Freedom Party
https://freedomparty.net.au/
* A new party, which seems to have been formed by anti-lockdown loud mouths
who hate Daniel Andrews. I'm with them on the Dan Andrews front, but not
so much just for the lockdowns in particular.
* They're subtly against renewable energy, saying they'll "end subsidies to
inefficient energy industries" while they'll "Halt closing down of
Victoria's power stations".
* They want to boost investment in regional Victoria through tax incentives,
which is nice. But I prefer reducing population as a solution to Melbourne's
unsustainable growth rather than spreading the problem around the state.
* They want more lenient firearms laws, and have a lot of specific policies
on this. Not a free-for-all though, much of it has some merit.
* I do like their approach of using third party audits to investigate government
departments "deemed to be outside of approved spending targets and limits".
* They're into "holistic and complementary medicines", which sounds like
something for the anti-vaccers amongst the anti-lockdown crowd.
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They're here for the Dan Andrews haters who don't like the Liberal party either.
I'm in that camp, but without enough of a right-wing bent to find myself at
home with this party. Their confrontational approach also isn't to my taste.
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