Liberal Democratic Party (LNP) – registered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in September 2007.
This is a political party which for the purposes of progressing itself is blatantly chasing the “freedoms” vote, with its “Policy One” of eight policies listed being “FREEDOM FROM COVID ALARMISM”. A document not updated since 2021 and redolent with the echo of that motley collection of white supremacist, QAnon, anti-vaccination and other conspiracy theory nutters who rallied and protested during 2020 and 2021.
It is not considered a parliamentary party as it had no elected member as at March-April 2022.
It appears to be standing 16 candidates for Senate positions and 101 candidates for House of Representatives seats.
PAGE candidate: Thomas Searles
The Australian Federation Party (FED) – although this party was first registered by the AEC in 2011, by 2022 it was firmly in the ‘freedoms’ camp of anti-public health measures resistance spawned by that same motley collection of white supremacist, QAnon, anti-vaccination and other conspiracy theory nutters who gave us collective action such as this:
Video from today’s #freedomday protest. Anti-lockdown protesters with police hot on their tails at Elwood Beach. Melbourne. Victoria. #melbournelockdown #WWG1WWGA pic.twitter.com/glMj8YJRi4
— precursor (@occupy_now) September 19, 2020
The party has subsequently dressed up in smart suits and penned fine words, however it remains a largely untested entity.
It is not considered a parliamentary party as it had no elected member as at March-April 2022.
FED is standing 47 candidates at the 21 May federal election – 11 for Senate positions and 38 for House of Representatives seats.
PAGE candidate: Heather Smith
United Australia Party (UAP) – registered by the AEC in 2018. The brain child of rather notorious mining magnate Clive Palmer who as the leader of the Palmer United Party was a rather desultory member of the Australian House of Representatives for one term marked by his absences – retiring prior to the 2016 federal election.
Currently he is standing for a Senate position representing Queensland.
He is using what is alleged to be his personal wealth to run 22 Senate candidates and 151 House of Representative candidates in the 21 May federal election. Although rather oddly, the party’s official list of candidates seems to number 152.
This is a classic disruptor party, out to “Make Australia Great Again” because there is a need for “freedoms” - with at least one notable Trump-QAnon-Antivaxx supporter in its ranks, Craig Kelly.
It is considered a parliamentary party as it had one member as at March-April 2022 - Craig Kelly being elected in 2019 as the Liberal Party MP for Hume but resigning in February 2021 and, moving to the cross benches until joining the UAP in August 2021.
PAGE candidate: Ian Williamson
TNL – register by the AEC in March 2022. Has approximately 1,527 members. It coyly insists on reminding the general public that it was formerly “The New Liberals”, a party formally deregistered on 7 December 2021 in part based on the potential for name confusion with the Liberal Party.
On 13 March 2021 it rather quixotically sought to have the Liberal Party of Australia deregistered.
Presidency and leadership of the party appears to be a family affair.
It is not considered a parliamentary party as it had no elected member as at March-April 2022.
TNL is fielding 19 candidates at the 21 May federal election – 7 for Senate positions and 12 for House of Representatives seats.
PAGE candidate: Serge Killingbeck
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (ONP) – registered by AEC in 2004. A political party with an unashamedly resentful, far right and racist worldview plucked straight from the ugly underbelly of 1950s Australia.
It is a parliamentary party as it had two elected members as at March-April 2022.
One Nation is standing 9 candidates for Senate positions and 69 candidates in the House of Representatives in the 21 May federal election.
PAGE candidate: Donna Pike
National Party of Australia (NSW) (NAT) – registered by the AEC in 1984.
A party which has proudly followed a regressive policy path of cronyism, isolationism, environmental vandalism and what, in practice, has been crude climate change denialism which left Australia vulnerable to the worst climate change impacts.
It was also a party which during the 26 months to date of the global pandemic has been in favour of doing the bare minimum when it came to the public health response and which did not favour lockdowns - with some MPS quietly muttering about individual freedom.
The AEC lists it as a parliamentary party, having 7 NSW MPs out of the 9 National Party elected members in the House of Representatives (the remaining 2 are from Victoria) and 1 NSW Senator out of the 3 Nationals in the Senate (the remaining 2 are from Qld & Vic) as at March-April 2022.
It is fielding 11 NSW candidates - 1 for a Senate position and 8 in the House of Representatives, as Coalition partner to the Liberal Party of Australia.
PAGE candidate: Kevin Hogan
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