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greenglowgrrl in brisneyland

Who ARE these parties? (And can we meet their candidate on Tuesday?)

Aug 25, 2013 14:57

Last federal election, I was on a mission to find out who the obscure people were on my senate ballot so my vote could be more informed. It's more difficult and expensive to appear on ballot papers at this year's federal election, so there are no ungrouped candidates, and only two lots of independents, but there are more parties than ever before. ( Read more... )

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onlywords August 25 2013, 11:34:16 UTC

This is fantastic. Thank you.

greenglowgrrl August 25 2013, 18:20:36 UTC

You're welcome. I hit post when I meant edit, so had to wait for it to come out of the moderators queue to fix all the broken links to the wiki entries. The best source of links to party websites is definitely through the belowtheline organiser. When you google, you often hit the wrong democrat's page, for instance. Although, its worth doing that too, when site searching your favorite issue turns up blank.

I used all three organisers, because I'm dyslexic and numbers easily confuse me. Research and comparison is easier through belowtheline. (Or tweaking a favorite parties ballot to your liking.) Cluey has a good first sort, but senate.io is easier to shuffle into your final preferred order.

And I've added the Getup event to meet the pollies, that I only found out about later.

inpotentia August 26 2013, 10:00:11 UTC

Thank you!

This will help me to vote informed.

lastrega August 26 2013, 12:45:01 UTC

Vote Pirate! We have awesome evidence-based policies.

greenglowgrrl August 26 2013, 21:22:20 UTC

I heartily prefer evidence-based policies to emotive slogans. Unfortunately, it takes so much longer to act from that basis. Even I, a disabled pensioner, don't have time to read everyone's policy in entirety, so I site search keywords ( ... )

greenglowgrrl September 3 2013, 01:37:55 UTC

Good write up from another Victorian. https://catespeaks.wordpress.com/federal-election-2013-index/
Also, New Matilda has been doing a focus. https://newmatilda.com/category/tags/minor-parties

greenglowgrrl September 4 2013, 08:06:27 UTC

Starting with major party comparison. Worth following the links. http://theaimn.com/2013/09/03/your-vote-might-just-be-worth-something-after-all/