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This has been confirmed today for Saturday, 21 May 2022, which means that yes I won bets with several friends that Morrison would indeed hold out until the last possible day.
My intentions for this election are to review all the parties and independents standing in the NSW Senate. Once that is done, I would like to look at an aggregate position of the parties on a number of issues I care about.
We've seen a massive decrease in the number of parties running in most states this election, with 23 parties in NSW being the lowest in two decades.
My reviews of parties running in NSW:
- Animal Justice Party
- TNL (The New Liberals)
- Australian Citizens Party
- Sustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment/Corruption
- Australian Greens
- Max Boddy (Grouped Independent)
- Liberal Party / National Party
- Reason Australia
- Socialist Alliance
- Federal ICAC Now
- Australian Democrats
- Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia
- Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party
- Seniors United Party of Australia
- Informed Medical Options Party
- The Great Australian Party
- Legalise Cannabis Australia
- FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency
- Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
- Liberal Democratic Party
- Australian Values Party
- Australian Labor Party
- United Australia Party
There are also 5 ungrouped candidates running:
There is a test I use on all electoral parties, to try and distinguish between far too many right wing parties so that I can figure out how to order them on my ballot. It's the "Is this party trying to kill me? Is this party trying to harm me?" test. Sometimes politics can be very personal, and noting that a party’s policies are or will cause direct harm is important to me.
Finally, I want to acknowledge that this election microparty coverage would never be happening if it wasn’t for Catherine of CateSpeaks. She was the person who encouraged me to start writing, whose opinion I valued, and the election will be poorer and harder for the fact she isn’t here to see this one and give her considered opinion on all the parties running.
We all miss you, Catherine. You’d be delighted to know the election isn’t on Eurovision weekend. You won the group pool on correctly predicting the most of which parties would be deregistered after the rule changes. I am sorry I will never get to read your summaries on TNL and your feelings on how the Lib Dems got to keep their name for one more election.
