#micro parties

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Reviews (Victoria 2022): My Cheat Sheet to the Parties

There are plenty of parties contesting this year’s Victorian state election—indeed, the number of candidates is a state record. Interestingly, this has been achieved despite the fact that about a third of the parties who contested the 2018 election are no longer registered. Ballots will feature a bumper crop of cookers and other assorted micro-parties.

Here is my cheat sheet to summarise the recommendations in my reviews. I write from a left-wing perspective sympathetic to democratic socialism and green politics, and readers of this blog will have noticed that at the end of each entry I give a loose recommendation of what sort of preference I would give to that party. Here are almost all* of this election's parties categorised according to how good a preference I think they deserve. If you have even halfway similar political perspectives to me, I hope this might be useful.

*I do not review Labor, Liberal/National, Greens, or One Nation, on the principle that most people reading this blog have already formed views on those parties.

Before I begin, please remember to vote below the line for the Legislative Council (the larger ballot). If you vote above the line, your vote will be sent on a strange and discomfiting journey through the list of preferences registered by the party for which you vote 1. These preferences are typically determined by backroom deals and never reflect how voters would vote if they had control over preferences.

If you put any numbers other than 1 above the line, they will be ignored. THIS IS OPPOSITE TO THE SENATE SYSTEM: at the federal election in May, you could give preferences above the line and they were respected, but for state elections Victoria uses anti-democratic Group Ticket Voting (the only state to still use this loathsome system) and any preferences you mark beyond 1 will be ignored. The only way to ensure your preferences go exactly where you want them to go is to vote below the line. To cast a valid vote below the line, you must distribute at least 5 preferences, numbering 1–5. You can number as far as you want—and the more you number, the stronger your vote will be.

So, here is how I would categorise the parties. The links below lead to my reviews of each party.

Good preference: a party with a positive overall platform that has few or no significant flaws for the left-wing voter.

Fiona Patten’s Reason Party (left-wing civil libertarian)

Fusion: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency (centre-left pragmatist; unregistered party endorsing three independents)

Indigenous–Aboriginal Party of Australia (Indigenous rights; unregistered party endorsing three independents)

Socialist Alliance (socialism; unregistered party endorsing four independents)

Victorian Socialists (socialism)

Decent preference: a single-issue party with a good objective but by definition too limited in their scope to encompass the fullness of parliamentary business.

Legalise Cannabis Victoria (single issue: blaze it)

Middling to decent: a party with a generally positive overall platform but some significant reservations

Animal Justice Party (animal rights)

Transport Matters Party (centre-left taxi industry front)

Weak to middling preference: problematic, but not as bad as what is below

Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (tough-on-crime centrism)

New Democrats (centre-right)

Weak or no preference: a party with more negatives than positives. In the Legislative Assembly, you must number all squares, and these parties should receive as bad a preference as possible. In the Legislative Council, you should vote below the line and either give this party a poor preference or let your vote exhaust before reaching it. I recommend preferencing fully to maximise the power of your vote, but you may wish to stop rather than express preferences between varying gradations of undesirability.

Angry Victorians Party (covid conspiracists)

Australia One (unregistered covid conspiracists endorsing six independents)

Companions and Pets Party (animal breeding and racing industry front)

Democratic Labour Party (Catholic conservatism)

Family First Victoria (Protestant extreme right)

Freedom Party of Victoria (covid conspiracists)

Health Australia Party (anti-vaxxers who were anti-vax before covid made it the trendy thing for conspiracists)

Independent candidates for the Legislative Council

Liberal Democratic Party (far-right libertarians)

Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews (personal grudge and/or preference-harvesting front)

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (anti-environmentalist gun nuts)

Sustainable Australia—Stop Overdevelopment/Corruption (anti-immigration NIMBYs)

United Australia Party (covid grievance-mongers floating in a policy-free zone)

Not categorised: general entry for a spectrum of candidates

Independent candidates in the Legislative Assembly

[frownyalfred]

Forever thinking about ghost martha fic. except a/b/o where ghost martha is so worried about her o!grandson jason.

Ohhh, omega Martha Wayne would lecture Jason about EVERYTHING. His nest, his heat supplies, his use of alpha pheromones on patrol.

“That’s your nest?”

Jason flushed, ducking his head before Martha could see. “Don’t sound too excited.”

“That’s three t-shirts and a dish towel!”

“The three pack was on sale at the dollar store,” Jason defended, lip curling. “And I stole that dish towel from Alfred, because you said I needed something scented. Otherwise I would’ve just had the t-shirts!”

“Jason,” Martha said, an omega whine ringing through her words. “Jason, my love. These schmattes aren’t a nest. I almost mistook them for a laundry pile on the way in.”

“I don’t know what you—” Jason cut himself off before he could swear, watching Martha’s nostrils flare. “—want me to do. It’s my heat. My nest. I get to decide if it works. And this works.”

Martha followed him as he sat down heavily in the center of his “nest”, expression softening.

“You need a nice thick blanket,” she said after a moment, as if relenting. “I saw one on sale in the window on 5th yesterday. We’ll go after lunch.”

“We will?” Jason asked, not looking up from his hands. Maybe pre heat was coming on too quickly. He already felt sluggish.

“God willing,” Martha said. She leaned forward, lips twisting as her shoulders hiked back. “In the meantime — get your shoes off that shirt, young man. You weren’t raised in a barn.”

“Just the Narrows,” Jason choked out, grinning. He curled up in the nest, making sure to keep his boots clear of the white fabric.

“Just as I said,” Martha hummed. “Not a barn.”

[decaflondonfog]

day 30/30 of 30 microfics in 30 days

kandreil because i didn’t get to write them together throughout the thirty days before now. a 50 word reminder to self that i can write a microfic whenever i want 🥰 because they’re fun 🥰 and i like them 🥰

KANDREIL • PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

[yonezawacastle]

She remembers two colors from that first winter in Oshu.

One is the endless expanse of white that veiled the fields and mountains for months on end.

The other is the crimson blush that stained Masamune's cheeks when he first asked her to share the warmth of his own bed.

[au-mashup-party]

To: hacker!505

UT sans: hey hacker, are you okay? *He asks him that, then he drinks some eggnog*

UT Sans: I think this eggnog is making me want to kiss fell, even though we don't have lips. *He says to him*

UT Sans: I'm so *hic* drunk... *Hic* *laughing not at hacker, but, with him* HEHEHEHEHE HEHEHEHEHE!!!

UT Sans: please... Don't judge me... Please.... Please... Please... Please... *He looks sad, he then starts bawling his eye sockets out*

UT Sans: I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so so sorry.... I'm sorry.... I didn't mean to.... I'm sorry... I'm very sorry...

@nova2cosmos answer!

Amethyst, Saphir, and Himeros by nova2cosmos

Ruby by @rubytale-chapter2

Micro, Rosey, and Hacker by me

Basic by @susartwork

@parniathedevil ‘s answer!

Okay since there were so many questions I decided to combine them all into one mega question, also, I didn’t color anything to save time which is a relief because I got it done faster!

[goattrain]

just a doll at a tea party <3

[anais-mirliaz]

j'étais tellement prise dans mes fanarts de ff7 que j'ai oublié de rappeler aux gens de Paris & alentours que ce we il y a la conférence Jônetsu à Bourg-La-Reine, et que dimanche spécifiquement il y a une conférence Mars Express où je serai présente !

Il y aura Jérémie Perin (réal), Marion Roussel (chef layout et posing), Anne Raffin (chargée des décors layout), Fanny Bricoteau (superviseure & et design son), Alex Pilot qui était chargé du making off, et moi (simple animatrice 2D, la base), et tout le monde aura sa petite section pour parler du taff sur le film !!

voilà si vous êtes à Paris et que vous avez rien à faire ce week end eh ben lezgooooo

[greenleaf4stuff]

Pretty much did a speed-run of all the stages of new-found-ship-excitement (and all five stages of grief) for Elnor/Hugh (aka Hughnor) after watching Picard season 1 and just wanted to say ‘hi’ to any other shippers or character fans that might be around here! *waves* Love the pairing but also the characters on their own, esp Hugh because he is such a sweetheart.

Anyone wanna chat or vent or whatever, feel free to send me a message.

[batemanofficial]

this is part of a larger point that i don't feel i can make constructively on this website but i think a lot of people need to realize that internet skirmishes between relatively well-to-do white teenagers do not constitute an axis of oppression. i mean this as benignly as possible but some of you need to develop thicker skin

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

hyperfixations are funny cuz sometimes i remember that most people probably can't like. name every rhythm heaven game in order. i can just casually do it. actually most rhythm heaven fans probably could do that we're all kind of unhinged about funni moosic gayme-

[wixterirox]

I think it’s hilarious how antis think Billy could be the only racist character in Hawkins a town midwest in the 80’s

[witchern]

whenever i'm in between jobs, my dad insists on doing a book club type thing with me to keep me occupied, so every week we'll read a couple chapters of the same book and chat about it on the phone. ANYWAY all this to say that we're trying to pick the next book and he sent me some of his options and like any self-respecting suburban dad they are ALL biographies and ww2 books lmao

[yonezawacastle]

Parallel Lines

When they were children, Masamune and Shigezane had often slept peacefully beside each other at Yonezawa, hand in tiny hand, no matter how bitterly they had fought that day.

Kojuro had remembered this fondly, on days when the young men quarreled, and he remembers it now, his mouth tasting of bile, as he pulls them both from the ruins of the castle, their bodies as quiet and close as if they were still young boys dreaming.

[au-mashup-party]

Merry Xmas!!!

Micro by me

Himeros by @nova2cosmos

Blithe by me and nova

CPAU originally by @loverofpiggies

[zahri-melitor]

So reading through various 90s Batccomics means I’ve been enjoying every time Anarky shows up, and by god does Lonnie ever exude some stupol energy.

You ripped that rant straight from Red Flag, young man. You have intense SEP member energy. You have a specific beef with everything SAlt for being your nearest enemy. I predict you’re going to be organising a protest against the pedagogical insult that is marking any moment now.

This child is such a stereotype I’m amazed half his sentences don’t start “solidarity with [since devolved section of the USSR]”. He needs to sneak off to badly photocopy more pamphlets on African starvation due to Western Imperialism on the school photocopiers.

I’m guessing I’m supposed to disagree with his statements? But it’s just so much Babby’s First Political Awakening stuff that I just want to set him up with a student union election campaign and watch him spend half his time yelling insults at the other socialist parties on the SRC, most of which have ridiculous names. Except he’s running around electrocuting people instead.

[undead-potatoes]

[Palpatine voice] UNLIMITED POWER