Candidates for the Qld Senate 2022. Why AM I still doing this?
The moderators abandoned Brisneyland LJ and I don't blame them. New posts aren't added. But I can edit an old post and raise livejournal from the grave - just like the Australian Democrats have risen again!
--don't confuse them with Liberal Democrats. They have a different sort of blast from the past; Campbell Newman is their lead candidate.
Picking splinters of One Nation out of your ballot this year: Group A lead candidate is a former One Nation senator. Group H is the former LNP MP who defected to One Nation 2017 and was actually on the senate ticket for PHON after Malcolm Roberts last federal election but resigned over the strip club footage in April 2019 PLUS Rebecca Lloyd who was going to be PHON's Brisbane House of Reps candidate this year but was disendorsed April 2022 over her website; M is Rod Culleton's Great Australian Party (the WA One Nation senator that went independent, but was found ineligible because of a larceny conviction in NSW) and the last of the Ungrouped, Peter Rogers, is a former PHON candidate. Pauline Hanson herself has finisher her senate term and is lead candidate up for re-election at X. PHON's second is a guy who worked for Adani.
Donkeyvotie is updated, and you can read their funny and informative snark on all parties here: http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
If you'd like more serious, unbiased policy round-up explainer video, watch Auspol Explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-nzbifey2c
Other useful links updated for 2022:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/guides
https://voteclimateone.org.au/electoral-division/brisbane/
https://democracysausage.org/
Dr Bonham's strategic voting advice has been updated.
https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-to-make-best-use-of-your-2022.html
Vote organisers:
ps://www.clueyvoter.com for your thumbs up and down sorting baskets
https://www.finder.com.au/senate-voting-card-creator for your easier drag-and-drop candidates if you like to reorder within parties.
"Who ARE the Ungrouped?" is easily answered this time areound as they all lead candidates have wiki pages. Group A Len Harris and Group H Steve Dickson, mentioned above, are hyperlinked on the wiki page of all federal candidates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_2022_Australian_federal_election
Group I strangely is not. Here it is. wiki.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Head
Dr. Mike Head is an experienced candidate for the Socialist Equality party. It was deregistered like a lot of small parties who were not able to increase there membership in time to meet new rules in the very small window of opportunity for membership drives, hampered by covid lockdowns.
It did unclutter the senate ballot. Antony Green, the ABC election analysist, talked about the Morrison government legislation last year. https://antonygreen.com.au/more-on-minimum-membership-requirements-for-registering-political-parties/
Clive Palmer got around the membership drive problem by recruiting a sitting MP, Craig Kelly, to UAP. A number of small progressive parties you might wonder at their disappearance manage to appear on the ticket by forming FUSION, kind of like a cartoon crystal gem super hero. Yet another way to get around not having enough members to form a federally registered political party is register a corporation, like Australia One has, and run candidates as independants with shared policies like Lindsay Temple, a former DLP candidate now running in the Ungrouped, is doing. It's been said Australia One is an unregistered party by design, though.
You don't get candidates direct contacts published by the AEC anymore. The only info is the occupation they list. Here's the offical AEC candidate list if your postcode's 4000, you can check your own. https://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm?suburb=Brisbane%20City&division=Brisbane&state=QLD
Here's the eight independant candidates. Only one steadfastly refuses to allow any information about his intentions as senator into the public domain, Kochardy, but he hails from an era before social media and probably thinks Murdoch newspapers are sufficient. Two are actually "party" candidates. The Katter Party perhaps could not find a running mate for their candidate to appear above the line, but they definitely remain a federally registered party. Only three seem to have had no previous experience as political candidates: Robert Lyon, Chey Hamilton, and Laurence Quinlan.
Robert Lyon https://kap.org.au/ still has no bio as of May 9, only a pic, but Katter Party policy is well known. Only slightly more info in this facebook post. Farmer. You would have guessed that.
https://www.facebook.com/KAPHinchinbrook/posts/987818685279356
David John Schefe https://www.facebook.com/davidjschefe A carpenter who ran for mayor in Roma in 2020
Lindsay Temple http://lindsaytemple2022.com/ Australia One, an unregistered political party given as one of the ten "Freedom Parties" on Joel Jammal's site, Turning Point Australia. It has the most socially reactionary policies.
Chey Geoffrey Hamilton https://www.facebook.com/IndependentSenator4QLD Has independent website, Linked-In, and facebook where he says he will preference Labor. Drought and disaster relief interest. Occupation: banker.
Lorraine Smith https://www.facebook.com/Lorraine-Smith-Senate-Candidate-Independent-107209618643893
former Drug Reform Party candidate. Has business facebook for Little Green Shed where her last public post is oddly for the Great Australian Party candidate, and previous post supports the Canberra Freedom Rally. Her candidate page mostly just says "Freedom".
Laurence Quinlivan https://www.facebook.com/Senator-for-Seniors-Queensland-105474242150643/ Retired academic campaigning for a Hospital For Seniors. Has shown an interest in PNG political situation, multicultural arts and disability support, elsewhere on the net.
Karakan Karoly Kochardy Papers describe his as Ipswich businessman, AEC describes as pensioner and the only pictures of him are at the Ipswich Mayoral candidate debate 2020, If you read Murdoch papers you might know a bit about him, but I don't so I don't, apart from the headline he offered to donate his pay if elected. https://www.couriermail.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=CMWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couriermail.com.au%2Fnews%2Fqueensland%2Fipswich%2Fcandidate-says-he-will-donate-all-of-his-pay-if-elected%2Fnews-story%2Fe43ba28588553cae3d43c443e0b32ed2&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-hot-test-score&V21spcbehaviour=append
Peter Rogers http://www.peterrogers.com.au is another candidate that resigned from One Nation. Occupation: semi retired company director https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-13/one-nation-queensland-candidate-peter-rogers-resigns/8180304
Its actually been a bit harder than usual to find party candidate info, which is usually available in a bio on their official party page. Tally room has the best collection of links to what there is, if you scroll down past the useful history of Qld senate giving you the current state of play: https://www.tallyroom.com.au/aus2022/qldsen2022/comment-page-3
But as of May 16 2022, they still don't link
I - Mike Head to Social Equality, as the SEP haven't put up a current candidate page so you are forced to dig out last federal elections when he ran as an MP for Oxley: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2428187840526385&id=131401820205010
K - Lionel Henaway (Indigenous-Aboriginal Party). Their site just links you to the senate candidate's facebook pages. Lional has an archived bio with his previous party, Rise Up Australia. https://www.riseupaustraliabrisbane.com/lionel-henaway-b
https://www.facebook.com/lionel.henaway.79
https://www.facebook.com/jennylee.carr
O - Isabel Tilyard (Federation) now easily available on their site.
https://ausfedparty.com.au/candidate/isabel-tilyard/
I've used this forum to find you the Ungrouped and Independents for Queensland for a few federal elections now, and as we don't have any Queensland focussed policy reviewers, to list reviews from Cate Speaks of Vic, b_auspol of NSW and axvoter of WA in Queensland ballot order. A few months ago, the blogger from "Cate Speaks" passed away tragically young. I cannot express what a deep loss this is, and tears well as I write. She was a multi-talented national treasure, and I long ago decided Qlders were better served by me passing on her reviews than writing my own. Her friends are carrying on her passionate work at "Something for Cate".
I have included their preference position on the How-to-Vote of LNP, Labor, Greens, and Turning Point - Joel Jamal's anti-mandate and socially reactionary guide from my left wing perspective, but they lay out their policy matrix well, and if you don't align with all my lefty reviewers, it might be a quicker way to find someone that represents you. https://www.tpaust.com.au/reasonstovote/?fbclid=IwAR3wPDrX5JHNhQAI2dZP75lzMjq3H5T6OyW-BrouRMDu3Fczv4nmJH0M0RI
Group Name
A Not Affiliated see http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
the digitised land titles just seem to be a non-issue https://www.governing.com/next/why-land-titles-need-to-go-digital
B (Greens 2nd) Socialist Alliance
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/06/socialist-alliance/#more-400
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12343.html
C (Greens 4th) Legalise Cannabis Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11192.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/09/legalise-cannabis-party/#more-459
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/13/sustainable-australia-p
D Sustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12617.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/13/sustainable-australia-p
E (Lab 5th) Reason Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11531.html
F TNL https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/13499.html
https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Victor+Kline
G (Lab 6th) Federal ICAC Now https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10007.html
https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Ross+Jones
H Not Affiliated google has news stories and many links on both Steve Dickson and
Rebecca Lloyd
I Not Affiliated
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/04/24/peter-byrne-and-jason-wardle/ (Vic candidates but same policies)
J (Lab 2nd) Queensland Greens https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/06/the-greens/#more-389
K Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10700.html https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/683314648168153088/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xiv-federal
L Citizens Party https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682496753815126016/blatantly-partisan-party-review-iii-federal
M (TP 6th) The Great Australian Party
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/01/the-great-australian-party/ https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12834.html
N (TP 4th,LNP 5th) Australian Values Party
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682677957788090368/blatantly-partisan-party-review-vii-federal
O (TP 5th) Australian Federation Party
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682587372726157312/blatantly-partisan-party-review-v-federal-2022
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/14/australian-federation-party/#more-588
P (Lab,Greens,3rd) Animal Justice Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/8962.html
Q (Lab 4, LNP 6) Australian Democrats
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682499276842090496/blatantly-partisan-party-review-iv-federal-2022
R (TP 3rd,LNP 3rd) United Australia Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/14960.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/11/united-australia-party/#more-523
S Liberal National Party of Queensland
https://www.somethingforcate.net/category/qld/
T (TP 8th) Informed Medical Options Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10866.html
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/683402746755530752/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xv-federal-2022
U (Greens 6th) FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/tag/fusion
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/12/fusion-science-pirate-secular-climate-emergency/#more-514
V (TP 7th) Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682949741128073216/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xi-federal-2022
W (TP 2nd, LNP 4th) Liberal Democrats
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11369.html
X (TP 1st, LNP 2nd) Pauline Hanson's One Nation
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/04/19/phon/#more-114
Y (Greens 5th) Australian Labor Party
https://www.somethingforcate.net/category/qld/
That's it. Happy Voting!
Below this line is the post from May 11 2019, our last federal election.
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Who ARE the Ungrouped? Candidates for Qld Senate 2019
Donkeyvotie is my favourite quick rundown on parties, but they rarely have time for the ungrouped as they cover all states, and the only Queenslander you'll learn about briefly is the very last name on our ballot, Paul Stevenson of the Mental Health Party, and I can't help but agree with Donkeyvotie's observation we could all do with some psychotherapy after this election, but I wouldn't call it a single issue party as much as a unifying lens.
Not that you have to agree with any of their jocular opinions, but its a great way to get the parties sorted in your head. http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
If you are still bewildered by the One Nation offshoots, wonder if Sustainable Australia is an environmental party (Hint:NO) or wonder what happened to Senator Online (It changed its name again, to use up all allowed six words and added three exclamation marks) and want something a bit more journalistic to consult, the Guardian has a great article. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/10/australian-election-2019-full-list-of-micro-parties-standing-in-the-senate
You can also give the smartvote quiz a go to find a compatible representative. I was dubious about my results but I suppose it's better than a facebook or okcupid quiz. https://australia.smartvote.org/en/home
Not everyone realises the AEC page that tells you where you can go to cast your vote in Brisbane also gives you the contacts for ALL THE CANDIDATES so you can ask them directly what they stand for. But the Ungrouped are, as a group, particularly bad at having their websites findable, so I'm going to add them below. https://aec.gov.au/election/qld/brisbane.htm
UG 1 LO-DEAN, Debby Independent Business Owner
Mobile: 0402 963 392
Email: debby.lo-dean@hotmail.com
Gold Coast local. "Small Business and Serving the Community" https://debbylodean.com/mystory/
UG 2 SHARPE, Gary Robert Independent Fitter & Turner
PO Box 2769
BUNDABERG QLD 4670
Mobile: 0458 422 168
Buggered if I know what he stands for. If I can't even find a facebook page I tend to lose interest. But you can ring him if you want.
UG 3 LARCOMBE, Paul Independent Self Employed
PO Box 1821
SUNNYBANK HILLS QLD 4109
Mobile: 0433 937 083
Email: paul@paullarcombe.com.au
Disability activist. http://www.paullarcombe.com.au/
UG 4 HASLER, Jane Independent Sociologist
Email: janehasler@live.com.au
Social justice advocate. https://au.linkedin.com/in/jane-hasler-3164481a Kind of wish I could find more than a linkedin. I appear to have found a letter to her rep urging them to support equal marriage, and she did fill out this survey so among the candidates whose answers you can compare to yours, as well as the smartvote quiz. https://gotform.net/elections/2019/au/federal/qld-senate.html
UG 5 WOODWARD, John Independent Farmer
632 Scrub Rd
THEEBINE QLD 4570
Phone (home): 07 5484 6419
Phone (work): 07 5484 6419
Mobile: 0419 672 410
Email: johnwoodward887@gmail.com
Anti-banks, and previously voted for Pauline Hanson because of her policies in that area, but became disillusioned. I'm surprised he's not a Citizen's Electoral Council party candidate. https://enddebtslavery.com.au/
UG 6 McARTHUR-WILLIAMS, Nicholas Independent Foreign Currency Broker
Mobile: 0481 239 177
Email: admin@bpaustralia.org
"Compassionate Capitalism" supporter. https://au.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-mcarthur-williams-b963336 Has a youtube as well as a linkedin. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCTuAhCXscVh2-CxpF9EZVAw
UG 7 GHULAM, Hassan Independent Community Worker
Mobile: 0427 711 166
Email: gulbargha@gmail.com
Refugee Advocate, President of the Hazara Ethnic Society https://www.facebook.com/hghulam3?fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARAeyMcH3j-aaNT7VJ_r0tUrX3qZdm4twpf6UPn8HHYfBN9wz3OBN6LtgZRs_bGAkrX-v6liqBfU88T8
UG 8 WHARTON, Wayne Independent Company Director
Mobile: 0408 064 900
Email: wayne.wharton@gmail.com
Aboriginal elder https://989fm.com.au/.../lets-talk-uncle-wayne-coco-wharton/
https://www.whartonforsenate.com/
UG 9 MURPHY, Amanda Independent Teacher
Mobile: 0420 715 459
Email: amandamurphyforchange@outlook.com
Environmentalist. https://www.facebook.com/Amanda-Murphy-for-senate-343553296297402/
UG 10 STEVENSON, Paul Joseph The Australian Mental Health Party Psychologist
Phone (home): 07 3232 1254 Phone (work): 07 3232 1254
https://www.amhp.org.au/
My favourite ballot organiser is https://www.finder.com.au/senate-voting-card-creator. If you like to vote independent and number every square, you can put the UG first as a party group, get your parties sorted, then drag and drop individuals anywhere you like! Handy if you have a particualar person you want to put last. Print it out and when people wave their how to vote cards at you, you have one to wave back!
ClueyVoter is also offering their public service again this election, which is good if you just use Ungrouped Independents as a sort of buffer between your likes and dislikes. The "pollie-filler" strategy. https://www.clueyvoter.com/order-groups/?election=au-qld-2019-05-18
We have two sets of Grouped Independents this election, R and X.
If your remember bRavehearts founder (child protection advocate) https://www.hettyjohnston.com.au/,
and eX-Family First candidate (would protect children against Safe Schools and abortion) https://www.tonymoore.info/, you'll have them sorted which is which.
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE? IMPORTANT LINK! https://democracysausage.org/
Finally, Cate has given bonus Eurovision song themes to her review of policy pages, this election. Check them out.
A Rise Up Australia Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-rise-up-australia/#more-2652
B Pauline Hanson's One Nation
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/02/federal-election-2019-meet-pauline-hansons-one-nation/#more-2465
C United Australia Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-the-united-australia-party/#more-2526
D Liberal National Party of Queensland
Ok, Cate's a Victorian, so we have to pick our own Eurovision Theme song here. Add yours in comments.
E Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/14/federal-election-2019-involuntary-medication-objectors-vaccination-fluoride-party/
F Climate Action! Immigration Action! Accountable Politicians!
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-climate-action-immigration-action-accountable-politicians/
G Animal Justice Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-the-animal-justice-party/
H The Greens
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/01/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-greens/
I FRASER ANNING'S CONSERVATIVE NATIONAL PARTY
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-fraser-annings-conservative-national-party/
J Australian Labor Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-labor-party/
K Independents For Climate Action Now
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-meet-independents-for-climate-action-now/
L Australian Workers Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-workers-party/
M Australian Better Families
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-better-families-party/
N Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
https://catespeaks.com/?s=Help+End+Marijuana+Prohibition+%28HEMP%29+Party
O Australian Conservatives
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/06/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-conservatives/
P Labour DLP
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/01/federal-election-2019-meet-the-democratic-labour-party/
Q Katter's Australian Party (KAP)
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/07/federal-election-2019-meet-katters-australian-party/
R Not Affiliated Johnston, Hetty and Mureau, Sue
Website above the Democracy Sausage link above. I'm going to pick a theme."My vmeste"(We Are Together)won for Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma4NoHgvb_0
S The Great Australian Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/23/federal-election-2019-meet-the-great-australian-party/
T Pirate Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-pirate-party-australia/
U Sustainable Australia
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-sustainable-australia/
V Love Australia or Leave
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/15/federal-election-2019-meet-love-australia-or-leave/
W Shooters, Fishers and Farmers
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-the-shooters-fishers-and-farmers-party/
X Not Affiliated Moore, Tony R and Moore, Cartia
Website above the Democracy Sausage link above. I'm going to pick a theme. It represented Malta and was the winning song at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. "Not My Soul". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoasvA5nutU
T Pirate Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-pirate-party-australia/
Y Liberal Democrats
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/30/federal-election-2019-meet-the-liberal-democratic-party/
Z Citizens Electoral Council
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/30/federal-election-2019-meet-the-citizens-electoral-council-of-australia/
UG Ungrouped
All the info I have found at the start of the post. If you want to pick them Eurovision theme music, go for it!
And here's a note from Dr Bonham on how to make your 2019 Australia Federal vote most effective.
http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-make-best-use-of-your-2019.html
--don't confuse them with Liberal Democrats. They have a different sort of blast from the past; Campbell Newman is their lead candidate.
Picking splinters of One Nation out of your ballot this year: Group A lead candidate is a former One Nation senator. Group H is the former LNP MP who defected to One Nation 2017 and was actually on the senate ticket for PHON after Malcolm Roberts last federal election but resigned over the strip club footage in April 2019 PLUS Rebecca Lloyd who was going to be PHON's Brisbane House of Reps candidate this year but was disendorsed April 2022 over her website; M is Rod Culleton's Great Australian Party (the WA One Nation senator that went independent, but was found ineligible because of a larceny conviction in NSW) and the last of the Ungrouped, Peter Rogers, is a former PHON candidate. Pauline Hanson herself has finisher her senate term and is lead candidate up for re-election at X. PHON's second is a guy who worked for Adani.
Donkeyvotie is updated, and you can read their funny and informative snark on all parties here: http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
If you'd like more serious, unbiased policy round-up explainer video, watch Auspol Explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-nzbifey2c
Other useful links updated for 2022:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2022/guides
https://voteclimateone.org.au/electoral-division/brisbane/
https://democracysausage.org/
Dr Bonham's strategic voting advice has been updated.
https://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-to-make-best-use-of-your-2022.html
Vote organisers:
ps://www.clueyvoter.com for your thumbs up and down sorting baskets
https://www.finder.com.au/senate-voting-card-creator for your easier drag-and-drop candidates if you like to reorder within parties.
"Who ARE the Ungrouped?" is easily answered this time areound as they all lead candidates have wiki pages. Group A Len Harris and Group H Steve Dickson, mentioned above, are hyperlinked on the wiki page of all federal candidates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_2022_Australian_federal_election
Group I strangely is not. Here it is. wiki.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Head
Dr. Mike Head is an experienced candidate for the Socialist Equality party. It was deregistered like a lot of small parties who were not able to increase there membership in time to meet new rules in the very small window of opportunity for membership drives, hampered by covid lockdowns.
It did unclutter the senate ballot. Antony Green, the ABC election analysist, talked about the Morrison government legislation last year. https://antonygreen.com.au/more-on-minimum-membership-requirements-for-registering-political-parties/
Clive Palmer got around the membership drive problem by recruiting a sitting MP, Craig Kelly, to UAP. A number of small progressive parties you might wonder at their disappearance manage to appear on the ticket by forming FUSION, kind of like a cartoon crystal gem super hero. Yet another way to get around not having enough members to form a federally registered political party is register a corporation, like Australia One has, and run candidates as independants with shared policies like Lindsay Temple, a former DLP candidate now running in the Ungrouped, is doing. It's been said Australia One is an unregistered party by design, though.
You don't get candidates direct contacts published by the AEC anymore. The only info is the occupation they list. Here's the offical AEC candidate list if your postcode's 4000, you can check your own. https://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm?suburb=Brisbane%20City&division=Brisbane&state=QLD
Here's the eight independant candidates. Only one steadfastly refuses to allow any information about his intentions as senator into the public domain, Kochardy, but he hails from an era before social media and probably thinks Murdoch newspapers are sufficient. Two are actually "party" candidates. The Katter Party perhaps could not find a running mate for their candidate to appear above the line, but they definitely remain a federally registered party. Only three seem to have had no previous experience as political candidates: Robert Lyon, Chey Hamilton, and Laurence Quinlan.
Robert Lyon https://kap.org.au/ still has no bio as of May 9, only a pic, but Katter Party policy is well known. Only slightly more info in this facebook post. Farmer. You would have guessed that.
https://www.facebook.com/KAPHinchinbrook/posts/987818685279356
David John Schefe https://www.facebook.com/davidjschefe A carpenter who ran for mayor in Roma in 2020
Lindsay Temple http://lindsaytemple2022.com/ Australia One, an unregistered political party given as one of the ten "Freedom Parties" on Joel Jammal's site, Turning Point Australia. It has the most socially reactionary policies.
Chey Geoffrey Hamilton https://www.facebook.com/IndependentSenator4QLD Has independent website, Linked-In, and facebook where he says he will preference Labor. Drought and disaster relief interest. Occupation: banker.
Lorraine Smith https://www.facebook.com/Lorraine-Smith-Senate-Candidate-Independent-107209618643893
former Drug Reform Party candidate. Has business facebook for Little Green Shed where her last public post is oddly for the Great Australian Party candidate, and previous post supports the Canberra Freedom Rally. Her candidate page mostly just says "Freedom".
Laurence Quinlivan https://www.facebook.com/Senator-for-Seniors-Queensland-105474242150643/ Retired academic campaigning for a Hospital For Seniors. Has shown an interest in PNG political situation, multicultural arts and disability support, elsewhere on the net.
Karakan Karoly Kochardy Papers describe his as Ipswich businessman, AEC describes as pensioner and the only pictures of him are at the Ipswich Mayoral candidate debate 2020, If you read Murdoch papers you might know a bit about him, but I don't so I don't, apart from the headline he offered to donate his pay if elected. https://www.couriermail.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=CMWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.couriermail.com.au%2Fnews%2Fqueensland%2Fipswich%2Fcandidate-says-he-will-donate-all-of-his-pay-if-elected%2Fnews-story%2Fe43ba28588553cae3d43c443e0b32ed2&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-hot-test-score&V21spcbehaviour=append
Peter Rogers http://www.peterrogers.com.au is another candidate that resigned from One Nation. Occupation: semi retired company director https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-13/one-nation-queensland-candidate-peter-rogers-resigns/8180304
Its actually been a bit harder than usual to find party candidate info, which is usually available in a bio on their official party page. Tally room has the best collection of links to what there is, if you scroll down past the useful history of Qld senate giving you the current state of play: https://www.tallyroom.com.au/aus2022/qldsen2022/comment-page-3
But as of May 16 2022, they still don't link
I - Mike Head to Social Equality, as the SEP haven't put up a current candidate page so you are forced to dig out last federal elections when he ran as an MP for Oxley: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2428187840526385&id=131401820205010
K - Lionel Henaway (Indigenous-Aboriginal Party). Their site just links you to the senate candidate's facebook pages. Lional has an archived bio with his previous party, Rise Up Australia. https://www.riseupaustraliabrisbane.com/lionel-henaway-b
https://www.facebook.com/lionel.henaway.79
https://www.facebook.com/jennylee.carr
O - Isabel Tilyard (Federation) now easily available on their site.
https://ausfedparty.com.au/candidate/isabel-tilyard/
I've used this forum to find you the Ungrouped and Independents for Queensland for a few federal elections now, and as we don't have any Queensland focussed policy reviewers, to list reviews from Cate Speaks of Vic, b_auspol of NSW and axvoter of WA in Queensland ballot order. A few months ago, the blogger from "Cate Speaks" passed away tragically young. I cannot express what a deep loss this is, and tears well as I write. She was a multi-talented national treasure, and I long ago decided Qlders were better served by me passing on her reviews than writing my own. Her friends are carrying on her passionate work at "Something for Cate".
I have included their preference position on the How-to-Vote of LNP, Labor, Greens, and Turning Point - Joel Jamal's anti-mandate and socially reactionary guide from my left wing perspective, but they lay out their policy matrix well, and if you don't align with all my lefty reviewers, it might be a quicker way to find someone that represents you. https://www.tpaust.com.au/reasonstovote/?fbclid=IwAR3wPDrX5JHNhQAI2dZP75lzMjq3H5T6OyW-BrouRMDu3Fczv4nmJH0M0RI
Group Name
A Not Affiliated see http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
the digitised land titles just seem to be a non-issue https://www.governing.com/next/why-land-titles-need-to-go-digital
B (Greens 2nd) Socialist Alliance
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/06/socialist-alliance/#more-400
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12343.html
C (Greens 4th) Legalise Cannabis Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11192.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/09/legalise-cannabis-party/#more-459
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/13/sustainable-australia-p
D Sustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12617.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/13/sustainable-australia-p
E (Lab 5th) Reason Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11531.html
F TNL https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/13499.html
https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Victor+Kline
G (Lab 6th) Federal ICAC Now https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10007.html
https://independentaustralia.net/site-search?q=Ross+Jones
H Not Affiliated google has news stories and many links on both Steve Dickson and
Rebecca Lloyd
I Not Affiliated
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/04/24/peter-byrne-and-jason-wardle/ (Vic candidates but same policies)
J (Lab 2nd) Queensland Greens https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/06/the-greens/#more-389
K Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10700.html https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/683314648168153088/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xiv-federal
L Citizens Party https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682496753815126016/blatantly-partisan-party-review-iii-federal
M (TP 6th) The Great Australian Party
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/01/the-great-australian-party/ https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/12834.html
N (TP 4th,LNP 5th) Australian Values Party
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682677957788090368/blatantly-partisan-party-review-vii-federal
O (TP 5th) Australian Federation Party
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682587372726157312/blatantly-partisan-party-review-v-federal-2022
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/14/australian-federation-party/#more-588
P (Lab,Greens,3rd) Animal Justice Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/8962.html
Q (Lab 4, LNP 6) Australian Democrats
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682499276842090496/blatantly-partisan-party-review-iv-federal-2022
R (TP 3rd,LNP 3rd) United Australia Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/14960.html
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/11/united-australia-party/#more-523
S Liberal National Party of Queensland
https://www.somethingforcate.net/category/qld/
T (TP 8th) Informed Medical Options Party
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/10866.html
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/683402746755530752/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xv-federal-2022
U (Greens 6th) FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/tag/fusion
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/05/12/fusion-science-pirate-secular-climate-emergency/#more-514
V (TP 7th) Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance
https://axvoter.tumblr.com/post/682949741128073216/blatantly-partisan-party-review-xi-federal-2022
W (TP 2nd, LNP 4th) Liberal Democrats
https://b-auspol.dreamwidth.org/11369.html
X (TP 1st, LNP 2nd) Pauline Hanson's One Nation
https://www.somethingforcate.net/2022/04/19/phon/#more-114
Y (Greens 5th) Australian Labor Party
https://www.somethingforcate.net/category/qld/
That's it. Happy Voting!
Below this line is the post from May 11 2019, our last federal election.
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Who ARE the Ungrouped? Candidates for Qld Senate 2019
Donkeyvotie is my favourite quick rundown on parties, but they rarely have time for the ungrouped as they cover all states, and the only Queenslander you'll learn about briefly is the very last name on our ballot, Paul Stevenson of the Mental Health Party, and I can't help but agree with Donkeyvotie's observation we could all do with some psychotherapy after this election, but I wouldn't call it a single issue party as much as a unifying lens.
Not that you have to agree with any of their jocular opinions, but its a great way to get the parties sorted in your head. http://www.donkeyvotie.org/
If you are still bewildered by the One Nation offshoots, wonder if Sustainable Australia is an environmental party (Hint:NO) or wonder what happened to Senator Online (It changed its name again, to use up all allowed six words and added three exclamation marks) and want something a bit more journalistic to consult, the Guardian has a great article. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/10/australian-election-2019-full-list-of-micro-parties-standing-in-the-senate
You can also give the smartvote quiz a go to find a compatible representative. I was dubious about my results but I suppose it's better than a facebook or okcupid quiz. https://australia.smartvote.org/en/home
Not everyone realises the AEC page that tells you where you can go to cast your vote in Brisbane also gives you the contacts for ALL THE CANDIDATES so you can ask them directly what they stand for. But the Ungrouped are, as a group, particularly bad at having their websites findable, so I'm going to add them below. https://aec.gov.au/election/qld/brisbane.htm
UG 1 LO-DEAN, Debby Independent Business Owner
Mobile: 0402 963 392
Email: debby.lo-dean@hotmail.com
Gold Coast local. "Small Business and Serving the Community" https://debbylodean.com/mystory/
UG 2 SHARPE, Gary Robert Independent Fitter & Turner
PO Box 2769
BUNDABERG QLD 4670
Mobile: 0458 422 168
Buggered if I know what he stands for. If I can't even find a facebook page I tend to lose interest. But you can ring him if you want.
UG 3 LARCOMBE, Paul Independent Self Employed
PO Box 1821
SUNNYBANK HILLS QLD 4109
Mobile: 0433 937 083
Email: paul@paullarcombe.com.au
Disability activist. http://www.paullarcombe.com.au/
UG 4 HASLER, Jane Independent Sociologist
Email: janehasler@live.com.au
Social justice advocate. https://au.linkedin.com/in/jane-hasler-3164481a Kind of wish I could find more than a linkedin. I appear to have found a letter to her rep urging them to support equal marriage, and she did fill out this survey so among the candidates whose answers you can compare to yours, as well as the smartvote quiz. https://gotform.net/elections/2019/au/federal/qld-senate.html
UG 5 WOODWARD, John Independent Farmer
632 Scrub Rd
THEEBINE QLD 4570
Phone (home): 07 5484 6419
Phone (work): 07 5484 6419
Mobile: 0419 672 410
Email: johnwoodward887@gmail.com
Anti-banks, and previously voted for Pauline Hanson because of her policies in that area, but became disillusioned. I'm surprised he's not a Citizen's Electoral Council party candidate. https://enddebtslavery.com.au/
UG 6 McARTHUR-WILLIAMS, Nicholas Independent Foreign Currency Broker
Mobile: 0481 239 177
Email: admin@bpaustralia.org
"Compassionate Capitalism" supporter. https://au.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-mcarthur-williams-b963336 Has a youtube as well as a linkedin. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCTuAhCXscVh2-CxpF9EZVAw
UG 7 GHULAM, Hassan Independent Community Worker
Mobile: 0427 711 166
Email: gulbargha@gmail.com
Refugee Advocate, President of the Hazara Ethnic Society https://www.facebook.com/hghulam3?fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARAeyMcH3j-aaNT7VJ_r0tUrX3qZdm4twpf6UPn8HHYfBN9wz3OBN6LtgZRs_bGAkrX-v6liqBfU88T8
UG 8 WHARTON, Wayne Independent Company Director
Mobile: 0408 064 900
Email: wayne.wharton@gmail.com
Aboriginal elder https://989fm.com.au/.../lets-talk-uncle-wayne-coco-wharton/
https://www.whartonforsenate.com/
UG 9 MURPHY, Amanda Independent Teacher
Mobile: 0420 715 459
Email: amandamurphyforchange@outlook.com
Environmentalist. https://www.facebook.com/Amanda-Murphy-for-senate-343553296297402/
UG 10 STEVENSON, Paul Joseph The Australian Mental Health Party Psychologist
Phone (home): 07 3232 1254 Phone (work): 07 3232 1254
https://www.amhp.org.au/
My favourite ballot organiser is https://www.finder.com.au/senate-voting-card-creator. If you like to vote independent and number every square, you can put the UG first as a party group, get your parties sorted, then drag and drop individuals anywhere you like! Handy if you have a particualar person you want to put last. Print it out and when people wave their how to vote cards at you, you have one to wave back!
ClueyVoter is also offering their public service again this election, which is good if you just use Ungrouped Independents as a sort of buffer between your likes and dislikes. The "pollie-filler" strategy. https://www.clueyvoter.com/order-groups/?election=au-qld-2019-05-18
We have two sets of Grouped Independents this election, R and X.
If your remember bRavehearts founder (child protection advocate) https://www.hettyjohnston.com.au/,
and eX-Family First candidate (would protect children against Safe Schools and abortion) https://www.tonymoore.info/, you'll have them sorted which is which.
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE? IMPORTANT LINK! https://democracysausage.org/
Finally, Cate has given bonus Eurovision song themes to her review of policy pages, this election. Check them out.
A Rise Up Australia Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-rise-up-australia/#more-2652
B Pauline Hanson's One Nation
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/02/federal-election-2019-meet-pauline-hansons-one-nation/#more-2465
C United Australia Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-the-united-australia-party/#more-2526
D Liberal National Party of Queensland
Ok, Cate's a Victorian, so we have to pick our own Eurovision Theme song here. Add yours in comments.
E Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/14/federal-election-2019-involuntary-medication-objectors-vaccination-fluoride-party/
F Climate Action! Immigration Action! Accountable Politicians!
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-climate-action-immigration-action-accountable-politicians/
G Animal Justice Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-the-animal-justice-party/
H The Greens
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/01/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-greens/
I FRASER ANNING'S CONSERVATIVE NATIONAL PARTY
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-fraser-annings-conservative-national-party/
J Australian Labor Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-labor-party/
K Independents For Climate Action Now
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-meet-independents-for-climate-action-now/
L Australian Workers Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/13/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-workers-party/
M Australian Better Families
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-better-families-party/
N Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
https://catespeaks.com/?s=Help+End+Marijuana+Prohibition+%28HEMP%29+Party
O Australian Conservatives
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/06/federal-election-2019-meet-the-australian-conservatives/
P Labour DLP
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/01/federal-election-2019-meet-the-democratic-labour-party/
Q Katter's Australian Party (KAP)
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/07/federal-election-2019-meet-katters-australian-party/
R Not Affiliated Johnston, Hetty and Mureau, Sue
Website above the Democracy Sausage link above. I'm going to pick a theme."My vmeste"(We Are Together)won for Belarus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma4NoHgvb_0
S The Great Australian Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/23/federal-election-2019-meet-the-great-australian-party/
T Pirate Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-pirate-party-australia/
U Sustainable Australia
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/04/federal-election-2019-meet-sustainable-australia/
V Love Australia or Leave
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/15/federal-election-2019-meet-love-australia-or-leave/
W Shooters, Fishers and Farmers
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/25/federal-election-2019-meet-the-shooters-fishers-and-farmers-party/
X Not Affiliated Moore, Tony R and Moore, Cartia
Website above the Democracy Sausage link above. I'm going to pick a theme. It represented Malta and was the winning song at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. "Not My Soul". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoasvA5nutU
T Pirate Party
https://catespeaks.com/2019/05/03/federal-election-2019-meet-the-pirate-party-australia/
Y Liberal Democrats
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/30/federal-election-2019-meet-the-liberal-democratic-party/
Z Citizens Electoral Council
https://catespeaks.com/2019/04/30/federal-election-2019-meet-the-citizens-electoral-council-of-australia/
UG Ungrouped
All the info I have found at the start of the post. If you want to pick them Eurovision theme music, go for it!
And here's a note from Dr Bonham on how to make your 2019 Australia Federal vote most effective.
http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-make-best-use-of-your-2019.html