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Family First

November 15, 2022 / / 6 Comments

Summary

Website: familyfirstparty.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Instagram
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Put Victorians Family First This Election
Themes: Religion good. LGBTQIA+ bad.
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Albert Park, Ashwood, Bayswater, Bass, Bellarine, Benambra, Bendigo East, Bendigo West, Bentleigh, Berwick, Box Hill, Brighton, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Bundoora, Carrum, Caulfield, Clarinda, Cranbourne, Croydon, Dandenong, Eildon, Eltham, Essendon, Eureka, Evelyn, Footscray, Frankston, Geelong, Gippsland East, Gippsland South, Glen Waverley, Greenvale, Hastings, Hawthorn, Ivanhoe, Kalkallo, Kew, Kororoit, Lara, Laverton, Lowan, Macedon, Malvern, Melbourne, Melton, Mildura, Monbulk, Mornington, Morwell, Mulgrave, Murray Plains, Narracan, Narre Warren North, Narre Warren South, Nepean, Niddrie, Northcote, Oakleigh, Ovens Valley, Pakenham, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Point Cook, Polwarth, Prahran, Richmond, Ringwood, Ripon, Rowville, Sandringham, Shepparton, South Barwon, South-West Coast, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Tarneit, Thomastown, Warrandyte, Wendouree, Werribee, Williamstown, Yan Yean
Preferences: FF are in lockstep across all Upper House seats. Preferences flow to the Freedom Party, Labour DLP, One Nation, and UAP in that order. No prizes for guessing why.
Previous Reviews: 2014 VIC — 2013 — 2010

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Health Australia Party

November 14, 2022 / / 3 Comments

Summary

Website: healthaustraliaparty.com.au
Social Media: Facebook — Instagram — YouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: For All Australians… A Healthy Choice
Themes: Alternative therapies good, lockdowns and mandates bad.
We’re not a single issue party, we’re sensible and balanced. Honest.
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Melton, Point Cook, Werribee
Preferences: All over the place. Really. HAP’s preferences vary wildly from region to region, and honestly, I can’t see an overarching theme here. In Eastern Victoria, they favour Shooters Fishers and Farmers and Animal Justice (which are about as different a pair as you can get), while in Western Victoria the Angry Victorian Party edges out SFF and Animal Justice is way down on the ticket. The Metropolitan Regions aren’t any better. Labour DLP, Angry Victorians, Justice Party (not to be confused with Animal Justice, Liberal Democrats, and Sustainable Australia all pop up in the top 5. If you’re looking for a sense of where HAP sees its political alignment, you won’t find it on their Group Voting Tickets.
Previous Reviews: 2018 VIC

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Transport Matters Party

November 13, 2022 / / 12 Comments

Summary

Website: transportmatters.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Community Driven, Fairness Focused
Themes: Public Transport
Health
Taxis
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Point Cook, Werribee
Preferences: The Group Voting Tickets of Transport Matters are wildly inconsistent from region to region, with the sole exception that the Freedom Party is always dead last, with One Nation, Family First and UAP battling it out for the next three spaces in most regions. The rest of the bottom half is usually filled out by Companions and Pets, the Coalition, ALP and the Greens, from highest to lowest – although in the Northern Metro region, 3rd place ALP candidate Susie Byers gets their fourth preference. The rest of the parties and candidates in each region seem to have mostly been sorted by some combination of brownian motion and complete indifference – although it’s notable that in Western and Eastern regions respectively, independents John O’Brian and Storm Hellmuth only just scrape in above Freedom, and Companions and Pets are third last in Northern Metro.
I’m sure there is a signal somewhere in this noise, but damn is there a lot of noise.
Previous Reviews: 2018 VIC

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Angry Victorians Party

November 12, 2022 / / 6 Comments

Summary

Website: australianvalues.org.au/angryvictorians
Social Media: Facebook — Instagram — YouTube — LinkedIn
Previous Names: Australian Values Party
Slogans: Politics People
Turning Anger into Action and Action into Change
Themes: We’re angry and it’s all Dan’s fault
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Bellarine, Lara, Lowan
Preferences: Perhaps unsurprisingly, One Nation, Health Australia, and the Freedom Party are often high up on AVP’s Group Voting Ticket. Surprisingly – given that they have nothing to say at all about lockdowns or vaccine mandates – Legalise Cannabis features heavily. Astonishingly, Reason is preferenced in the Northern Metropolitan Region (see below for just why this is strange).
Previous Reviews: 2022 (as the Australian Values Party)

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Companions and Pets Party

November 10, 2022 / / 9 Comments

Summary

Website: companionsandpetsparty.com.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Protecting your right and freedom to love and own Companion Animals
Themes: Your right to enjoy and own animals
PETA is wrong about everything
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: Nepean
Preferences: There’s nothing terribly surprising in CAP’s preference distribution – it’s business-lovers at the top and environment-lovers at the bottom, and I’m sure it’s no surprise that Animal Justice is at the very bottom of the ticket every time, with the Greens just ahead of them.
Starting at the top, CAP preferences the Coalition parties first, followed by the Liberal Democrats and the DLP. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers come next, except in the Eastern and Western Victorian regions, where they are placed second, with the LibDems and DLP after them. After that, it’s United Australia, One Nation, Angry Victorians, Sack Dan Andrews and, curiously, Transport Matters. Then follows Freedom Victoria, independent candidates if there are any in that region, New Democrats, Legalise Cannabis and the ALP. After the ALP, it’s a less predictable assortment – you have Family First, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party, the Victorian Socialists, Sustainable Australia, Reason and Health Australia, before we get to the final pair I mentioned above.
Previous Reviews: none – they’re new

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Getting ready

October 16, 2022 / / 6 Comments

Okay, a day of tinkering and moving things around and adding things, and this site is a few steps closer to being ready for the Victorian election. In particular, we’ve populated the lists of parties running in the state upper house with the most up to date information we have on who is running (you can find those in the sidebar, under the heading Victoria — Region by Region), and we’ll be keeping those updated (and even putting them into the correct ballot order once actual ballots are certified).

Coming up next, we’ll have a post about how voting in the Victorian upper house differs from voting in the federal upper house, and then we’ll start getting into the actual reviews of parties and candidates.

Those of you who get email updates on this site may have received a flurry of emails this afternoon, because we have been working on the site, getting it ready for the next election, and we forgot to turn off those notifications – sorry about that folks, please don’t put us in your spam filters!

South-Eastern Metropolitan Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  2. Health Australia Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  3. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  4. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  5. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  6. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  7. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  8. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  9. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  10. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  11. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  12. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  13. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  14. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  15. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  16. Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  17. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  18. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  19. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  20. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  21. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
  22. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  23. Mehdi Sayed — Official Site (Facebook) — no contact

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Health Australia Party — Official Site
  2. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  3. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  4. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  5. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  6. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  7. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  8. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  9. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  10. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  11. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  12. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  13. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  14. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  15. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  16. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  17. Liberal Party of Australia — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  18. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  19. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  20. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  21. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  22. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013

Eastern Victoria Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  2. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  3. Coalition
  4. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  5. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  6. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  7. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  8. Health Australia Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  9. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  10. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  11. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  12. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  13. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  14. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  15. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  16. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
  17. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  18. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  19. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  20. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  21. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  22. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  23. John O’Brien — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC

Northern Victoria Region

October 16, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Please note that all links to previous commentaries are to Cate Speaks, only links for 2022 – Vic or Fed – are on this site.

GROUPS

  1. Health Australia Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  2. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 (VIC)
  3. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  4. Companions and Pets Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  5. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC     — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  6. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  7. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 2022 — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
  8. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  9. Coalition
  10. Liberal Democratic Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  11. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022
  12. Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2016
  13. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  14. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  15. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  16. New Democrats — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  17. Transport Matters — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2018 (VIC)
  18. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  19. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  20. Democratic Labour Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  21. Freedom Party — Official Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  22. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2019 — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
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