Health Australia Party
https://www.healthaustraliaparty.com.au/
* Clearly they're digging at frustrations around the state of the health
services, but they've actually expanded 'health' to cover 'healthy'
people, economy, environment, democracy, and society.
* besides "healthy people" most of their policies on other types of health take
the middle ground and have only a few more radical flares. They do aim to
set up a national community bank as one slightly more radical move.
* On the "healthy people" topic they actually go down the alternative medicine
path. They basically want herbal medicines to be given equal footing with
drugs, including supporting anti-vaccination.
*They're against water floridation.
* They support legalising medicinal (and maybe also not-so-medicinal)
cannabis.
* They're into the 5G conspiracy theories and have a list of policies
about stricter regulation of RF radiation which don't sound helpful to me.
* They're similary scared of pesticides, though I'm not convinced that their
plans for transitioning away from them are very sound.
* They want to end Australia's military presence overseas except in peace
keeping missions, but also to set up a "swiss-style" optional system of
national service for men and women under 21. The aim seems to be as much
about giving unemployed young people more options as it is about defence,
which seems nice but may cost a lot.
* They're into the health of animals as well, and want to set up an independent
office of animal welfare. It's not my sort of thing.
* Many of those are more like federal policies, but they didn't run in the
federal election!? It turns out they were another victim of the AEC's
member number requirements, so I guess they've just kept all the
national policies in for the hell of it:
https://www.healthaustraliaparty.com.au/federal-election-2022/
On the health stuff they're a bit fringe, and clearly playing to the anti-vaccer
crowd. On other matters they're determined to say something, but don't really
have much to say, except on a few specific points where someone seems to have
had a brainwave. Best to leave them alone, to munch on their homeopathic hobble
beans or whatever such nonsense they're into.
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