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Slogan: Providing the services we all need to live a better life

Leader: Adam Bandt

Major belief: The liberals and labour are not doing enough to reduce climate change and any further policies made by them will worsen the situation
Number of members: 15000

year established: 1992

Key economic policies: Taxing billionaires and big corporations, and more pay and secure jobs. Strong renewable economy.

Other policies: free healthcare, free education and no student debt

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Leader - Barnaby Joyce
Members - 36
Established  - January 22 1920
Major Beliefs and Values

Strong representation of our local communities and the delivery of positive outcomes on the issues that affect their lives and lifestyles;

Security for our communities and their families, through the preservation of decent health, safety, social and economic welfare standards;

Individual achievement, the importance of free choice and a fair go, the reward for private enterprise and the need for equity investment and wealth generation

Key economic policies

Strengthening the economy to deliver more jobs, more apprentices and working towards unemployment below four per cent.

Tackling the cost of living pressures through a reduction in fuel costs, increasing housing affordability and reducing taxes for regional workers and their families

Greater investment in regional infrastructure will create long-term opportunities and growth to underpin regional prosperity

Building a better health system that will provide more GPs and health specialists in our regions and towns where they are needed.

Bringing back manufacturing to Australia will reduce Australia’s reliance on others while creating local jobs in regional communities

Their Mission:
“The Nationals are dedicated to delivering future security, opportunity and prosperity for all regional Australians, through targeted polices that focus on stronger regional economies, secure communities, a sustainable environment and the highest possible standard of living”

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The United Australia Party (Donald Trump 2.0)

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The United Australia Party (Donald Trump 2.0)

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United Australia Party
Slogan - Help Us Make Australia Great.
Leader - Clive Palmer
Major Beliefs and Values - The Liberals, Labor and Greens are stupid,
Number of Members - over 80000 (that's quite big)
Year Established -  1931
Economic Policies -
- Repayment of National Debt,
- Bring Australian Super Home (A trillion dollars of super brought back to Australia)
- Process Australian minerals in Australia
- End Australia’s Energy Crisis
- Encourage Australians to buy local Australian Products
- Increase age pension by $180 a fortnight
- Giving hospitals the funding they need
- Allow businesses to trade out of difficulty
- Zonal Taxation for regional communities
- Abolish Fringe Benefits Tax
- Tax relief on second jobs
- Change how Provisional Tax is paid
- Link all service pensions to average earnings
Other Policies -
- A maximum of 3% interest rate on home loans
- the First $30,000 of a home loan to be tax-deductible
- Abolish HECS debts for students
- End Lockdowns. Forever
- No Domestic Vaccine Passports
- Respect the Sanctity of Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Abolish National Cabinet
- Protecting Free Speech from Foreign Tech Giants
- Protect Australian values
- Exclusion of Lobbyists
- Strengthen Australia’s Defence
- Link all service pensions to average earnings

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- Socialist Alliance
- The party slogan is "For the billions, not the billionaires".
- The leaders consist of Sue Bolton (City of Moreland), Sam Wainwright (City of Fremantle) and Rob Pyne (Cairns Region).

Major beliefs/values:
- Refugee rights
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights
- Anti-racism
- Environmental sustainability
- Public ownership

Number of members: 1,650
Year established: 2001

Key economic policies:
-  Tax corporations and the rich-no GST
- Nationalise mines, banks and energy companies
- Shifting to 100% renewable energy
- Bring power industries under public ownership
- Democracy, not corporate dictatorship
- Migrant and asylum seeker rights

Other major policies:
- Scrap all anti - union laws
- Put the police under community control
- Scrap "anti-terror" laws
- MAKE WAGE THEFT A CRIME
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Party leader: Pauline Hanson
hola amigos

Major beliefs and Values: We are a party that stands for Australia and Australian values. We defend our constitution and stand up against global agendas for the individual rights and fundamental freedoms of all Australians.

Number of members:
- 15 members in the House of Representatives

Year established: Pauline Hanson exploded upon the Australian political scene with her landmark maiden speech to Parliament after she was elected the Member for Oxley in 1996. One Nation achieved a primary vote of 9% in the Federal election and 22% in the 1998 Queensland elections.

Key economic policies:
One Nation acknowledges that the most basic function of government is to provide a safe, secure and peaceful society for its citizens.

Other major policies:
For Australia’s identity and vision to be inspired by a fresh appreciation of its natural resources, its people and history - thereby recognising and acting upon their importance to our continued well being of responsibly developing, conserving and renewing our country and way of life.

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Party Slogan
“Strong Economy, Stronger Future”

Party Leader
Scott Morrison (also known as Scomo)

Major Beliefs/Values

Inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples

A lean government that minimised interference in day to day lives and maximises individual and private sector initiatives

A government that nurtures and encourages its citizens through incentives rather than limiting people through disincentives of taxes and structure/red tape (particularly that of the Labour party)

The most basic freedoms of Australian democracy (protected under the constitution) → the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association

Just and humane society

Equal opportunity for all Australians

Non-competitiveness within the private sector

That individuals and businesses (rather than governments) are the creators of wealth and employment

Preserving the natural beauty and environment of Australia

Number of members
36

Year Established

On October 16, 1944, the name The Liberal Party of Australia was created and a few months later frameworks and plans were drawn up for the party.

In 1946, they entered their first election and were successful.

Key Economic Policies

Stabilising & reducing gross and net debt (share in the economy

Targeting a budget balance over the course of the economic cycle that is consistent with the debt objective.

Controlling expenditure growth

Supporting revenue growth

Using the government to support productivity-enhancing investments

Ongoing structural reforms to boost economic growth

Enabling Australians to keep more of what they earn through increasing tax releif

Maintaining funding for public hospitals

Guaranteeing cheaper medicines including treatments for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and bowel cancer.

Increased commonwealth school funding

Investing our regions to deliver the critical transport, industries, skills, water and communications infrastructure they need to thrive.

Making investments in infrastructure, defence and border security

Other major policies

"support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights)"

"liberal democracy",

"rule of law",

"economic and political freedom",

"freedom of speech",

"freedom of the press",

"freedom of religion"

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Labour Party (red)?? (Chaz, Elsie, Renatah)

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Labour Party (red)?? (Chaz, Elsie, Renatah)

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- SLOGAN: "A Better Future"
- Party Leader: Anthony Albanese
- Members : 430,926
- Year Est. 1901
- Policies:
- Protecting penalty rates
- Repair Social housing

- Economic Policies:
- cutting down on contractors, consultants and labour hire      in the public service
- Prioritising smart, responsible and targeted investments
- Conducting a waste and rorts audit
- Closing down loopholes that are used to not pay taxes

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You will be allocated a political party.

In groups, you will need create a Padlet post that includes the following information about your party:

Party name

Party slogan

Party leader

Major beliefs/values

Number of members

Year established

Key economic policies

Other major policies

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