower House: Barton, Bass, Bendigo, Berowra, Blair, Bonner, Bowman, Braddon, Burt, Calare, Capricornia, Casey, Chifley, Cook, Cooper, Cowan, Cowper, Corio, Cunningham, Dawson, Dickson, Dobell, Durack, Fadden, Fairfax, Fisher, Flinders, Forde, Forrest, Fowler, Franklin, Fraser, Gippsland, Goldstein, Groom, Hinkler, Hume, Hunter, Indi, Isaacs, Leichhardt, Lilley, Lingari, Longman, Lyne, Lyons, Macarthur, Maranoa, McEwen, McPherson, Melbourne, Monash, Moncrieff, Newcastle, Nicholls, Paterson, Pearce, Rankin, Robertson, Scullin, Shortland, Spencer, Warringah, Wide Bay & Wright The website proudly proclaims that One Nation will be standing in all 151 Lower House seats across Australia, so presumably there are still some candidates to be announced. |
| Preferences: | One Nation’s How-to-Vote card is frustratingly opaque. Rather than name parties, it advises voters to vote for the alphabetical letter designated on the ballot. In Victoria, that means the Australian Values Party is number 2, followed by the Liberal Democrats and United Australia Party. Shooters, FIshers and Farmers, and Australian Federation Party round out the top 6. The other states have the Liberal Democrats at number 2, and IMOP gets a look-in in Queensland at number 5. The exception is Tasmania, who places Independents Day and Amadino ahead of the Liberal Democrats. In Western Australia, Australian Values Party is number 2. |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 — 2013 — 2010 — all these are on Cate Speaks |
| Website: | www.liberal.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — Instagram |
| Slogans: | Stronger Economy. Stronger Future. |
| Themes: | You can’t trust Labor Look at everything we’ve done for you (but not too closely) You can’t trust Labor |
| Electorates: | Upper House: All states Lower House: Almost all electorates |
| Preferences: | The Coalition’s preferences are an interesting balancing act. There’s the obvious pandering to Clive, with the UAP coming in at 2, followed by a desperate scramble to find fellow right wingers who aren’t batshit crazy. This leads to Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party getting the number 3 slot, followed by the Liberal Democrats at 4, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party at 5 and the Australian Democrats at 6. UAP aside, these are among the more moderate parties to be found in the centre and right of our spectrum. It’s also notable that every last one of them is a past or current Parliamentary party, at least at a state level (in the case of the SFF). |
| Previous Reviews: | 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 — all these are on Cate Speaks |
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