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Australian election 2022: from anti-vaxxers to revolutionaries, what do the minor parties running for the Senate stand for?

May 16, 2022 View Original Article
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    -56% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    56% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -30% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : United Australia Party (UAP) also want to increase the age pension, enact more generous rules for mining and freeze fuel excises.
52% :Running in: all states and territoriesRunning on a similar "revolutionary" platform to the national Socialist Alliance - including scrapping the GST and increasing taxation on the rich and corporations, lifting welfare payments to at least $1,500 a fortnight and nationalising the banks - the party also calls for governments to pursue a long-term Covid elimination strategy.
52% : Running in: VictoriaA "centre-based" party, it spruiks policies focused on WA, including basing more federal government workers and public spending in the state.
49% : SAP wants free university for all, a ban on all new coal mines and fracking, a ban on further foreign ownership, a national job guarantee program for full employment and a universal age pension.
44% : Looking to hold Pauline Hanson's Senate seat in Queensland, One Nation wants to remove Australia from the United Nations Refugee Convention and Paris climate agreement, boost government subsidies to apprentices, block sale of property to non-citizens, and place further restrictions on abortion.
39% : GAP backs "mandatory" jail for violent crimes and boot camps for juvenile offenders, would relax firearm laws, has policies for a "concealed carry licence", and would abolish income tax and remove compulsory superannuation.
35% : It also says the settled scientific view that carbon dioxide is contributing to climate change needs "further scrutiny", opposes euthanasia, and wants to restrict IVF to married couples.

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