Senate candidates 2022

All the senators currently representing Victoria in the federal parliament belong to the Coalition, Labor, or the Greens. However, minor party candidates have ...

Victorian candidate Warren Pickering says he was stood down from his job over the vaccine mandate. They want to defund the ABC and SBS and also flatten the tax rate. Founded by Victorian upper house MP Fiona Patten, they want to decriminalise all drugs, so drug use is treated as a health issue. It also wants to clamp down on foreign investment, expand the live export trade, expand recreational fishing, and expand mining. This group’s focus is the environment, pushing for Australia to cut carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030, as well as establishing a federal integrity commission. Should the Liberal Party fail to gain three Senate quotas, it is likely its preferences will help elect Babet. This group focuses on minimising development and population growth, which they say will protect the environment. The Citizens Party is inspired by the LaRouche movement, an international political and social fringe movement based on the sovereignty of states rather than globalisation. The Socialist Alliance, a smaller party with a similar policy platform, split from the Victorian Socialists in 2020 because of disagreements on how to progress. This is the latest in a long line of groups founded by Vern Hughes. He convenes the Sensible Centre, which has argued that everyone over the age of 70 should be separated from the public during the pandemic. McBride previously contested for the Victorian parliament’s upper house with the Democratic Labour Party, which is not connected to the Labor Party. He was state treasurer of the DLP until 2018. Wrangling the Senate ballot paper this election can be a big ask, with cryptic names for many of the minor parties.