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

[greenglowgrrl]

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.

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[tcpip]

The Socialist Equality Party are a Trotskyite group that believes that the assassination of Trotsky was due to a conspiracy between the Soviet Union, the United States, and the leadership of Trotsky's own Fourth International (hence one of the many splits from that body). They are also completely opposed to radicals working with social democrats ("Pabloite revisionists!") and split their preferences equally between the Greens, the ALP, and the LNP.

On a completely different tangent, happy birthday :)