30-754: The Animal Justice Party ( AJP ) is a political party in Australia founded in 2009 by Steve Garlick. The party was registered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on 3 May 2011. The party is also registered in New South Wales , Queensland , South Australia , Victoria , Western Australia , Tasmania , Northern Territory , and the Australian Capital Territory . The AJP is the first political party in Australia formed solely to advance animal welfare issues. The preamble of
60-572: A "traitor" and a "hypocrite". In response, Pearson asserted that "the main constituents of the party are not vegans or vegetarians" and that "We did not get elected by the vegan community." Since then, the AJP has introduced rules that leaders and candidates representing the party must be vegan. Notable vegan candidates include Chris Delforce, director of the documentary Dominion , and James Aspey . List of political parties in Australia [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The politics of Australia has
90-663: A branch of the Liberal Party, but it is affiliated with the Nationals and members elected to federal parliament may sit as either Liberals or Nationals. The Country Liberal Party was formed in 1978 when the Northern Territory gained responsible government. It is a separate member of the federal coalition, but it is affiliated with the two major members and its president has voting rights in the National Party. The name refers to
120-485: A human society which functions with kindness and compassion within its ecological limits as a responsible member of the Earth community." The ideology of the party has five guiding principles: It has more than 50 published policies under the categories "Animals", "Environment" and "Humans". The party aims to give animals constitutional protection based on their sentience , as opposed to their instrumental value. The AJP opposes
150-446: A limited number of seats and do not generally directly compete with the Liberal Party. Its ideology is generally more socially conservative than that of the Liberal Party. In 1987, the National Party made an abortive run for the office of prime minister in its own right, in the Joh for Canberra campaign. However, it has generally not aspired to become the majority party in the coalition, and it
180-714: A mild two-party system , with two dominant political groupings in the Australian political system, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition . Federally, 17 of the 151 members of the lower house (Members of Parliament, or MPs) are not members of major parties, as well as 21 of the 76 members of the upper house (senators). The Parliament of Australia has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting , with full- preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect
210-523: Is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi) and, in August 2021, had a population of 121,470. It includes the city of Bendigo and the towns of Axedale , Elmore , Heathcote , Marong , Raywood and Strathfieldsaye . It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the former City of Bendigo with
240-755: Is generally liberal conservatism . Every elected prime minister of Australia since 1910 has been a member of either the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, or one of the Liberal Party's previous incarnations (the Commonwealth Liberal Party , the Nationalist Party of Australia , and the United Australia Party ). The Liberal Party is joined by the National Party , a party that represents rural and agricultural interests. The Nationals contest
270-527: Is generally understood that the prime minister of Australia will be a member of either the Labor or Liberal parties. On two occasions (involving Earle Page in 1939, and John McEwen from December 1967 to January 1968), the deputy prime minister , the leader of the National Party (then known as the Country Party), became the prime minister temporarily, upon the death of the incumbent prime minister. Arthur Fadden
300-681: Is in government in New South Wales , Victoria , South Australia , Western Australia , the Australian Capital Territory and the Federal Government of Australia . The other group is a conservative grouping of parties that are in coalition at the federal level, as well as in New South Wales , but compete in Western Australia and South Australia . It is in government in Tasmania and the Northern Territory . The main party in this group
330-647: Is located at the council headquarters in Bendigo, it also has service centres located in Heathcote, Huntly, Marong and a couple of other locations within Bendigo. The city is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-west of the LGA, that is Bendigo, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 99,122. The council is composed of three wards and nine councillors, with three councillors per ward elected to represent each ward. The most recent election
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#1732854962736360-525: Is the centre-right Liberal Party . The Liberal Party is the modern form of a conservative group that has existed since the combination of the Protectionist Party and Free Trade Party into the Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1909. Although this group has changed its nomenclature, there has been a general continuity of MPs and structure between different forms of the party. Its modern form was founded by Robert Menzies in 1944. The party's philosophy
390-771: The 2010 Australian Federal Election . To maintain registration, parties must demonstrate that they have a certain number of members. Federally, since 2022, unless a party has current parliamentary representation, they must demonstrate they have 1,500 members. For the state and territory elections, parties require 100 members in Tasmania and the ACT, 200 in South Australia and Northern Territory, 500 in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, and 750 in New South Wales. Parties listed in alphabetical order as of September 2024: As of
420-656: The Borough of Eaglehawk , Shire of Strathfieldsaye , Shire of Huntly and parts of the Rural City of Marong and Shire of McIvor . It is the state's third largest economy base and is considered a service and infrastructure centre for north central Victoria. The city is surrounded by 40,000 hectares of regional, state and national parkland. The city is governed and administered by the Greater Bendigo City Council ; its seat of local government and administrative centre
450-525: The lower house , the Australian House of Representatives , and the use of the single transferable vote to elect the upper house , the Australian Senate . Other parties tend to perform better in the upper houses of the various federal and state parliaments since these typically use a form of proportional representation , except for in Tasmania where the lower house is proportionally elected and
480-436: The AJP charter says the party "has been formed as a response to growing public concern about the neglect of animals and animal protection issues by political parties" and states its mission is to "secure the interests of animals and nature through Australia’s democratic institutions of government". The AJP's vision is a "planet on which animals and nature have the right to live and thrive free from negative human interference and
510-412: The AJP interviewed members about the role of women in the party. The researcher found that more than 70% of AJP members are women, far higher than other Australian political parties , and that "men [in the party] have a heightened awareness of any gender gap in leadership." Other findings included: greater opportunities for women to run for elected office, that women seize leadership opportunities, and that
540-1122: The New South Wales Electoral Commission: As of the Victorian Electoral Commission: As of the Queensland Electoral Commission: Right-wing populism , Hansonism As of the Western Australian Electoral Commission: As of the Electoral Commission of South Australia: As of the Tasmanian Electoral Commission: As listed with the ACT Electoral Commission: As of the Northern Territory Electoral Commission: City of Greater Bendigo The City of Greater Bendigo
570-611: The Victorian Parliament, Georgie Purcell, was elected in 2022. The party also increased its primary vote over that of the 2014 Victorian election . Bruce Poon stood at the 2018 by-election for Lord Mayor of Melbourne achieving 1.63% of the vote. In 2020, the party's first ever local government representatives were elected: Charlie Vincent in the Alpine Shire and Julie Sloan in the City of Greater Bendigo . A 2021 qualitative study into
600-544: The abolition of factory farming, greyhound racing and the live export trade. The party also advocates for the termination of government funding for all animal product industries and for the advertising of animal products to be banned. In 2011, following the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's television footage showing abuse and the slaughter of cattle from the Northern Territory in conditions that would not have been permitted in Australia, as well as
630-485: The consequential nationwide protests by supporters of animal welfare , AJP, along with Animals Australia , the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU), The Greens and a range of other NGOs sought a ban on live animal exports. Banning live animal exports remains a core commitment on the AJP's election platform. At the 2015 New South Wales election , Mark Pearson gained 1.8% of
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#1732854962736660-451: The export of any live animals for profit, especially slaughter. The AJP aims to legally recognise the inherent Rights of Nature . The party also opposes the eating of meat, and advocates a plant-based diet . Additionally, the AJP has 'positions' which are stances on human social issues that do not affect animals and which the AJP says flow clearly from its core values: Kindness, Equality, Rationality and Non-violence. The party advocates for
690-512: The gender of candidates mirrors the gender composition of the membership. In 2017, Animal Justice Party MP, Mark Pearson was allegedly found to have eaten seafood at a Japanese restaurant located in Sydney. Pearson acknowledged that whilst he eats an "almost vegan " diet, he "strayed for that morsel [of fish]". This incident resulted in backlash from the vegan community of Sydney, particularly on their Facebook pages, where they accused Pearson of being
720-513: The older name of the National Party. Federally, these parties are collectively known as the Coalition . The Coalition has existed continually (between the Nationals and their predecessors, and the Liberals and their predecessors) since 1923, with minor breaks in 1940, 1973, and 1987. Historically, support for either the Coalition or the Labor Party was often viewed as being based on social class, with
750-599: The primary vote and won a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council , giving the party its first parliamentary representation. At the 2019 New South Wales election the AJP increased its primary vote to 1.95% of the state total and winning a second seat filled by Emma Hurst MLC . The AJP won its first seat in the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2018 Victorian election elected Andy Meddick MLC . The AJP's second-ever Member of
780-650: The primary vote in every election between 1910 and 2019 (including the votes of autonomous state parties). Third parties have only rarely received more than 10% of the vote for the Australian House of Representatives in a federal election, such as the Australian Democrats in the 1990 election and the Australian Greens in 2010 , 2016 , 2019 and 2022 . Additionally, support for Independent politicians in Australia has resulted in major parties having to come to agreements to form government at times, including
810-420: The upper and middle classes supporting the Coalition and the working class supporting Labor. This has been a less important factor since the 1970s and 1980s when the Labor Party gained a significant bloc of middle-class support and the Coalition gained a significant bloc of working-class support. The two-party duopoly has been relatively stable, with the two groupings (Labor and Coalition) gaining at least 70% of
840-484: The upper house is made up of single member districts. Two political groups dominate the Australian political spectrum, forming a de facto two-party system. One is the Australian Labor Party (ALP), a centre-left party which is formally linked to the Australian labour movement . Formed in 1893, it has been a major party federally since 1901, and has been one of the two major parties since the 1910 federal election . The ALP
870-537: Was held in October 2024. The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Bendigo Town Hall offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at its administrative centre on Lyttleton Terrace in Bendigo and its service centres in Heathcote, Huntly and Marong and also on Hopetoun Street and St Andrews Avenue in Bendigo. In
900-452: Was the only other Country Party, prime minister. He assumed office in August 1941 after the resignation of Robert Menzies and served as prime minister until October of that year. The Liberal and National parties have merged in Queensland and the Northern Territory / South Australia , although the resultant parties are different. The Liberal National Party of Queensland , formed in 2008, is
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