I don’t have time to read all of this!
The Basics
Website: https://www.justiceparty.com.au/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/justiceparty.com.au/
Themes: Tougher sentencing! No bail for violent criminals! Tougher parole laws! And be nicer to animals.
With friends like these…
The Group Voting Ticket
Hinch’s favourite parties seem to be the Aussie Battlers, Transport Matters and Sustainable Australia. From memory, Sustainable Australia is as hard to get a read on as the Battlers, so this indicates a preference for the highly confused… Hudson, the Liberal Democrats and the Animal Justice Party also appear several times in his top five. In Eastern Victoria he puts Michael Fozard high on his ballot, and in South Eastern Metropolitan he puts Chawla’s team second and all the ungrouped independents towards the top of his ballot.
The bottom of his ballot is always the Greens, with Liberal and Labor directly above, often alternating candidates (sometimes Liberal first, sometimes Labor first). The Australian Liberty Alliance is always fourth last and the Victorian Socialists always fifth from the bottom. The only exception to this rule is in South Eastern Metropolitan, where he clearly has Feelings about the Transport Matters candidates. Ali Khan is ranked 16; Sharma Chetan and Roona Fazal are at 27 and 28; but Inderpal Singh and Deepakbir Kaur are at 52 and 53 – below even the Greens! I would love to know what they have done to offend Derryn, but alas, a quick Google tells me nothing.
The main trends I see here is that Hinch really doesn’t like the major parties, but he has a soft spot for independents. He tends to favour the more confused and woo-filled minor parties over either the lunar left or rabid right parties, suggesting a centrist leaning. And putting Chawla and Lee at second on his ticket suggests that stopping family violence is a priority for him.
The Body Politic
Policies, Snark, Terrible Theme Songs and Other Observations
