Democratic Labour Party
https://dlp.org.au/
* Also a victim of the AEC's stricter party requirements which prevented them
from running in this year's federal election, the Labour-with-a-"u"
party is back for Victoria.
* A pretty long list of policies, apparantly tailored to Victoria as well.
* Quite a wide variety of policies about housing affordability. Capped taxes,
more houses, disincentives to foreign owners, "family rent assistance", etc.
Some may be good ideas, but I'd question the cost vs benefit of many.
* They're big on supporting co-operative housing projects, even establishing
a bank to serve them. I don't really know much about these, I think I've only
ever heard about them overseas, but it sounds nice.
* They want to turn around the shift to renewables and build new coal power
stations, as well as repealing bans of gas fracking. Further yet they actually
want to pay people who _haven't_ installed solar panels $500 compensation for
higher energy costs which they blame on renewables, while ending subsidies on
installing new solar systems. They also want to double registration costs for
electric vehicles to help pay for their halving the rego cost for petrol and
diesel vehicles. They're about as far against renewables as you can get short
of prominsing to come over to your house and tear the solar panels off your
roof.
* They're very much against the animal rights stuff, even introducing a law
against "politically motivated trespass" to keep those sorts from turning up
at farms.
* Against abortion and euthanasia. Religious conservative undertones.
* Like Family First, they've got annoyed about gay rights and equallity stuff.
Along with symbolic concessions to the Aboriginals, they basically
want to hear no more about any of it.
* Tough on crime, except for protestors who would be protected by "a charter
of citizens rights".
* Business policies aim largely to help small retail businesses compete with
the big guys, basically by countering a number of specific advantages held
by the latter through a list of policies.
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They're conservative to the extreme, but at least they're not ashamed of
themselves, their policies are as plain, clear, and brutal as you could want.
They've got more of an economic focus than some other right-wing parties,
especially for the benefit of people on lower incomes. Overall they're a
curious mix, but not really one that I'd like to try out.
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