Phlebas Considered

So the title is a bit of an overstatement. I've not actually been demoted. Since May last year I'd been acting as crew lead while th...

Once again I'm not making it to the monthly book club meeting so I'm putting some thoughts down on the blog instead. This months boo...

Again I won't be able to make the monthly book club I go to so I'm writing down my thoughts on the book instead. This month the book...

So the last of these have all been written on election day after I've voted, and again I'm skipping Labor, the Coalition, and the Gr...

Victorian Socialists are the second socialist party in the mix, and like the Socialist Alliance they appeal to my lefty sensibilities. High...

Trumpet of Patriots is the latest installment in the Clive Palmer political fuckery saga. This time round their main claim to fame is spam ...

The Great Australia Party remains a bunch of sovereign citizen nutters. They are running for a parliament they keep trying to say isn't...

Sustainable Australia Party - Universal Basic Income , or Sustainable Australia Party for short, is a rare instance of a party improving a l...

Socialist Alliance is the probably the most left wing party on the ballot this year, and reading their policies and going "yeah, that ...

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party wants their preferred people to be able to do what they want, and everyone else ought to get out of...

Pauline Hanson's One Nation remains a bastion of right wing conservative culture war nonsense. They still don't have much that appe...

The Libertarian Party continue their pursuit of their ideological purity at the expense of ordinary Australians. They are opposed to any fo...

No real changes in policy in the last few years from Legalise Cannabis Australia and so no real change in my opinion of them. I agree with ...

Katter's Australian Party has one thing that sets it apart from most other parties named after a founder, which is that the party is no...

The Jacqui Lambie Network is another leader-centric party that comes from a senator who left their original party but wanted to stay in pol...

The Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia suffers two issues that I can see. First, they need a better web designer. Second, they fall...

At the start of the year as a way of being a bit more social I joined a book club that was being formed on the Brisbane subreddit. It's ...

Health Environment Accountability Rights Transparency (HEART) have changed their name to somthing with a better acronym than their previous...

Gerard Rennick People First Party is another senator splitting from a major party to form their own party. As the name suggests, the senato...

The Fusion Party , or to use their more unwieldy full name FUSION | Planet Rescue | Whistleblower Protection | Innovation, is a progressive ...

Despite having the same name as a previous party, Family First are not the same party as covered here and here . The old Family First merg...

David Pocock while nominally a party, is an independent who has set up a party just to ensure they can appear above the line on the senate ...

The first of the new parties this time round, Australia's Voice is one of the family of sitting member of parliament leaving the party ...

The Australian Democrats continue to exist as a shadow of their former selves. They have a similar mix of centrist policies to the past, an...

The Australian Citizen's Party has removed a lot of the conspiracy and craziness from the website over the years while keeping the econ...

Australian Christians continue their strong held tradition of wrapping up bigotry in religious freedom while failing to appreciate that the...

I think a challenge with this series this time around is going to be I've done this a lot and the parties aren't changing much elect...

It's been a stressful couple of weeks for me, mostly due to the fine gentleman at one time known as Tropical Cyclone Alfred.  Alfred aft...

 I'm not sure what I want to write about today. There's some stuff going on at work that is causing me some stress, but it's not...

Two weeks ago I did something I haven't done in a while. I went on a date. It was with a woman I'd met through a dating app, and I t...