Continuing in the spirit of Cate Speaks

Category: Western Metropolitan Region (Page 1 of 3)

Western Metropolitan Region

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. Family First Party Official Website
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC20192014 (VIC) — 20132010
  2. Reason Australia (formerly the Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010 (VIC)
  3. Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption (formerly the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC2022201920182013
  4. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party)Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010
  5. Group E: Fred Ackerman & Mark Barrowno contact
  6. Liberal Party of AustraliaOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010
  7. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC202220192013
  8. Companions and Pets PartyOfficial Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  9. The GreensOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010
  10. Pauline Hanson’s One NationOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 2022201920132010
  11. Angry Victorians Party — (formerly the Australian Values Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC2022
  12. United Australia Party (formerly Palmer United) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 202220192014 (VIC) — 2013
  13. New DemocratsOfficial Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  14. Animal Justice PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC20222019201820142013
  15. Liberal Democratic PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010
  16. Health Australia PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC2018 (VIC)
  17. Democratic Labour PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 20192018 (VIC) — 2014 VIC — 2013
  18. Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews PartyOfficial Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  19. Derryn Hinch’s Justice PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC — 202220192018 (VIC) — 2016
  20. Victorian SocialistsOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC
    202220192018 (VIC)
  21. Group U: Walter Villagonzalo & Sam Alcordono contact
  22. Transport MattersOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC2018 (VIC)
  23. Freedom PartyOfficial Site
    Commentary: 2022 VIC
  24. Australian Labor PartyOfficial Site
    Commentaries: 2022 VIC202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010
  25. Esther Demian — no contact

The Liberal Party

Summary

Website: vic.liberal.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterInstagram
Slogans: Real Solutions for All Victorians
Themes: Some really great ideas undermined by short-sighted and vindictive thinking
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria, North-East Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victoria, South-East Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victoria Region
Lower House: Albert Park, Ashwood, Bass, Bellarine, Bendigo East, Bendigo West, Bentleigh, Box Hill, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Bundoora, Carrum, Clarinda, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Eltham, Essendon, Eureka, Euroa, Footscray, Frankston, Geelong, Greenvale, Hastings, Hawthorn, Ivanhoe, Kalkallo, Kororoit, Lara, Laverton, Macedon, Melbourne, Melton, Mildura, Monbulk, Mordialloc, Mornington, Morwell, Mulgrave, Narracan, Narre Warren North, Nepean, Niddrie, Northcote, Oakleigh, Pakenham, Pascoe Vale, Point Cook, Prahran, Preston, Richmond, Ringwood, Shepparton, South Barwon, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Tarneit, Thomastown, Wendouree, Werribee, Williamstown, Yan Yean
Preferences: The Coalition are keeping it in-house in the rural Regions with LP preferencing the Nationals candidates, followed up by other Liberals. In the Metropolitan Regions, it’s a grab bag of parties even further to the Right than the LP itself. United Australia, DLP, and Family First get second preferences, followed by a mix of One Nation, Liberal Democrats, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, and the New Democrats. That’s rounded out by Angry Victorians and the Freedom Party.
Previous Reviews: 202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010

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The Greens

Summary

Website: greens.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterYouTubeInstagram
Slogans: The Time Is Now
Themes: Socially progressive, economically left wing, pro-environment. Urgent need for climate action.
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victoria, Southern Metropolitan, South Eastern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victoria
Lower House: Albert Park, Ashwood, Bass, Bayswater, Bellarine, Benambra, Bendigo East, Bendigo West, Bentleigh, Berwick, Box Hill, Brighton, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Bulleen, Bundoora, Carrum, Caulfield, Clarinda, Cranbourne, Croydon, Dandenong, Eildon, Eltham, Essendon, Eureka, Euroa, 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, Mill Park, Monbulk, Mordialloc, Mornington, Morwell, Mulgrave, Murray Plains, Narre Warren North, Narre Warren South, Nepean, Niddrie, Northcote, Oakliegh, Ovens Valley, Pakenham, Pascoe Vale, Point Cook, Polwarth, Prahran, Preston, Richmond, Ringwood, Ripon, Rowville, Sandringham, Shepparton, South Barwon, South West Coast, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Tarneit, Thomastown, Warrandyte, Wendouree, Werribee, Williamstown, Yan Yean
Preferences: In various orders, the first four preferences of the Greens are Reason, Legalise Cannabis, Animal Justice and Victorian Socialists. They are followed, always, by Transport Matters and the ALP.
Previous Reviews: 202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010>

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Legalise Cannabis Party

Summary

Website: legalisecannabis.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitter
Previous Names: Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
Slogans: Look for the Leaf
Themes: Hemp can save everything from health to the economy to the environment to agriculture
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria Region, North-East Metropolitan Region, Northern Metropolitan Region, Northern Victoria Region, South-East Metropolitan Region, Southern Metropolitan Region, Western Metropolitan Region, Western Victoria Region
Lower House: Bayswater, Bendigo West, Pakenham
Preferences: Either Animal Justice or the Reason Party receive LC’s second preference in every Region, with Victorian Socialists coming in at third. The exception is the Western Metropolitan Region, where the second spot is occupied by the Victorian Socialists. Fourth preferences go to the Greens except in Eastern and Northern Victoria, where LC has nominated Labor.
Previous Reviews: 202220192013

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Australian Labor Party

Summary

Website: viclabor.com.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterInstagramYouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Delivering for all Victorians
Themes:
Electorates: Upper House: All
Lower House: All
Preferences: The ALP has preferenced Reason, Animal Justice or Legalise Cannabis first, and then there’s a bit of a shuffle going on, with those three parties, the Greens, Transport Matters, Victorian Socialists, Shooters Fishers and Farmers, and Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party all in the mix, and no consistency between regions, so check your HTV card carefully before voting above the line. You’ll know you’ve reached the end of these musical chairs when you hit the Liberal Democrats. The parties after that are listed in the same order every time, with Sack Dan Andrews, the UAP and One Nation bringing up the rear.
Previous Reviews: 20222019201820142013

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Victorian Socialists

Summary

Website: www.victoriansocialists.org.au
Social Media: Facebook
Previous Names: none
Slogans: For real change Vote Socialist
Themes: …for real change vote Socialist
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria Region, North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, Northern Metropolitan Region, South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, Southern Metropolitan Region, Western Metropolitan Region, Western Victoria Region
Lower House: Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Essendon, Footscray, Greenvale, Kalkallo, Kororoit, Laverton, Melbourne, Niddrie, Northcote, Pascoe Vale, Point Cook, Preston, Richmond, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Tarneit, Thomastown, Werribee, Williamstown
Preferences: Like pretty much everyone else, the Vic Socialists are mixing it up from region to region. But their top four preferences always go to some combination of Animal Justice, Legalise Cannibis, Reason and the Greens, inevitably followed by the ALP and Transport Matters in that order. The rest of their ticket is fairly unsurprising, although the DLP ranks higher than you might expect, and CAP is always near the bottom, although ahead of UAP, One Nation and Freedom.
Previous Reviews: 202220192018 (VIC)

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The Reason Party

Summary

Website: reason.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterInstagramYouTube
Previous Names: Australian Sex Party & Fiona Patten’s Reason Party
Slogans: A Voice of Reason
Themes: Collaboration, support, and an end to discrimination
Community based policies with a local Victorian focus
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria, North-Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victoria, South-Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victoria
Lower House: Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Essendon, Melbourne, Northcote, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Richmond
Preferences: In most regions, Reason have tapped Legalise Cannabis for their second preference, followed by Animal Justice and Victorian Socialists. The Greens follow these in Northern-Eastern, Northern, South-Eastern, and Western Metro, and the ALP in Eastern and Northern Victoria. Northern Metro, where Reason are standing five candidates, preferences Victorian Socialists first, and Southern Metro preferences the Greens. For no adequately explained reason, given circumstances surrounding debate over the pandemic bill and recent events, Angry Victorians receive Reason’s fifth preference in Western Victoria.
Previous Reviews: 202220192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010 (VIC)

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Labour DLP

Summary

Website: dlp.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterYouTubeLinkedIn
Previous Names: Democratic Labour Party, Democratic Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)
Slogans: Labour, the Way it Should Be
Themes: Freedom for those we think should be allowed to have it.
No pink commie wokeness here, we’re the real Labour Party
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victoria Region, North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, Northern Metropolitan Region, South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, Southern Metropolitan Region, Western Metropolitan Region, Western Victoria Region
Lower House: Bass, Bayswater, Box Hill, Cranbourne, Croydon, Eltham, Eureka, Footscray, Glen Waverley, Hastings, Hawthorn, Kororoit, Laverton, Melton, Mildura, Mulgrave, Narre Warren North, Nepean, Niddrie, Pakenham, Point Cook, Ringwood, Sandringham, Shepparton, South Barwon, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Wendouree, Werribee, Williamstown, Yan Yean
Preferences: DLP preferences clearly show their involvement in the deal organised by Glenn Druery. Without exception, their third, fourth, and fifth preferences flow to Family First, Freedom Party, and Angry Victorians, in that order. Their second preferences are also mostly drawn from parties involved in the deal. The exception is in the Western Metropolitan Region, where DLP have nominated the Independent group of Sam Alcordo and Walter Villagonzalo.
Previous Reviews: 20192018 VIC2014 VIC2013

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Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party

Summary

Website: viclabor.org
Social Media: Twitter
Slogans: Blow the Whistle on Corruption
Themes: We may not be real, but we don’t like Dan
Electorates: Upper House: Eastern Victorian, North Eastern Metropolitan, Northern Metropolitan, Northern Victorian, South Eastern Metropolitan, Southern Metropolitan, Western Metropolitan, Western Victorian
Lower House: none
Preferences: RDSD’s preferences, for the most part, reflect their membership in the preference deals organised by Glenn Druery. In every seat, they’ve listed some combination of Health Australia, Shooters Fishers and Farmers, Hinch’s Justice, Labour DLP, Liberal Democrats, Sustainable Australia, Transport Matters, New Democrats, and the Angry Victorians. The Freedom Party also attracts third or fourth preferences in several regions. What’s curious, though – given RDSD’s purported motivation – is that they’ve given a Labor candidate their fourth preference in Finnigan’s own seat of Western Victoria.
Previous Reviews: none

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Failure to Communicate

Our aim here at Something for Cate is to provide voters with information about the preferences, candidates, and policies of those parties and individuals who make the decision to run in elections. We do this by examining websites, social media accounts, news, and video – and sometimes we have to dig for it. When we can’t find that information, especially on Independents who may not have funds or time to create and maintain a web presence, we reach out to them and invite them to comment on a series of questions that concern the major issues being canvassed in the campaign as a whole, and any areas of specific interest to their individual candidacies.

For this election, we contacted the following Independent candidates via Facebook:

  • Fred Ackerman (Western Metro, Group E)
  • Mehdi Sayed (South Eastern Metro)
  • Walter Villagonzalo (Western Metro, Group U)

Unfortunately, only Ackerman responded to our initial inquiry. We sent him our list of questions, but received no further response.

The other candidates did not respond to our first attempt at contact. A fourth Independent, Esther Demian (Western Metro), was unable to be contacted at all.

This is both deeply frustrating and sad. Often there are nuggets of gold hidden in the policies of these Independents. There may also be landmines. The problem is, we can’t inform you, our readers, if we don’t have anything to explore.

As things stand, we can’t provide either positive or negative recommendations. We don’t think anyone should infer anything about these candidates’ motivations or commitment, either. Our reason for this post is to let readers know that we have not overlooked or discounted these Independents, but were just unable to find any details to bring to you all.

It’s possible one or more of these candidates will see this post. To them we’d like to say, drop us a comment. We’d still love to correspond with you.

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