#minorparties — Public Fediverse posts

How much does it cost to fight Pauline Hanson? Labor has options
By Clare Armstrong

Pauline Hanson has a knack for jettisoning positions no longer deemed politically useful without blowback but Labor is getting more deliberate about how it fights a fickle One Nation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-22/labor-advertisements-one-nation-coalition-superannuation/107058402

#GovernmentandPolitics #OneNation #PoliticalParties #Elections #AustralianFederalElections #ALP #MinorParties #StateandTerritoryParliament #Parliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ClareArmstrong

Hanson faces rough political seas beyond the Mediterranean
By Clare Armstrong

Many voters are unhappy with the hand they feel successive governments have dealt them and no one has tapped into that better than Pauline Hanson.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-19/pauline-hanson-one-nation-dolce-gabbana-liberals-taylor/106928124

#GovernmentandPolitics #PoliticalParties #Elections #OneNation #AustralianFederalElections #CommunityandSociety #MinorParties #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Parliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ClareArmstrong

New political parties are trying to harvest Victorians' votes
By Casey Briggs

New political parties are seeking to exploit Victoria's anachronistic electoral system in the upper house, to harvest voters' preferences and funnel them wherever they please.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-15/victoria-election-group-voting-tickets-one-nation/106914588

#Elections #GovernmentandPolitics #StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryElections #LocalGovernment #PoliticalParties #ElectoralSystem #Parliament #MinorParties #CaseyBriggs

Why Charlotte Mortlock thinks she can change politics in Australia https://www.byteseu.com/2006217/ #AngusTaylor #Australia #CharlotteMortlock #CharlotteMortlockPolitics #DaveMarchese #DavidMarchese #hilmas #liberals #MinorParties #MinorPartiesAustralia #OneNation #SomethingBetter #SomethingBetterAustralia #SussanLey #TheLiberalParty #TripleJ #TripleJHack #TripleJPodcast

Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals, will sit as independent
By Clare Armstrong

The former leader and deputy prime minister has confirmed his long-awaited political move.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-27/barnaby-joyce-quits-nationals/106073080

#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #PoliticalParties #AustralianFederalElections #PaulineHansonsOneNation #NationalPartyofAustralia #MinorParties #Elections #ClareArmstrong

THE MAGIC of #PreferentialVoting.

Australia has preferential voting so a person can make their #vote transfer to another candidate at FULL VALUE.

We just tallied quotas of minor parties that were good enough to be placed ahead of #majorParties and Greens.

The quota was exceeded in EVERY state!

So if everyone who voted for quality #minorParties numbered as many quality parties as they could, we'd have 12 #independent minorParty #Senate member in parliment.

Your preferences matter!

#auspol

Talking about an #election in #Australia to imply the existence of a functional #democracy.

Our favourite part is counting the number of #minorParty websites mysteriously going through #CloudFlare and other #technoFascist services.

#algorithmicCampaigning #pr #fauxDemocracy #electionMedding #foreignInterference #moneyPrinterGoDrr #minorParties

Most #Australians remember the frenzied cacophony of #legacyMedia hacks that emerged from the election of Ricky Muir.

So-called "progressive" outlets lampooned our democratic process that ensured votes for #minorParties were never wasted (unlike in the #USA). A process that enabled people like the once-relevant #NickXenophon to get elected.

They #engineeredConsent to change our #votingSystem, at every opportunity demonising the workingClass senator.

Maybe if he called himself 'Richard'???

WARNING: #Elections in #SouthAustralia rigged against #minorParties.

They've had 4 yrs to fix this. Noone at the #ElectoralCommision (#ECSA) has fixed #misleading instructions that caused 70,000 #votes for minorParties to be binned.

If you vote for a #minorParty you *must* number as many above-the-line as possible. Following their top instruction and numbering one party, means your vote is #wasted if that party doesn't get in.

Govts in #Australia quietly abolished #PartyPreferences #post2016.

@jiaming
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Remembering when our land title registries were not leased out to banksters for 99 years (pre 2017).

Remembering when we could easily vote for a minor party because all parties needed to disclose a full voting preferences, and #minorParties were not served by dotCon artists.

For many pushed into #highrise, remember #backyards to grow and eat food, play, practice, restore.

@arh
Does #Iran have minor parties?

Even if they don't have #minorParties, they are still doing better than the USA the USA don't really do minor parties, and they have 330 million people and military bases #sharted across the globe, so…

(We meant #scattered but #autocorrect has greater poetic license than us apparently.)

#legitimacy #colonialism #empire
@lauteshirn

@human_dude
Good thought. Keep in mind that producers in the #corporateMedia in #Australia are known to pull (read:#censor) #commercials and #messages of #minorParties, citing "#QualityConcerns"

#Murdoch #reporters have been completely #corrupted by #bigRealEstate, #mining, #insurance interests, who buy a lot of #advertising due to #artificiallyInflated #assetPrices.

Building an #alternativeMedia is important.

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