I don’t have time to read all of this!
The Basics
Website: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/vic
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VoteSustainable/
Themes: Overpopulation, sustainability, the environment, jobs, anti-immigration.
With friends like these…
The Group Voting Ticket
This is another confusing ticket, probably brought to you by Glenn Druery. The top of the ticket favours the Battlers, Transport Australia and Hinch’s Justice Party, but there are a lot of frequent flyers here, and about all you can say for it is that at least the Australian Liberty Alliance is never in the top five.
The foot of their ticket is always reserved for the three major parties, followed by the Victorian Socialists and the Democratic Labour Party. Of the three majors, Labor and the Greens alternate in first place, and Liberal is always last. Where there are ungrouped independents, these are always last of all.
I will note that on both their website and their Facebook they are encouraging their voters to direct their own preferences, and advocate an end to group voting tickets, so it will be interesting to see how many of their voters actually do vote above the line. I have to say, while I have always enjoyed using group voting tickets to get an insight into voting blocs, this time round, it’s been less than useful, so I am sadly inclined to agree with them. (Thanks, Glenn Druery, for ruining my fun. Don’t you understand that the best part of above the line voting is playing Upper House Roulette? Rigging the wheel is just not fair…)
Of course, they then say of their own ticket that because of the way the major parties game the system, they need to game it too, in order to ensure fairness:
We need to end ‘business as usual’ major party politics, even if it means some less than ideal minor parties are preferenced before the major parties.
So there’s that.
The Body Politic
Policies, Snark, Terrible Theme Songs and Other Observations
