Living Next Door To Alice [Part 2]

The second half:

**Australian Better Families – concerned about men’s rights, especially in separated families, re access, child support etc. Lead candidate is a woman, though, who talks about grandparents separated from grandchildren: http://www.newsofthearea.com.au/port-stephens-jewell-drury-stands-for-senate-for-australian-better-families-48660


**Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoridation) Party – Not quite a single-issue party, since they are against both compulsory vaccination and fluoridation of drinking water supplies.


**United Australia Party – this is the party being run (at huge expense) by the abominable Clive Palmer. Enough said. Oh, all right – to spell it out, this is purely a pro-very-big business party, and especially pro-Clive Palmer. In the end, pro-Liberals.


**Democratic Labour Party – This is sneaky! They are reusing an old name, but they aren’t the same party as the old DLP. However, their policies are not dissimilar – socially conservative, strongly anti-left-wing, anti-ALP. Their lead candidate is a western Sydney lawyer (male.)

*Climate Action! Immigration Action! Accountable Politicians! – Micro-party, whose driving idea is to replace parliament with direct online voting on legislation. They don't actually have particular policies for climate or immigration.

**Animal Justice Party – not quite a single-issue party; they have some human-related policies as well as animal ones. Obviously they're against the live-export trade, but also against such things as government support to animal-related farming, the sale of animals as pets (apart from rescue animals) and advertising of animal-derived products like cheese.


**VOTEFLUX.ORG/Upgrade Democracy! – rather like Climate Action! etc, this party wants to abolish parliament in favour of direct online voting on all issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7MCxADcrwE


**Science Party – they want science and technology to lead the way for social and economic development, especially with funding for research (space, driverless cars) and infrastructure (energy, transport, a whole new city to be called Turing). Fairly strong on climate change. Lead candidate Andrea Leong is a microbiologist.


**Citizens Electoral Council – oh, boy! This crowd! Very right-wing. They link to the wild (deceased) Lynton LaRouche, US citizen. Conspiracy theories a specialty – which means sometimes they might get something right, but other times they have theories like “The World Wildlife Fund is a front for Prince Philip to bring in world government” – but it gets wilder yet…


**Sustainable Australia – by sustainable, they include economically environmentally and demographically – they think of themselves as neither right- nor left-wing. They are against a "big Australia" and want reduce immigration, but keep current refugee levels.


**Australian Democrats – the remnants of Don Chipp’s centrist ("keep the bastards honest") party. Policies are middle of the road, and a bit vague in places - very much on the one hand this, but on the other hand that - e.g."strong opposition to any persecution or prejudice... based on race, religion, sexuality or ability" but "stands against any affirmative action bias on the same basis".


**Small Business Party – Not exactly a single issue party, but policies just for a single group – cutting tax, cutting regulations, as far as this will benefit small business. Also advocates (temporarily?) cutting immigration especially to Sydney, on the grounds that there is currently a lack of infrastructure to cope.