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b_auspolHealth Environment Accountability Rights Transparency (HEART)
Website: https://heartparty.com.au/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HEARTParty_AU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartparty.aus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartparty.aus/
(My review for the 2021 WA Election)
HEART is the resurrected Informed Medical Options Party aka the Involuntary Medical Objectors Party. A perennial antivax party in Australia (though they’ll protest they’re not really antivaxxers! They’re just asking questions!) they were in fact deregistered prior to the 2025 election, only through multiple appeals finally managed to pass the 1,500 member test and be restored as a registered party. In the process of all of this they’ve again changed their name to obscure their background.
They are of course home to every vaccine and COVID conspiracy theory you can name.
Party Analysis
HEART are not only antivaxxers, they’re proponents of alternative medicine and a lot of holistic woo. They talk about health being about having a ‘strong immune system’ from diet and organic food and small scale agriculture, and they’re anti GMOs. They’re scared of ‘toxins’ and think fluoridation is bad and should be removed from the water supply. They’re fluffy hippies that don’t believe in scientifically based medical care. Also they want the freedom for medical professions to prescribe unregulated substances to their patients, without their organising bodies asking things like “does this treatment work?” or “is this in the best interest of the patient?” or “why are you giving this patient a medical treatment that is proven to be ineffective or actively harmful?”, and for alternative and complementary therapies to be covered by the public health system (despite largely been unproven to be effective).
Similarly, HEART are into organic and biodynamic farming, and deeply suspicious of commercial farming. They want “clean, economical, efficient and environmentally sound” energy production in Australia…but then go on to say they are suspicious of the potential environmental effects of renewable energy sources. They’re also at least mildly suspicious of climate change: there’s a call for listening to “all academic perspectives” when evaluating climate change (which they put in quotes). Which reads to me as they’re also cranks or at least have some significantly minority views in this area.
They want a Royal Commission into COVID, because they’re convinced that the Australian government destroyed people’s freedoms via lockdowns and vaccine mandates. They’re still extremely extremely mad about lockdowns and vaccine passports for travel during COVID. They want a Royal Commission into vaccine injuries (because they’re convinced there’s an epidemic of them). They also want us out of the WHO and UN.
HEART are scared for some reason that Australia will implement the social credit system used in China, which seems deeply unlikely to me. They also want a Bill of Rights with a mix of common rights (freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, right to privacy) but also a whole bunch of conspiracy driven nonsense like “the right to use cash for any transaction” and “the right to medical freedom” (this is code for alternative medicine).
HEART want the right for parents to opt their children out of receiving lifesaving medical treatment like vaccinations and cancer treatment, and for the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia to no longer be able to override their wishes to get children treatment, and to find for the parent who actually wants to get their kid medical treatment in debates over medical decisions in divorced and separated families. They are so very very mad that other people who have legitimate and court-appointed care of children are allowed to get those children vaccinated.
HEART are also anti-abortion, but phrasing it in the “nobody should be forced to terminate a pregnancy! Give them lots and lots and lots and lots of information until they choose not to!” way.
Also, the party is convinced that 5G is harmful on people, the environment and animals and they want studies to prove it!
Is this party trying to kill me?
This is the prime party of antivaxxers. They really really hate vaccination, and they also don’t want their kids who have cancer being able to access radiotherapy or chemotherapy. So yes, they’re trying to kill people.
Is this party trying to harm me?
Absolutely. Anti-vaccination campaigns lower herd immunity which increases the prevalence of transmissible diseases in the community, leading to people getting more sick more often.
Conclusion:
HEART are a party who are very interested in just asking questions, and who want a lot of funding to study the dangers of things that have already been extensively proven to be safe and effective. They’re the dangerous face of the sort of hippie, back-to-the-land, nature helps and heals us community that is deeply suspicious of government interference and of things that they don’t define as ‘natural’.
Website: https://heartparty.com.au/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HEARTParty_AU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartparty.aus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartparty.aus/
(My review for the 2021 WA Election)
HEART is the resurrected Informed Medical Options Party aka the Involuntary Medical Objectors Party. A perennial antivax party in Australia (though they’ll protest they’re not really antivaxxers! They’re just asking questions!) they were in fact deregistered prior to the 2025 election, only through multiple appeals finally managed to pass the 1,500 member test and be restored as a registered party. In the process of all of this they’ve again changed their name to obscure their background.
They are of course home to every vaccine and COVID conspiracy theory you can name.
Party Analysis
HEART are not only antivaxxers, they’re proponents of alternative medicine and a lot of holistic woo. They talk about health being about having a ‘strong immune system’ from diet and organic food and small scale agriculture, and they’re anti GMOs. They’re scared of ‘toxins’ and think fluoridation is bad and should be removed from the water supply. They’re fluffy hippies that don’t believe in scientifically based medical care. Also they want the freedom for medical professions to prescribe unregulated substances to their patients, without their organising bodies asking things like “does this treatment work?” or “is this in the best interest of the patient?” or “why are you giving this patient a medical treatment that is proven to be ineffective or actively harmful?”, and for alternative and complementary therapies to be covered by the public health system (despite largely been unproven to be effective).
Similarly, HEART are into organic and biodynamic farming, and deeply suspicious of commercial farming. They want “clean, economical, efficient and environmentally sound” energy production in Australia…but then go on to say they are suspicious of the potential environmental effects of renewable energy sources. They’re also at least mildly suspicious of climate change: there’s a call for listening to “all academic perspectives” when evaluating climate change (which they put in quotes). Which reads to me as they’re also cranks or at least have some significantly minority views in this area.
They want a Royal Commission into COVID, because they’re convinced that the Australian government destroyed people’s freedoms via lockdowns and vaccine mandates. They’re still extremely extremely mad about lockdowns and vaccine passports for travel during COVID. They want a Royal Commission into vaccine injuries (because they’re convinced there’s an epidemic of them). They also want us out of the WHO and UN.
HEART are scared for some reason that Australia will implement the social credit system used in China, which seems deeply unlikely to me. They also want a Bill of Rights with a mix of common rights (freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, right to privacy) but also a whole bunch of conspiracy driven nonsense like “the right to use cash for any transaction” and “the right to medical freedom” (this is code for alternative medicine).
HEART want the right for parents to opt their children out of receiving lifesaving medical treatment like vaccinations and cancer treatment, and for the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia to no longer be able to override their wishes to get children treatment, and to find for the parent who actually wants to get their kid medical treatment in debates over medical decisions in divorced and separated families. They are so very very mad that other people who have legitimate and court-appointed care of children are allowed to get those children vaccinated.
HEART are also anti-abortion, but phrasing it in the “nobody should be forced to terminate a pregnancy! Give them lots and lots and lots and lots of information until they choose not to!” way.
Also, the party is convinced that 5G is harmful on people, the environment and animals and they want studies to prove it!
Is this party trying to kill me?
This is the prime party of antivaxxers. They really really hate vaccination, and they also don’t want their kids who have cancer being able to access radiotherapy or chemotherapy. So yes, they’re trying to kill people.
Is this party trying to harm me?
Absolutely. Anti-vaccination campaigns lower herd immunity which increases the prevalence of transmissible diseases in the community, leading to people getting more sick more often.
Conclusion:
HEART are a party who are very interested in just asking questions, and who want a lot of funding to study the dangers of things that have already been extensively proven to be safe and effective. They’re the dangerous face of the sort of hippie, back-to-the-land, nature helps and heals us community that is deeply suspicious of government interference and of things that they don’t define as ‘natural’.
