Trumpet of Patriots is the latest installment in the Clive Palmer political fuckery saga. This time round their main claim to fame is spam text messages that seem to make them near universally despised and is a factor in me not wearing some of my favoured yellow t-shirts during election season.
You might assume that Trumpet of Patriots is just a rebrand of Palmer's party from the last election, the United Australia Party, but that party was deregistered after the 2022 election and could not be re-registered for this election. So instead Palmer has essentially taken over and rebranded another small party formerly know as the Australian Federation Party.
Trumpet's policies remain the populist nonsense of former iterations, but leans even heavier into trying to ride Donald Trump's coat tails with things like an Australian DOGE (despite how spectacularly horrible that has been in America), although that no longer seems to be a winning strategy (well done Canada by the way).
Policy wise their against all action on climate change (no surprise for a party lead by a mining billionaire), leaving the UN and all other international bodies (forsaking a lot of the soft power Australia has), anti-vaccine mandates, and their cost of living plan is to bring back fossil fuel power stations (even though renewables are generally cheaper these days).
Ultimately Palmer is a Trump wannabe who seems to enjoy throwing his money away in an effort to push Australia in a disastrous direction. Don't give him the satisfaction.
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