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Geraldine Marie Antoinette Gonsalvez
Independent

April 29, 2022 / / 5 Comments

Summary

Website: geraldinegonsalvez.com
Social Media: Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Your vote can and will change the future. So please do not waste your chance because the future depends on how you vote today.
Themes: Social Justice through a Catholic lens
Electorates:

Upper House: Victoria

Lower House: not applicable
Preferences: EDIT: So, on the front page of her site, Geraldine has a guide to how to fill out your ballot, which shows a listing of 12 candidates. It’s labelled as “EXAMPLE”, but it also seems less than random. Assuming that it does represent her actual preferences, it would show a grab bag of fellow independents, right leaning parties and anti-vaxxers. Aside from the three ungrouped independents listed, everyone else there is someone I’d rather not see in Parliament, so this actually makes me less likely to rank her highly. (You can find them all listed in the comments below.)
Previous Reviews: none

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Australia One

April 28, 2022 / / 3 Comments

Summary

Website: australiaoneparty.com
Social Media: Facebook — Telegram — Rumble — Bitchute — Gab
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Our Best Future
It’s Time for Australians to Take Back their Country
Themes: Politicians are corrupt
Politics is corrupt
We’ve lost our way
Electorates: Upper House: Queensland and Tasmania

Lower House: Barker, Bendigo, Boothby, Canning, Casey, Chisholm, Dunkley & Greenaway
Preferences: not yet available
Previous Reviews: none

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Have you seen this candidate?

April 28, 2022 / / 26 Comments

It never fails. Every election, there’s always some independents who can’t be found online. Either they have no profile, or there are enough people with the same name that it isn’t clear which one they are.

We do search for them: we put their names, as given on the ballot paper, into search engines, and look for them, appending terms such as “parliament”, “senate”, “facebook” and “twitter”. Somehow, they continue to elude us, despite these measures.

So, we’re putting out a call to you, our readers. Can you point us at the details of any of the following candidates? Allen Ridgeway, Bernardine Atkinson, Nat de Francesco and David John Dillon.

Everyone else has been located and will be being reviewed soon, but these four are the Scarlet Pimpernels of this election. And unless we know what they stand for, we’re not going to be able to review them fairly, and they will, perforce, be place lower in our preferences than might otherwise be the case.

EDIT: Thank you to our eagle-eyed readers, all of these MIA politicians have now been located, as you can see in the comments below! You can now read about Allen Ridgeway, Bernardine Atkinson, Nat de Francesco and David John Dillon to your heart’s content.

Australian Values Party

April 28, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: australianvalues.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — YouTube — Instagram — LinkedIn
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Politics Leadership
Themes: If it can be federalised, it should be. Serving and veteran military people deserve special treatment under law. Economic value is the most important kind unless we say otherwise.
Electorates:

Upper House: New South Australia, Queensland, West Australia & Victoria

Lower House: Blair, McPherson, Kooyong & Wide Bay
Preferences: not yet available
Previous Reviews: none

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Australian Progressives

April 26, 2022 / / 1 Comment

Summary

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

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Tara Tran
Independent

April 25, 2022 / / 2 Comments

Summary

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

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Citizen’s Party

April 25, 2022 / / 3 Comments

Summary

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

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Peter Byrne and Jason Wardle (Socialist Equality Party)

April 24, 2022 / / 1 Comment

Summary

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

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