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Preferential Treatment

No, not that kind.

Preference cards are now becoming available – the ABC has a central record of them here – and so we’ve updated the parties that we’ve already covered with a look at their preferences, and if the preferences are available, they’ll be covered in any newly published posts too.

Information about preferences is now provided for the following parties:

Any party reviewed after the publication of this post will also have its preferences listed, assuming that they have provided them.

Legalise Cannabis Party

Summary

Website: legalisecannabis.org.au
Social Media: Facebook
Previous Names: Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
Slogans: Reduce Harm, Create Jobs and Save Money
Themes:
Electorates: Upper House: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia
Lower House: Longman
Preferences: This party is having no truck with How to Vote nonsense. Its official card advises people to put the Legalise Cannabis Party 1 above the line, and then to select at least six parties of their own choice.
Previous Reviews: 20192013

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Australian Democrats

Summary

Website: www.democrats.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitter
Slogans: Bring Back Integrity, Transparency and Trust
Themes: Government accountability, Evidence not ideology
Electorates: Upper House: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia
Lower House: none
Preferences: There are a few surprises on the Australian Democrats’ How-To-Vote card. The complete absence of the major two parties is to be expected, given the Democrats’ historic commitment towards balance-of-power politics. Preferencing the Reason Party first, followed by Independent Susan Benedyka, is in line with the broadly centrist position of the Democrats. What’s more unexpected is the next three preferences, all of which are squarely on the left side of politics: Sustainable Australia, the Australian Progressives, and the Greens. All these parties are far more interventionist than the Democrats, so I think preferencing them is purely about their climate change policies.
Previous Reviews: 201920132010

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Shooters
Fishers and Farmers Party

Summary

Website: www.shootersfishersandfarmers.org.au
Social Media: FacebookTwitterInstagramYouTube
Slogans: It’s Your Powerful Voice
Protecting your freedoms, our farmers and the future of outdoor sports
Themes: Guns, no vaccine mandates, rural Australia, guns
Electorates: Upper House: New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria
Lower House: Farrer, Hume, Maranoa & Riverina (possibly others, see below)
Preferences: not yet available
Previous Reviews: Official Site
Commentaries: 20192018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 20132010

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