Continuing in the spirit of Cate Speaks
| Website: | shootersfishersandfarmers.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Instagram — Twitter — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | It’s Your Powerful Voice |
| Themes: | Anything worth doing is worth half-assing |
| Upper House Electorates: | Tasmania & Victoria |
| Lower House Electorates: | Calare, Farrer, Hunter, Lindsay, Lyons, Page, Parkes & Riverina |
| Preferences: | not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2022 VIC — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010 |
| Website: | australiasvoice.com.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Instagram — Twitter |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Don’t Waste Your Vote This Election… |
| Themes: | What if the ALP was actually a party of the Left? |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria & West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | none |
| Preferences: | Not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
| Website: | www.crikey.com.au/topic/crikey-for-pm |
| Social Media: | none |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | none |
| Themes: | none |
| Upper House Electorates: | Victoria |
| Lower House Electorates: | none |
| Preferences: | To quote from the site: We really, really don’t want to win, and we won’t be making preferences |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
| Website: | legalisecannabis.org.au |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Instagram — X/Twitter 1 — X/Twitter 2 — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party |
| Slogans: | In this case, the party name pretty much is the slogan |
| Themes: | Civil rights and health, with a particular focus on smokin’ a bunch of weed |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria & West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | Bendigo, Blair, Bonner, Bruce, Bullwinkel, Calwell, Cooper, Corangamite, Cowper, Dickson, Dobell, Dunkley, Forrest, Gilmore, Gorton, Hasluck, Hawke, Holt, Hunter, Leichardt, Lyne, McEwen, Paterson, Pearce, Richmond, Robertson, Tangney, Werriwa & Wills |
| Preferences: | None. |
| Previous Reviews: | 2022 — 2019 — 2013 |
| Website: | trumpetofpatriots.org |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — YouTube |
| Previous Names: | Australian Federation Party, Country Alliance, Australian Country Party and Australian Country Party: Give it Back! |
| Slogans: | Commonsense Policies for All Australians |
| Themes: | Labor, the Liberals, and the Greens have ruined everything, so give us a go! |
| Upper House Electorates: | New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and West Australia |
| Lower House Electorates: | Adelaide, Aston, Banks, Barker, Barton, Bass, Bennelong, Berowra, Blair, Bonner, Boothby, Bowman, Braddon, Bradfield, Brisbane, Bruce, Calare, Calwell, Capricornia, Casey, Chifley, Chisholm, Cook, Corangamite, Cowan, Cowper, Dawson, Deakin, Dickson, Dobell, Durack, Eden-Monaro, Fadden, Fairfax, Farrer, Fisher, Flinders, Flynn, Forde, Forrest, Gilmore, Goldstein, Greenway, Grey, Griffith, Groom, Herbert, Hindmarsh, Hinkler, Hughes, Hume, Hunter, Kennedy, Kingston, Kooyong, La Trobe, Leichardt, Lilley, Lindsay, Longman, Lyne, Lyons, Mackellar, Makin, Mallee, Maranoa, Mayo, McPherson, Menzies, Mitchell, Monash, Moncrieff, Moore, Moreton, Newcastle, New England, Nicholls, O’Connor, Oxley, Page, Parkes, Parramatta, Paterson, Petrie, Rankin, Reid, Richmond, Robertson, Ryan, Scullin, Spence, Sturt, Wannon, Warringah, Watson, Werriwa, Whitlam, Wide Bay & Wright |
| Preferences: | Not yet available |
| Previous Reviews: | 2022 — 2019 (as the Australian Country Party) — 2018 (VIC, as the Australian Country Party: Give it Back!) — 2014 (VIC, as the Australian Country Alliance) — 2013 (as the Australian Country Alliance) |
| Website: | Vote 1 Viesha Lewand, JP for Australian Senate 2025 |
| Social Media: | Facebook — Twitter — LinkedIn — Substack |
| Previous Names: | none |
| Slogans: | Let’s do this together — Standing up for what we believe in for a future we will1Yes, that’s where the sentence ends. The original is also in ALL CAPS, but I decided to spare you that. |
| Themes: | good question |
| Electorates: | Upper House: Victoria Lower House: none |
| Preferences: | None provided, however Lewand has stated that Senators I respect and will support are Gerard Rennick and Malcolm Roberts who have proven themselves by always supporting Australians first. Take that for what it’s worth. |
| Previous Reviews: | none |
As with every election, there’s some folks – almost always independents – who go to all the trouble of registering, and then don’t seem to do anything else. In these days of our terminally online culture, they somehow manage to slip through the cracks and remain unfindable online, at least to our sophisticated search techniques, which consist of using the following search terms:
(Yes, we could include the year, but the recency bias of most search engines makes that unnecessary.)
Gentle reader, if you should stumble across any of the folk listed below in the course of your internet wanderings – or if you are one of the folk listed below – please let us know! We want to give everyone the best coverage we can.
The Group T independents are all somewhat MIA: Found them!
In the Ungrouped section, four of the eight candidates are unfindable:
Wow, we’ve actually found almost everyone this year! We can only hope that this is not a portent of the Apocalypse.
Please note that all links to commentaries predating the 2022 election are hosted on Cate Speaks, only more recent reviews are hosted on this site. In addition, Queensland is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
Ungrouped Candidates:
Please note that all links to commentaries predating the 2022 election are hosted on Cate Speaks, only more recent reviews are hosted on this site. In addition, New South Wales is not our primary focus, so not all candidates or parties listed here may be reviewed.
GROUPS
Ungrouped Candidates:
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