G'day it's Martyn Iles here coming to you again with some useful election information for the
federal election on the 21st of may uh this election information is all about the parties
which are going to be on your ballot which you can't recognize and you don't know what they stand
for because there's a lot of them on the senate ballot no matter who you are and there may be a
lot of them on your reps ballot your little green piece of paper as well whether you vote above or
below the line in the senate whether you do one to six with the parties or one to twelve with
the individual candidates which you should do by the way because it's all about putting the right
people into the senate regardless of their party so that we've got people of strong values and so
on because they're kind of all over the place and they also shape the parties by being there
whether you do either of those things you're gonna get to a point in your numbering where you start
to sort of run out of certainty where you you know most of us don't worry about that by the way most
of us have like four and then we go oh dear now we're scratching uh and we're looking for where
to go and you'll start to get to a point where you may not recognize the names of the parties
and sometimes people vote on party name because of the way it sounds however behind every party
name is an ideology and so that's what this video is about i want to tell you a little
bit about the ideologies behind the names of the parties you're going to see on your ballot so you
don't make a big fat mistake so i have done my best to rank these from left to right on a big
pendulum all the parties um or pretty much all of them by left i mean woke uh and by right i
mean conservative in values social values right by left i mean also big government control and so on
by right i mean libertarian freedom uh free speech small government that kind of thing
so there is a locomotor at play here and there's a free thermometer at play here
high woke low freedom left low woke high freedom right okay now here's the problem
those two things don't always occur together there are a couple of outliers so there's one that we'll
get to where for example it'll be high on freedom and high on woke it's all right i'll clarify
that when i get there and explain why i put them where i did on the pendulum but anyway
that's enough of that without further ado i think that's all my introductory material yes
it is uh oh look it's a rough guide i mean one might be slightly out of order or the other but
it's pretty i think it's pretty reliable it's not bad overall oh that's right i knew there
was something i meant to say um my benchmark for this has been the conventional view that labour is
center-left and liberally center-right you will disagree i know but i had to get some objective
plumb line some benchmarking point from which to work this otherwise what do we mean by left
and right we don't know one man's extreme right is another man sort of middle left
we've got to know where we're coming from so i've said labor is center left
liberally center right for the sake of argument and i've benchmarked these on that around that
spectrum okay so without further ado starting with the extreme left and there's only one party in the
extreme left category um they are the socialist alliance and the reason i put them in the extreme
left category which sounds a bit critical right but it's because they are anarchists um they they
believe in violence they believe in anarchy they believe in all sorts of really nasty stuff like
that and you'll say to me well hang on that's not left that's surely i mean anarchy is what
you get on the right when you get less and less government but this kind of anarchy is different
maybe anarchy is a bad word it basically is the use of violence and anarchist methods
in the pursuit of the objectives of the socialist alliance or indeed the objectives of the state
if they were to be in government that's why you get all these violent protests and nastiness
in the u.s there is a kind of left-wing that is violent and that's where they are they're
yeah extreme left anyway moving into very left wing there are several firstly the greens say
no more secondly a party called reason you may have heard of used to be called the sex party but
decided that that wasn't uh winning them much uh credibility so they call themselves reason
they pretend to be these civil libertarians you're all free to be a hedonist to live how you please
but truthfully they're pretty comprehensively woked out uh and awoke that is uh and um
they have an overt anti-religion a hard secularist deliberately anti-faith anti-religion platform
big concern very left-wing also animal justice party they are the greens for animal lovers that's
probably it's a blunt way to describe it but it works uh there's a party here called the citizens
party and you say to me citizens party interesting well they're full-blown communists okay
um they just are they couldn't call themselves the communist party except that the guy that
they follow yeah he's a bit more nuanced than that but they are communists uh fusion party very left
uh that is the an alliance of several smaller parties that got together the science party the
secular party the pirate party the climate change justice party and the climate emergency action
they're alliance on social policy they're pretty full-blown climate warriors uh they believe in
universal basic income but here's the other thing like reason they have an overt deliberate
aggressive anti-faith anti-religion pro-secularist platform which would set a set christian folk and
the church in this country and they their work back quite big time so that's the very left
moving into left wing so this is just solid left wing parties um solidly left-wing parties i've put
in a democratic alliance having said solidly left-wing they're actually a bit nuanced um
this is drew pavlow's outfit the guy from the university of queensland they're anti-china
uh and they're fairly libertarian but they're full-blown work so you say how does that work
good question i i you drew's a pretty young guy maybe he hasn't thought himself through uh the
fact of the matter is um though i've had to say left overall because of the the woke aspect of the
and and i can't get around that so democratic alliance are put in the left
australian progressive pretty mainstream work platform sustainable australia they
believe in a total coal mining ban free universities they're very high taxing
full-blown climate change and all that kind of stuff so sustainable australia is definitely left
also of the left should i put the indigenous aboriginal party not because i have anything
against indigenous aboriginal causes obviously we all believe uh in a better life for uh indigenous
people and the cause there but this is a very woke view of that issue it's identity politics driven
more critical race theory say than something more balanced so i'll put them on the left
center left this is where labor now comes in you know labor is pretty wokish you know
they pretend not to be at elections but they really are um you know they're quite statist
you look at the red versus blue states in terms of covert response and you will find uh for those who
watched this that consistently the red states were more draconian harsher and continue to be
more status more like the government has the answer uh you know sit down and shut up little guy
while we you know crush you with government power uh there's a you know that's kind of the you know
they're not hard full-on but they're center-left uh tnl um you're going to see a party called tnl
i think who's that i think it stands for the new liberals they're labor-ish center-left um
or if if labor center left then there's on the left uh then centrist i'm suspicious of parties
who sound centrist or bill themselves as centrist this is the kind of party that says yeah look we
don't care either way we just go with wherever all the expert testimony does and all the consulting
does and the institutions in the process that have been set up by the democratic
uh process and uh all of that we go with where it takes us and we're centrists where these
data-driven democratically driven institutionally driven process-driven people i don't believe it
okay i just don't believe it i find parties in the past that have styled themselves as centrists have
been hiding something else uh but nonetheless i have to say based on what i know australian
democrats center australian values party you may not have heard of them pretty vanilla middle of
the road status quo kind of people you know very balanced very moderate obsess um center right
let's move over on to just tipping into the right side of the spectrum according to the benchmark i
chose uh liberal national coalition um they're not woke but they are lethargic as to wokeness
on the whole they just let it happen oh it's the economy stupid don't worry about all that
you know don't worry about the society go to pot it's all about the economy that's kind of
where they're at they do a reasonable attempt at free marketing i suppose although less and less
and they believe in slightly more freedoms than labor do then you have the liberal democratic
party the ldp i put them center right very very hard to classify i have to say
this could even be wrong but they are definitely of the right in terms of full-blown free market
full-blown freedoms liberties maximum freedom of religion maximum freedom of speech never vote for
a policy that increases taxes get the government out of the way grind the government down move
them into this into something small something manageable or something that doesn't bother us
in our lives i tell you what i'm very sympathetic to that because increasingly we're looking for
that kind of freedom for the for christians to function in their beliefs and convictions
so they're very much of the right in that respect there's a curiosity here
which is that they seem to pursue some woke or left-wing social policy so you will find a lot
of liberal democrats will pursue euthanasia and try and introduce it into parliament they
will pursue the deregulation of prostitution and the sex industry and things like that they will
pursue deregulation decriminalization opening up of gambling and things um you find you know
they'll pursue decriminalization of drugs and you go oh that's left-wing but see this is the
funny thing they're not doing it for left-wing reasons they're doing it because they actually
just believe shrink the government get the government out of that space less government
employees less government work less government size i think truly they overestimate uh the human
nature and i think people are better than they are that's what i think is the failing there but i've
put them center right there's so much going for them there's some stuff that i really don't like
so hard to classify i reckon center right and also on my other video you'll see a lot of christians
have got into the ldp so to a large degree the direction on those social issues will depend
on who from the ldp gets elected okay it depends on the individuals and there are a
number of christians okay also on the center right up for australian christians if you're in western
australia you will see them on your senate ballot you may see them on your house of reps ballot
they're only in western australia very much i would say kind of like acl in terms of their
views and convictions so if you know us you know them mostly mostly okay now i'm going to move
into the center right to right wing not quite i'm not prepared to say that this is full right
but it's center right to right wing i'm going to put here the australian federation party
the australian federation party is of the right in the sense that they are incredibly democratized
it's all about having a town hall meeting in every electorate having citizen-initiated referenda
having all sorts of super grassroots-focused democratization of process and politics there's
a very strong focus on maximum liberty um there's a they're big on freedoms they're anti all the
covert stuff that's been going on at the lockdowns and all that there but but the other side of it is
that they're fairly big on welfare um they do have some stuff about anthropogenic global warming um
they have protectionist economic policies uh which you'll find from here on with most of the parties
there's some protectionism in there so that's the that's to be contrasted with the idea that we're
in part of some global big free market and the australian market doesn't need hedging about with
tariffs and controls and regulations to make sure manufacturing stays here and farmers don't go out
of business there's an argument everyone agrees that would be a great idea there's no argument
whether it works but some people will try for that to be a bit more insular economically others will
try and be much more free and open and global uh so they're more protectionists that's just to
explain that issue but here's a there's a weird thing with the australian federation party they
want to make animals at law sentient beings which is bizarre that starts to give animals rights and
it's it's messy right it's a it's a woke idea and i just don't know why it crept in there um
but anyway that's the australian federation party i'm going to say center right to right
because they're very right on some things but they just pull back on a few others so that's
where i land with them center right to right i'm also going to put shooters fishers and
farmers party i think this is what the nationals would be if they weren't tethered to the liberals
there's not a trace of woke in these people um they have a strong focus on liberty they're very
much um straight down the line on opposing a lot of what happened with covert at the lockdowns and
the vaccines and all that uh in a way that's not um you know you know they're not they're
just saying pro-choice freedom liberty right um then uh uh where am i they they they have a
strong rural interest they they support shooting fishing farming they support mining they're very
australia first pretty balanced in terms of foreign policy environmental policy and that
no trace of ideology no trace of woke that i can find and look who doesn't love country people um
i honestly do i wish i was one you know if you know me that i definitely am not but um yeah i
just really appreciate the down-to-earth nature the practical nature the non-ideological nature
of uh rural folks and the shooters fishers and farmers party is a party of the bush for the bush
and in that i appreciate that they're for the city too because they're not work they've got good
values so center right to right shoot a fisher's farmer's party uh then we go into the right um
i might have tried a bit too much sympathy for them to be honest but anyway then we
move into the right uh and i think squarely right-wing parties and i don't mean that that's
a pejorative term these days like a criticism i don't mean it like that i just mean that they are
right-wing and their beliefs and their views of the right compared to the benchmarks that i set
um one nation um pretty consistently right-wing i'd say on their policy consistently not woke the
thing about one nation which will contrast them with a couple of the others that i've mentioned
on the right of the spectrum is that they are engaged in the culture wars they have a pro-life
policy for example it's not something you find with many of the others if and i think one other
they do engage in culture wars so their not wokeness is much more manifest because they
actually talk about those sorts of issues most other parties avoid it and it depends on the
individual candidates so they're not woke at all they are silent about a couple of things
but not as many as others maximum freedom it's a little bit of economic protectionism in there
but they're pretty consistently run-of-the-mill right-wing i would say the same about the united
australia party i'm a little concerned about the uap's uh personality cult thing if you go to their
website the stuff it says about clive and the presentation of clive is a bit icky and not true
but anyway it's amazing heaps of christians have gone into the uap heaps uh and so get the right
people elected it could be a christian party it's um it's pretty incredible but they're consistently
i think of the right economically they're big on solid economic foundations and free markets
and all that bit of protectionism a little bit um particularly a few key issues which draw them back
um but also um they don't say much about social policy so it's hard for
me to apply a locometer here i think it really the future of the uap is really going to depend on who
gets elected to represent the uap i really think that especially on the work stuff but
i believe obviously in maximum freedom we know that in liberty they are mostly free market
and seem unwoke seem unwork so they're right okay i'm going to move now into one party
which i have put into the very right wing category notice i started with an extreme left and that was
socialist alliance so then i went into very left i'm not going to have an extreme right because
i think on the extreme right you need to have something that's equivalent in terms of violence
or in terms of some kind of um white supremacist kind of view of the world or something like that
we don't have anyone like that uh in fact i think they'd be chased out of the nation with pitchforks
but i'd say i'd say bordering to the very right is uh is the great australian party
so i'm not bashing them as extremists i'm just saying that they are properly right-wing
they are really not very free-market they have far more protectionists
otherwise yeah maximum freedom um no work that i can find but they're pretty
silent on a lot of things like the uap there is one thing that gets me though
and it's the same thing that the australians the australian federation party had what is it with
these animals should be recognized as sentient beings in law it's a mental idea and it's so
out of kilter with parties that otherwise maybe it's trying to attract us another kind of voter
i don't know um but legally i just don't know how that would work and i just personally from
a theological point of view i think it's wrong um anyway it is what it is uh great australian
party very right um now there are four parties that i've just listed here that are kind of like
not a couple of them are single issue parties federal icac now is a single issue party they
just want icac federally international now the uh uh commission against corruption the um uh
i've forgotten what the how can i forget what nike means i did never mind
um but they're genuinely single issue they just want this um uh this this anti-corruption body
to be set up federally and it's a very left-wing idea actually because it says
basically more centralized government oversight of government creates a better government
i think people living in new south wales might query that so that's a single issue part of the
other single issue party is legalized cannabis genuinely just want to legalize cannabis for
anyone and everyone grow as much as you like smoke as much as you like share as much as you like
that's it and then you have two parties which are narrower in focus in four medical options not
single issue but doesn't have a full-blown suite of policies but of course it's all based around
the idea that you know you should have freedom of choice in vaccinations and things like that
but also they have a pro-life policy which is rare and very interesting but it seems to
tip them over onto the i think they're squarely more of the right whereas the iacac i think is
more of the left on the whole uh then you have the seniors united party quite a mixture to be honest
mostly sounds center-right uh and conventional but there's a couple of
virtue signaling in there on sort of same-sex marriage euthanasia a bit of lefty tax policy
so probably around coalition-y kind of territory uh for the seniors united party i haven't covered
the victorian socialists because they're just similar to socialist alliance and they're only in
victoria i haven't covered the western australian party because i don't know um and they're in wa
look them up have us you might know them uh i haven't covered the jackie lambie network
only in tasmania and i'll tell you why nobody knows how jackie lambie thinks um i can't rank her
i just can't i don't know how the synapses join up and that's just an absolute fact not being mean
it's just true i have no clue what her philosophy is probably doesn't have one and on that note that
is the left to right spectrum i hope you stuck with me i hope you noted down all the names of
those parties um and i hope it's helpful so you know what to avoid and what to be attracted to
when you get past you thought of three four five on your senate ballot and you're going where
next you don't stray into any really dodgy areas all right that's it from me thank you