I don’t have time to read all of this!
The Basics
Website: https://www.victoriansocialists.org.au
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vicsocialists/
Themes: Socialism. Workers. People before Corporations. Unions. Equality. The environment. The evils of capitalism.
With friends like these…
The Group Voting Ticket
The group voting tickets of Australia’s various Socialist parties are always such a reliable barometer of left to right politics, and the Victorian Socalists are no exception. At the top of our ticket, we always have the Greens, the Animal Justice Party, Labor, Fiona Patten’s Reason Party and the Voluntary Euthanasia Party. The order various slightly, but the Greens are almost always first, and the VEP are always fifth, with the others in between.
At the foot of the ticket, we have the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers, the Australian Country Party, and the Australian Liberty Alliance. All the independents, grouped or otherwise, are dumped wholesale at the bottom of the ticket – the Socialists were clearly too busy preparing for the revolution to read up on them.
I’m interested to note that the Socialists seem to share my suspicions about the Australian Country Party, putting them even lower than the LDP and the DLP. Incidentally, I’m pretty sure this one is a real ticket and not a Druery special – it’s pretty consistent across the board, and matches what I expect from the Socialists.
The Body Politic
Policies, Snark, Terrible Theme Songs and Other Observations
