By Denis Hay
Federal Election 2025: Be an Informed and Strategic Voter
🗓 Election Date: Saturday, 3 May 2025
🗓 Candidate Nominations Have Closed
📝 At-a-Glance Summary: Your 60-Second Voter Checklist
✔️ When is the election?
🗳️ Saturday, 3 May 2025
✔️ How should I vote?
Use preferential voting – vote below the line in the House of Representative and Senate for complete control of preferences.
✔️ Why does this election matter?
It’s your chance to:
• Push back against corporate influence.
• Elect candidates who support public health, housing, climate action, and peace.
• Support economic policies rooted in Australia’s currency sovereignty.
✔️ What can I do right now?
• Research candidates via TheyVoteForYou.org.au and the AEC.
• Compare policies on housing, healthcare, climate, and transparency.
• Share this guide and talk to your community about the issues.
✔️ What should I look for in a candidate?
✅ Free public hospitals and schools
✅ Investment in public housing and rent caps
✅ Funded climate policy
✅ Anti-militarism and peace-focused foreign policy
✅ Use of public money for the public good
✔️ Not sure whom to vote for?
Use the Candidate Comparison Chart and Candidate Quiz to help make your decision.
✔️ Want change?
Support independents and minor parties that align with your values. Your vote is powerful.
🟢 Let’s create a more just Australia – together.
1. ✅ Why This Election Matters
Australia’s political system is deeply compromised by corporate interests and a lack of transparency. Real change can only occur if voters engage strategically. This election is a powerful opportunity to support candidates who prioritise:
• Social justice
• Environmental sustainability
• Public well-being
• Peace
• Economic policies based on Australia’s currency sovereignty.
Learn more:
• Australia’s Currency Sovereignty
• Creating Money Out of Thin Air (Video)
2. 🔧 What You Can Do Now
1. Share on Facebook
Raise awareness in groups and MP pages:
o How to share without a share button
o List of MPs and their Facebook pages
o Additional sharing groups
2. Share Website Articles
Social Justice Australia Articles
3. Check How Your MP Voted
Visit TheyVoteForYou.org.au to see your MP’s record.
4. 🗳 How to Vote Wisely in the 2025 Federal Election
Learn how to vote smart in 2025. Explore key issues like housing, climate, healthcare, and how to research your candidates.
1. Top Voter Concerns in 2025
• Cost of Living: Wages lag behind food, fuel, and energy costs.
• Housing: Affordability is worsening; public housing is in crisis.
• Climate Emergency: Both major parties fall short on action.
• Healthcare: Public hospitals need full funding and resources.
• Asylum Seekers: Labor upholds harsh offshore detention.
• Foreign Military Presence: Hosting U.S. bases makes Australia a target.
2. Researching Your Candidates
- Sitting Members: Parliament Voting Records
- New Candidates: Australian Electoral Commission
- Dig Deeper: Review their policies and positions on climate, public services, refugees, and currency sovereignty.
3. What to Look For
• Free, fully funded public education and healthcare.
• Rent caps and investment in public housing.
• Funded, ambitious climate action.
• Peace-focused foreign policy.
• Public money is used for the common good.
4. 🔍 New Voter Resources to Make Informed Choices
• Candidate Comparison Charts
• Candidate Quiz
• Voter Checklist
• Ask Candidates Direct Questions
• Accessibility & Early Voting Info
• Post-Election Accountability
• Engage on Social Media
✅Candidate Comparison Charts
Create or link to a side-by-side table showing where candidates stand on:
• Housing, climate, education, public health, militarism, and transparency
✅1. Candidate Comparison Chart Template
You can populate this chart (on Social Justice Australia) with data from your own electorate or use it as a template on your website for each seat.
✅ Voter Matching Tools
• Vote Compass: Aligns your views with party platforms.
• Candidate Quiz Below: Helps you find candidates who reflect your priorities.
🧠 “Which Candidate Aligns with You?” Quiz
This simple yes/no/maybe/quiz matches voters with a candidate or party.
Instructions for Users:
Answer each question with “Yes,” “No,” or “Maybe.” Tally your scores at the end to see which candidates or parties most align with your values.
Question: Yes, Maybe, No
• Do you support free, fully funded public hospitals and education?
• Should the government invest in large-scale public housing programs?
• Is ambitious, fully funded climate action a priority for you?
• Should Australia avoid foreign military entanglements (e.g. AUKUS)?
• Do you want asylum seekers treated with dignity and compassion?
• Should politicians be accountable to voters, not donors?
• Do you support using Australia’s currency sovereignty to serve society?
• Do you oppose using public money to fund fossil fuel industries?
Scoring Guide
Mostly Yes: You align best with progressive or independent candidates (e.g. Greens, Teals, Socialists, some Independents).
Mostly Maybe: You may need to explore more and check candidate records. Consider community independents.
Mostly No: You may align with conservative or corporate-aligned parties.
✅ Voter Checklist
• Confirm your voter registration.
• Research candidates in your electorate.
• Watch debates or attend local forums.
• Understand how to vote strategically (below-the-line voting).
• Discuss key issues with friends and family.
✅ Local Forums and Community Events
Encourage voters to attend candidate town halls or local events to ask direct questions.
✅ Ask the Candidate’s Direct Questions
Prompt voters to ask:
• “Will you support fully funded public healthcare?”
• “Do you support rent controls and public housing?”
• “Will you invest in climate solutions over military build-up?”
✅ Voter Rights & Accessibility
• How to access postal voting, early voting, and help for those with disabilities.
• Information for voters in remote or rural areas
✅ What If You’re Disillusioned?
Even if you don’t support major parties, you can still:
• Vote for independents or micro-parties aligned with your values.
• Stay involved in grassroots organising and advocacy.
✅ Post-Election Accountability
• Monitor your elected MP’s actions.
• Sign up for updates and follow their voting records.
• Continue advocating for people-first policies.
✅ Engage on Social Media
• Follow candidates and parties.
• Share reliable resources and voter guides.
• Use hashtags to join the conversation: #AusPol2025 #VoteWisely
5. 🧠 Learn to Vote Effectively
• Preferential voting gives you control – vote below the line in the House of Representatives and Senate.
✅Resources for Understanding Preferential Voting:
- Voting Tips Video
- Chickennation Voting Guide
- Strategic Voting Folder
• Use Policy Tracker to compare issues.
• Examine candidates’ Facebook pages and alliances.
6. 🗳️ Prepare Your Ballot
• Senate (Upper House): ClueyVoter.com
• House of Representatives and Senate for Your State, where you can prepare your own sample voting cards to take with you to the polling both: VoteEasy.com.au
7. 🟢 Progressive Parties Worth Considering
These parties support social justice, climate action, and currency sovereignty:
⚠️ Citizens Party: Strong on sovereignty but denies climate change — proceed cautiously. Watch: Who’s Afraid of Minority Government?
8. 👥 Worthwhile Independents to Watch
• Teal Independents (View Candidates)
There could be other worthwhile political parties and candidates in your electorate. Research them thoroughly before giving them your valuable vote.
9. 📝 Hold Candidates Accountable
Ask candidates to sign a Commonwealth Statutory Declaration. If they decline, ask why — it’s your right to know.
10. 📉 Coalition Government Track Record
Over 900 instances of mismanagement and corruption:
https://newpolitics.com.au/2020/02/20/a-short-history-of-corruption/
https://www.mdavis.xyz/govlist/
The Guardian: Detention contractor scandal
LNP perfected the art of pork-barrelling and dishonesty over a decade.
11. 📣 Raise These Key Issues
• Australia’s complicity in U.S.-led wars
• AUKUS and militarism
• Fossil fuel subsidies
• Housing crisis and lack of public housing
• Asylum seeker treatment
• National Anti-Corruption Commission limitations
12. ✅ Final Message & Call to Action
Don’t waste your vote or vote informally. Make it count by supporting candidates who serve the public, not powerful interests.
Be informed. Be empowered. Vote for justice.
🔗 Visit Social Justice Australia
📣 Share this guide and encourage others to do the same.
📢 Hashtags: #AusPol2025, #VoteWisely, #SocialJustice, #PublicHospitals, #HousingCrisis, #ClimateAction, #MMTAustralia, #HealthcareForAll, #TealIndependents, #Election2025
This article was originally published on Social Justice Australia.
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Careful what you wish for, one point, on 7. and ‘progressive’ parties, Sustainable Australian Party is not progressive, but a far right astroturf greenwashing eugenics, immigration restrictions, population control and ‘the great replacement’.
Linked to SPA Sustainable Population Australian, based on a local outlet of the US Rockefeller Bros. (Exxon) ’70s ZPG Zero Population Growth with Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’, now known in the US as Tanton Network.
Latter is based on Ehrlich ZPG colleague and peer, the deceased white nationalist John ‘passive eugenics’ Tanton, described by Reagan staffer Linda Chavez in NYT as ‘the most influential unknown man in America’ and by SPLC as ‘the racist architect of the modern anti-immigration movement’.
Tanton admired the white Australia policy, visited in late ’80s or ’90s and was hosted by Sustainable Population Australia’s then head (which is acknowledged); preceded by Ehrlich who lived Sydney late ’60s in the twilight of the white Australia policy.
SPA works with TAPRI The Australian Population Research Institute which informs SkyNews After Dark, NewsCorp, far right MacroBusiness, RW FIRE MSM and our political elites, bipartisan (US Dems & UK Labour avoid Tanton’s mob).
In US Tanton Network shares donors with fossil fuel Koch Network, informs FoxNews editorial, RW MSM, alt right and Trump’s MAGA GOP, manifested in Steve ‘great replacement’ Bannon, Border Czar Homan, Stephen Miller et al and Project 2025.
Not only do they have influence on media and politics, their dog whistling on demography (using Koch climate science denial tactics & ‘jazzed up stats’) gives a psychological floor to house market by faux demand, ie. mislabelling international students as ‘immigrants’, but then also suggested to be a cost on the nation eg. rents, employment, infrastructure etc. (without any evidence).
Related, since Howard’s rise, is how any policy initiatives on climate, environment and renewables can be so easily stymied by greenwashed dog whistles for a ‘sustainable population’; we lazily blame immigrants, but neither US fossil fuel subisidiaries nor policy makers?
One is also a bit sceptical of Australia’s Voice due to some names, including a faux anti-imperialist tankie of the left promoted in indie media, opposed to Ukraine and Europe, but nada on Putin and Trump?
Do you homework on preferencing to make sure the multitude of micro parties in or around QLD and regions are valid; some may appear centrist, but preferences could advantage LNP or far worse, and far right….
Hi Andrew, this comment contains some misleading and unsubstantiated claims. Here’s a breakdown based on publicly available policy and positioning of the Sustainable Australia Party (SAP):
✅ What’s True or Partially Accurate:
1. Immigration and Population Focus:
o SAP strongly advocates for reduced immigration levels, citing sustainability and urban congestion.
o This stance has drawn criticism from progressive groups, who argue that it can echo far-right talking points.
Environmental Branding (“Greenwashing”):
o SAP brands itself as environmentally focused, but some critics argue this serves to make their immigration stance more palatable to progressive audiences.
o Their climate policy is less ambitious than those of the Greens or Socialist Alliance, which leads to accusations of “greenwashing.”
❌ What’s Misleading or Unfounded:
1. Far-Right Allegation:
o SAP is not affiliated with far-right movements or white nationalist groups. It positions itself as centrist.
o No official SAP materials support the “The Great Replacement” theory claims.
Eugenics Accusation:
o There is no evidence that SAP supports or advocates for eugenics.
🟢 Balanced Assessment:
• SAP is not a progressive party in the traditional sense (e.g., social justice, pro-diversity, or redistributive economic policies).
• It sits more in the centrist-to-conservative environmentalist niche, similar to “eco-nationalist” movements in some European countries.
• Including them in lists of progressive parties may be misleading unless clarified.
✅ Suggested Replacement Text for Your Guide:
⚠️ Note: Sustainable Australia Party promotes environmental sustainability but holds restrictive views on immigration that may not align with broader progressive or social justice values.
Sorry, but a few links are not showing in the article. Here are the links now:
Raise awareness in groups and MP pages:
How to share without a share button: https://youtu.be/6g4APNZLXC4
List of MPs and their Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378405463586935/permalink/55139386962142
Additional sharing groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378405463586935/permalink/55139530962128
I know who they are and ignore their public statements, can be nasty and aggressive. One has tracked them since noughties when they were misrepresenting immigration and population data, clearly connected to John Tanton who believed in white minority rule.
For example Tanton’s Brit friends included Tucker Carlson and white nationalist Peter Brimelow who was reporting directly to Fox News proprietors, as explained by Gertz in Media Matters US ’22 ‘If you are in business with Fox News you are on the hook for its white nationalism’.
For the latest US media reporting on Tanton and familiar talking points, see ProPublica’s (October 2024) ‘Environment: The Ghosts of John Tanton
Reporting Highlights
Tanton’s Network: Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation, brace for climate change and preserve “European” culture.
Green Hate: Now climate change is amplifying environmental concerns that have always run through the white supremacy and the anti-immigration movements.
Eco-Fascism: Experts warn that extremists who seize on global warming to justify violence are part of a far right trend to reclaim environmentalism as their own.’
https://www.propublica.org/article/john-tanton-far-right-extremism-environmentalism-climate-change