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Victorian Senate Group K: Reforming Banks

I have been informed by a friend of mine that I have to like the Bank Reform Party, because said friend has been teaching voice production to one of its founders and candidates, and he thinks that their policies are very sensible.  I actually find it hard to get incredibly excited about banks – I have stated in many, many places that I don’t really understand economics, but it is always mildly interesting to have a connection to a political party.  Especially a really tenuous one, actually.

The Bank Reform Party is “a new, non-aligned political party seeking to reform and increase the competitiveness of the Australian economy.

They are so new that they actually have two websites – the pre-AEC-registration website here, and the official one listed above.  This caused me some concern initially – after all the fun and games during our recent council election with people pretending to be from parties that they were not, I was a bit worried that one of the sites was trolling the other, but they seem to be the same people with the same policies.  Anyway, I’m mentioning this only to note that I am writing up the policies of this party based on the newer of the two websites, so that if it turns out that one of the sites is an elaborate hoax after all, you will know where I got the information from.

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Victorian Senate Group J: Sceptical about Climates, and also, apparently, about Science

From scepticism about religion to scepticism of an entirely different stripe – meet the No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics Party!

This party is the gift that keeps on giving, really. The problem is, there are so many cheap shots that it’s hard to know where to start.  But for the record, I’d just like to state that I, for one, am entirely convinced that we have a climate.  Call me gullible, but there it is.

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Victorian Senate Group I: Let’s get Secular!

So, we’ve seen various shades of Christian Right, a couple of flavours of patriotism ranging from the mildly xenophobic to the outright racist, some libertarians, and, of course, our good friends over in the world of legalised drugs.  Now for something completely different, we have the Secular Party.

I have to admit, this lot make me uncomfortable, which is interesting, because so do all the Christian parties.  The right wing Christians make me wince because they seem to be at their loudest when promoting the most un-loving and un-compassionate policies they have, and I want to keep saying, look, we aren’t all like that.  But the secularists also make me uncomfortable, because while I absolutely do think that religion has no place in government, I find it frustrating when people assume that I must be either stupid or complicit in my own oppression.  (I’m actually not particularly oppressed by my religion, thank you.)  It’s possible that I have been spending too much time reading the words of internet atheists, who seem to be an entirely different breed to the totally lovely atheists I know in real life.

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