Who's running for the Senate, and who the heck are they?

[omegamorningsta]

Okay.. let's talk politics for a moment.

If you don't want some politician to decide where your  preferences are going to... if you want to be sure of where your votes are going in the current election - then you need to vote below the line.

This is a really useful website - you can work out your choices, and it will print you out a reminder you can

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[halloranelder]

Another useful one (and done by a friend of mine) is:

https://www.belowtheline.org.au/

[omegamorningsta]

ooh, that looks cool, thank you! :)

[fredchook]

Excellent post, and I think I shall share it around! Some of the obscure parties really are fascinatingly bizarre. For instance, the CEC believe that the country is secretly run by Napoleonic Freemason cults. And the Secular Party muddy their core issue with a free-market libertarian edge.

[omegamorningsta]

thank you, go ahead and share it as much as you like...

[strangedave]

I was going to say that that summary made the CEC sound rather more sane than their own material does. I'm on their mailing list, there is quite a bit of conspiracy theory.

[meredyth_13]

When it comes down to it, that list really is rather appalling, isn't it? But thank you so much for taking the time to put this information together. It's always wonderful to be informed, less so to realise that the information just leads one to despair. :D

Even the most rational of them are still far from ideal, and most of them seem to be about fear, repression and ignorance masked as 'values'. What a sad state we live in.

[omegamorningsta]

there were definitely some surprises in the list for me.. really though, this is the minimum you'd reasonably want to know in order to make an informed vote... I agree some of it is depressing, but imagine how much worse you'd feel if you accidentally voted for someone who was against all the things you stand for... THAT would be bad.

[tikiwanderer]

That was how I felt when I looked up the Labour Democrats - the name sounded about right, but then I saw them apologising to communities for having to have geothermal and wind power and promising to fight these horrible evil forms of electricity, and saw their statement about supporting families by not allowing any of those gay people to be legally recognised, and went "Uhhh... that's not what I thought I was going to see here..."

Great post, thanks for putting it up! Really helpful. I'd done some of the research already but hadn't even been able to find the Building Australia group's page.

[torak303]

(found via melbournemaniac post)
This is great! Hope you don't mind, I'm going to put this up on Twitter :)

[omegamorningsta]

go for it, the more people that get use out of it the better, I say :)

Who's running for the Senate, and who the heck are they?

[kaths]

Thank you very much!