Approximately six million Australians will vote for independents or minor parties at the federal election to be held on the 3rd of May 2025.
The six million figure is based on the 2022 federal election where “the national vote for independents or minor parties was the highest in almost a century. A third of Australians voted for someone who wasn’t running for Labor or the Coalition.”
Based on that it is worth having a look at the Legalise Cannabis Party who are a reasonably established party in the fact that they have MP’s in the WA, Victoria and New South Wales state parliaments.
Below is an interview I recorded with Legalise Cannabis Party Queensland senate candidate Belinda Jones on the 28th of March 2025.
(Click here to watch the above video on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel)
It says on the Legalise Cannabis Party website:
About the Legalise Cannabis Party
Legalise Cannabis Parties have formed or are in the process of forming in every state and territory of Australia. The first state party, Legalise Cannabis Queensland, was formed ahead of their 2020 election where twenty-three candidates garnered up to 5.5% of the primary vote. Western Australia was next, registered just in time to contest the March 2021 election, attaining two Upper House seats. Following was Victoria, in November 2022. They also won two Upper House seats. The latest win was in New South Wales, in 2023, securing yet another state Upper House seat.
With the Northern Territory and Queensland elections in 2024 and Legalise Cannabis South Australia facing elections in March 2026, we are working toward Australia-wide representation and would appreciate you joining our grassroots campaign, as every state/territory will have a Legalise Cannabis Party. As prohibition is enforced at state/territory level, alongside laws governing policing and driving, we need to be organised at that level to campaign for reform and common-sense cannabis policy. Legalise Cannabis is continuing to grow and we sincerely hope you will join to help keep cannabis law reform happening.
Reduce harm –The criminalisation of cannabis use is a decades old, failed policy that disproportionately harms young and indigenous people and leads to massive upheaval in the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens.
Create jobs – Legalising and regulating cannabis will bring one of the nation’s largest cash crops under the rule of law. This will create jobs and economic opportunities in the formal economy instead of the illicit market.
Save money – Scarce law enforcement resources will be better used to ensure public safety while reducing corrections and court costs. Governments would acquire significant new sources of revenue from regulating cannabis sales.
Promote consumer safety – Cannabis product testing is becoming a standard requirement for legalised cannabis markets. This means consumers are better informed about the cannabis they use. (Click here to read more)
Party Values
We advocate to protect and uphold
- Civil Liberties
- Privacy
- Human Rights
- Personal Freedoms
- Anti-Discrimination / Tolerance
- Compassion (Click here to read more on the Legalise Cannabis Party website)
Why we need to vote for minor parties and independents
There are many reasons why people should vote for independent candidates and minor parties which are addressed in the above video, but I would like to add the below points.
Australia will soon pass $1 trillion in debt and are forecast to have budget deficits for at least the next 10 years.
Australia is heading towards bankruptcy yet the Labor, Liberal and National Parties have no plan to solve the problem and are just spending more and more money trying to buy votes.
The ABC published an article (29/3/25) titled “A $100 billion budget black hole awaits whoever wins the election” which starts off:
The federal budget deficit could be ten times larger than expected within a decade whoever wins the upcoming election, new analysis suggests, with neither major party offering voters a realistic solution to cope with growing pressure to spend.
Labor’s fourth budget on Tuesday confirmed the first two budget surpluses in 15 years would be followed by a decade-long return to deficits, with Treasury projecting the imbalance between spending and revenue would only disappear in 2035-36.
But analysis by the e61 Institute suggests that even this assessment is “built on fanciful assumptions”, with the deficit realistically closer to $100 billion in that year, nearly ten times larger than the budget papers suggest.
“The major parties appear hesitant to grasp the nettle on budget repair, [which] requires raising taxes or decreasing spending,” authors Aaron Wong and Lachlan Vass said.
“The current implicit strategy appears to [be to] rely on non-credible increases in income tax through bracket creep, and to cross our fingers and hope no new significant expenditures arise.
“In addition to being unrealistic, this approach creates uncertainty for households and firms.” (Click here to read more)
The SMH published an article on (29/3/25) by former Treasury secretary Ken Henry titled “Cowardly politics is robbing our children blind. It’s time to be brave” which starts off:
We find ourselves in an election campaign framed by immediate cost-of-living issues, with the principal contenders pandering to an electorate they believe to be interested in nothing else.
But are we so venal? Are we so disinterested in the nation’s future? Are we content with being the first generation of Australians unable to state with confidence that future generations will be even better off than we are? (Click here to read more)
The major headlines of the old media just rehash what they have been told by the politicians that day, but if you search you can find out what is really happening and it ain’t pretty.
Australia is sailing into major headwinds, and we have the choice between 2 career politicians, as Prime Minister, who should have never been in politics in the first place.
Having a Federal government relying on the support of independents and minor parties to govern (minority government) is Australia’s future, and only hope, as the major parties are corrupted beyond repair and cannot be trusted to govern for the good of the people.
If we do have a minority government after the election, and I think we will, then there will be no turning back.
If you are reading this article you should think about joining the 6 million or so Australians who will be voting for independents and minor parties at the 2025 federal election.
The major reason why 6 million voters have turned to minor parties and independents is because they want honest politicians which is something the Labor, Liberal and National Parties can’t and/or won’t deliver.
Over the next 5 weeks, until election day on the 3rd of May 2025, I will publish as many stories as I can regarding key political issues the old media are not focused on, but should be.
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Categories: Peter Dutton, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
This may well be the most important election many of us ever vote in.
Labor has made great progress repairing the economic and social damage from the previous LNP Govt. For Dutton and another billionaire cartel, puppet LNP Govt to be elected now, would obviously be a complete disaster to the progress in so many areas, already achieved for the Commonwealth.
If for some reason you believe a vote For Blender Jones “Cannabis party” is of some kind of merit, you best make sure that second preference vote is for Labor or you will get these, vague and in many cases completely contrived deluded fantasy policies. Distractions, flooding the media narrative zone with crap, “Steve Bannon politics”, of what is basically a Trumpesque Billionaire cartels puppet Dutton’s LNP inflicted on us all with the menace you all know, with Dutton’s precious record is absolutely capable of inflicting?
You say “Labor has made great progress repairing the economic and social damage from the previous LNP Govt.” as Australia passes $1 trillion of debt and heads into at least 10 years of massive deficits.
At least $368 billion is being poured down the drain on the AUKUS deal that Albanese negotiated and signed the final agreement.
Thank you KCA, your dedication to informing the general public, whilst the MSM continually spreads miss-information..
Some people seem unable to grasp that the duopoly is riddled with corruption and a vote for either is a vote for further degradation of our environment/living standards.
As of March 30, 2025, Australia’s national debt is forecast to reach $1.067 trillion (36.5% of GDP) by the end of the 2026-27 financial year, though at a slower pace than previously forecast. According to the Coalition’s own budget papers they would have exceeded $1 trillion in 2023-4. So some credit to Dr Chalmers for slowing the pace surely?
I doubt Chalmers had much to do with it. From memory there was an unexpected windfall from exports. Chalmers has also signed Australia up the $368 billion AUKUS scam.
We could all do with being a little more economically literate. Deficits don’t mean what you seem to think they mean. The Australian economy has been in deficit for almost the whole of the time since Federation; only a small number of years had small surpluses. And we don’t run out of money; we print our own.
I think you don’t know what it means. “A federal budget deficit occurs when a government spends more money than it collects in revenue (taxes, fees, etc.) during a specific period (usually a fiscal year). This leads to borrowing to cover the shortfall, increasing the national debt.”
And “The 2025-26 budget deficit is now forecast to come in at $42.1bn, which is a slight improvement on what forecasts suggested at last year’s budget, handed down in May. But the subsequent deficits going out to 2028-29 are now much larger than previously estimated.”
Whilst the debt is shocking and needs to be reduced and the Government needs to do it via measures such as tax big corporations more and making overseas corporations pay tax and increasing taxation on the very rich. Gutting private school funding and scrapping the private health rebate. All measures would help pay the debt to a reasonable amount. Debt are a reasonable level is not a great worry for me as long as the country invests in things which produce exports which outweigh what you spend and we get paid in foreign currency which is greater than our own. Aukus i agree is a dud deal and should be scrapped. The bigger worry is private debt which is hugh and their are millons of people with debt greater than equity holdings and their situation is all at the mercy of economic conditions. At least with public debt governments have means to payback debts and hold alot of assets. Although many were sold by Hawke/ Keating and Howard Governments last century.
I would not trust Albanese and his minions to repair the damage they have created with their climate action. There is not enough private investments in the renewables and the consumers are paying the high price for it, which will continue if they are re-elected, with power and the cost of living increasing considerably more.
Albanese is very good at speaking many falsehoods and dissimulating misinformation, the act of evading and avoiding a clear and honest response happens quite regularly using the same list of rhetoric to distract.
As far as voting for the regular Independents, many are associated with the Labor/Greens, a vote for them will go to Labor.
I am all for cannabis law reform happening, but it needs to be controlled extra strictly, otherwise it will be used incorrectly and corrupted. Medical cannabis should become one of the drugs in the very near future without having to jump over hoops to attain it.
Who are these “regular Independents”? And where is your evidence that “many are associated with the Labor/Greens”?
Labor’s “climate action” has largely been making up for the lost nine years of Coalition “climate inaction”.
I see that, finally, the rest of the country is catching up with me. I have not voted for either of the major parties for the last 50 years. I got off my fat lasy, arse and actually went and spoke to independent candidates or small parties and sused out if they seemed honest and interested in helping the people they would represent and then picked the best one, in my own humble opinion. I made the mistake of telling this to a Labor candidate once – he laughed and said that I had “wasted my vote”. I shot back that if I had voted for Labor then I would agree with him. I have been patiently waiting for the Australian public to come round to my way of thinking and I believe that that time is finally arriving. We need to get rid of both of the major parties, as they are only self serving and both sides have been tickling the public purse for their own personal profit. Australia needs to have Statesmen and women, people who love this country and its people, but all we have to vote for are tenth rate policitians, who have no other ambition than getting their snout well and truely deeply embedded in the trough. Well, thats my two cents worth. Rant over.
Les
The federal seat of Indi has been held by independents for a while now. Cathy McGowan and now Helen Haines. In my estimation Cathy McGowan, the first independent, worked hard to establish a foothold.
Helen Haines is now the member. Here is my problem with Helen. She campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of the NACC during her first term. Now, in her second term, she has done, in my opinion, enormous damage to her reputation by sending a newsletter to all constituents declaring that the NACC, in its first year, has been a raging success. I could hardly believe my eyes.
This lie is so blatant it surely surpasses many other political rodents. I’m so disilusioned I might just vote for the “suck eggs party” this time around.
I published an article about that in July 2024 titled “Federal independent MP Helen Haines upsets voters by pushing government propaganda for the corrupt NACC” here: https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2024/07/04/federal-independent-mp-helen-haines-gaslights-voters-with-her-blind-support-of-the-nacc/
Thanks, KCA, for all your diligence and commitment.
Jim R
Bring on the Independents. Give them a go They couldn’t possibly be worse
The Labor/Coalition duopoly have controlled governance for so long they have absorbed corrupt practices into their fabric. It really is time for a NEW government. One that is genuinely committed to transparency, ending corporate donations to political parties, government subsidies to fossil fuel industries and the ridiculous demands of the US to buy their offensive weapons that are mostly unsuitable for Australia’s defense needs.
where I live has been a labor stronghold for many years,but the last few elections both federal and state voters have changed to swinging voters,pretty much swinging voters who dont like the major parties