{"id":52753,"date":"2025-04-13T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=52753"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:26:20","slug":"left-right-left-right-token-2025-australian-federal-election-effortpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=52753","title":{"rendered":"Left, right, left, right : token 2025 Australian federal election effortpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Might as well, because &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/if.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/if-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-52758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/if-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/if-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/if.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; underneath the big top, it is, election time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TwvHIhK98Cg\" target=\"_blank\">again<\/a>. And, as usual, there&#8217;s no shortage of eggsperts, partisans and pollsters to pay attention to (or to ignore). In any case, I thought I&#8217;d note that there&#8217;s a few points of interest inre (minor) candidates running for a seat.<\/p>\n<p>For socialists, sadly, the Socialist Equality Party failed to qualify for federal registration &#8212; and so cannot run\/jog\/walk under that banner &#8212; but a few are having a crack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2025\/04\/07\/lrex-a07.html\" target=\"_blank\">nonetheless<\/a>. In addition, the Socialist Alliance is running <a href=\"https:\/\/socialist-alliance.org\/elections\/voting-socialist-more-important-ever\" target=\"_blank\">candidates<\/a> in NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, while in VIC the Victorian Socialists are also in <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriansocialists.org.au\/candidates\/federal-election-2025\" target=\"_blank\">the mix<\/a>. Oh, and AFAIK, the ACP, CPA and CPA (ML) are out of the race on May 3 and while the Communist League <a href=\"https:\/\/themilitant.com\/2025\/03\/28\/communist-league-launches-election-campaign-in-australia\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> Robert Aiken as their candidate for the Senate &#8230; ah &#8230; I can find no confirmation of this on the AEC website.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and (Dr) Joe Toscano is running in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pibci.net\/News.html#content6-1o\" target=\"_blank\">Flinders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the (far) right, (Dr) Jim Saleam (Australia First) is Independently losing in Lindsay; PHONy is fielding numerous other bizarr0s; the La Rouchites are running as Citizens and billionaire Clive Palmer is throwing countless millions trumpeting nobodies in a range of seats across Australian real estate. In addition, Great Australian and ex-PHONy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-04-11\/former-one-nation-senator-rod-culleton-referred-to-police-\/105167408\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Culleton<\/a> is running (along with a handful of other Great Ones), while (Senator) Gerard Rennick is hoping to keep his seat in the senate and putting People &#038;\/Or Property First in a range of others (Upper and Lower).<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"https:\/\/kevinbonham.blogspot.com\/2025\/04\/federal-2025-classifying-independents.html\" target=\"_blank\">Federal 2025: Classifying The Independents<\/a>, (Dr) Kevin Bonham, April 13, 2025 \/\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tab.com.au\/sports\/betting\/Politics\/competitions\/Australian%20Federal%20Politics\/matches\/Federal%20Election\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Federal Election Betting Odds<\/a> (TAB) \/\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/axvoter.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blatantly Partisan Party Reviews<\/a> by Andr\u00e9 Brett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might as well, because &#8230; &#8230; underneath the big top, it is, election time again. And, as usual, there&#8217;s no shortage of eggsperts, partisans and pollsters to pay attention to (or to ignore). In any case, I thought I&#8217;d note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=52753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state","category-thats-capitalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-dIR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52753"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52782,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52753\/revisions\/52782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}