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Victorian Senate Candidates 2025

April 12, 2025 / / 6 Comments

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.

GROUPS

  1. Coalition
  2. Legalise Cannabis Australia (previously Help End Marijuana Prohibition aka HEMP Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013
  3. Animal Justice Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2014 — 2013
  4. Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia — Official Site
    Commentaries: 20252022 (VIC)
  5. Australia’s Voice — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025
  6. FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency — Official Site
    Commentary: 20252022 — Created by the merger of:
    • Science Party — Commentaries: 2019 — 2016
    • Pirate Party Australia — Commentaries: 2019 — 2013
    • Secular Party of Australia — Commentaries: 2019 — 2013 — 2010
    • Climate Emergency Action Alliance: Vote Planet
    • Climate Change Justice Party
    • Australian Progressives — Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2016
    • Democracy First
  7. Keo Vongvixay & Taylor Hernan (formerly the Socialist Equality Party, now deregistered) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  8. Trumpet of Patriots (formerly Australian Federation Party and Australian Country Alliance) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013
  9. Australian Labor Party — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  10. Family First Party — Official Website
    Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  11. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  12. Australian Democrats — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  13. Victorian Socialists — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC)
  14. Sustainable Australia Party – Universal Basic Income (formerly the Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption and the Stable Population Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 — 2013
  15. Gerard Rennick People First / Heart Party
    • Gerard Rennick People First — Official Site
      Commentaries: 2025
    • Heart Party (formerly Informed Medical Options Party and Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party) — Official Site
      Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 — 2019
  16. Libertarian Party (formerly the Liberal Democratic Party)– Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  17. The Greens — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  18. Citizens Party (formerly Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2022 — 2019 — 2013 — 2010
  19. Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (formerly Shooters and Fishers Party) — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025 — 2022 (VIC) — 2022 — 2019 — 2018 (VIC) — 2014 (VIC) — 2013 — 2010
  20. Raj Saini, Kirti Alle & Yashaswini Srinivas Kanakagiri — Official Site
    Commentaries: 2025

Ungrouped Candidates:

Gerard Rennick People First Party

April 24, 2025 / / 1 Comment

Summary

 

Website: peoplefirstparty.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter — YouTube
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Putting the People First. Always.
Themes: ideology bad – except our ideology, ours is good
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Blair, Brisbane, Dawson, Fadden, Fairfax, Farrer, Fisher, Flinders, Flynn, Griffith, Herbert, Maranoa, McEwen, McPherson,  Moncrieff, Moreton, Rankin, Richmond, Ryan, Scullin & Wright
Preferences: GRPF is a part of the Australia First Alliance (watch this space, though). Its HTV card for Victoria directs above-the-line voting, with itself and the HEART Party first. Libertarians are at 2, followed by Family First, Citizens Party, Trumpet of Patriots and One Nation.
Previous Reviews: none

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Indigenous – Aboriginal Party of Australia

April 23, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: www.indigenouspartyofaustralia.com
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: For a voice IN parliament
Themes: Justice and equity for Indigenous Australians
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Queensland & Victoria
Lower House Electorates: Durack, Lingiari & Parkes
Preferences: The IAPA has only provided a preference card for the QLD Senate, but it’s unlikely their preferences would differ that much. So, we have Socialist Alliance at 2, followed by Legalise Cannabis and Australia’s Voice at 3 and 4. Fusion come in at 5 and the Greens at 6. Mostly left-leaning parties, which isn’t terribly surprising. And it gives some idea of how they might vote outside of their declared policies areas.
Previous Reviews: 2022 (VIC)

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Susantha Abeysinghe
Independent

April 23, 2025 / / 1 Comment

Summary

Website: Official Site (Facebook)
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter
Previous Names: none
Slogans: Interest Rate Must Go Down. Cost of living must go down. Present Council and Government Recruitment Policy Must Change.
Themes: free tertiary education, free aged care, crack down on scammers, build more mountains!
Upper House Electorates: Victoria
Lower House Electorates: none
Preferences: none
Previous Reviews: none

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FUSION | Planet Rescue | Whistleblower Protection | Innovation

April 21, 2025 / / 8 Comments

Summary

Website: www.fusionparty.org.au
Social Media: Facebook — Twitter — YouTube — Instagram — TikTok — Mastodon
Previous Names: Last time around, they were the Climate Change Justice Party, Pirate Party, Science Party, Secular Party of Australia, and Vote Planet before they, ahem, Fused. For this election, they have added the Australian Progressives and Democracy First to the roster.
Slogans: A grassroots movement with big ideas
People like you
Let’s stop and actually reverse global heating
Themes: As above: Planet Rescue, Whistleblower Protection and Innovation
Upper House Electorates: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria & West Australia
Lower House Electorates: Adelaide, Bennelong, Berowra, Cowper, Dunkley, Hindmarsh, McEwen, Makin, Melbourne & Wills
Preferences: Not yet provided, but their website does give this statement of intention regarding them:
Fusion will recommend preferences based on other candidates’ alignment with our vision and principles. Fusion aligns with other parties that value action on the climate emergency, integrity in politics, pragmatic solutions to a stronger economy, justice, equity, and social responsibility.
It’s fair to say that we do not regard the current government as good or effective, and have created the party to provide voters with an alternative that reflects their views.
Previous Reviews: From the 2022 election:

  • Fusion Party — 2022
  • Australian Progressives — 2022

In addition, some of their constituent parts have been reviewed by Cate in the past:

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HEART Party

April 17, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Summary

Website: heartparty.com.au
Social Media: Facebook — Instagram — Telegram — Twitter — YouTube
Previous Names: Informed Medical Options Party & Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party
Slogans: Real Change Needs a Brave HEART
Issues at the HEART of All Australians
Themes: Anti-vaccine, pro “natural” therapies, and just a whiff of conspiracy theory.
Upper House Electorates: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland & Victoria
Lower House Electorates: Bennelong, Canberra, Eden-Monaro & Lindsay
Preferences: The HEART Party is a member of the Australia First Alliance group of far-right parties. Untangling the preference swaps in this Alliance is a nightmare, and Great Australian Party spokesperson William Bay’s accusation that the Libertarians have done secret deals with the Liberal Party has seen several vocal supporters hurrying to Instagram and Facebook to post videos exhorting followers of HP to abandon the Libertarians. At this point, all I can tell you with any certainty is that – inexplicably – HP is advising voters to preference People First ahead of their own candidates.
Previous Reviews: 2022 — 2019

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