Cognate's review of the 2022 QLD senate candidates. Roughly sorted in preference order. Do your own research.

1. Candidates
   1. Based
   2. Semi-based
   3. Non-cancerous minors
   4. LNP
   5. Cancerous minors
   6. ALP and Greens
2. Changelog

Candidates

Based

M – Jason Miles (Great Australian Party)

Net-zero immigration. Strong industiral policy and support for small busness. Gun rights. Central bank reform.

They have a few out there positions - they want to allow medicare claims for homeopathy, encourage bilingualism in young children (<5yo).

Edges in over One Nation due to gun rights and bank reform

X – Pauline Hanson (One Nation)

Net-zero immigration. Restrict foreign ownership of land and business. Pro-life. Less free trade. Pro-nuclear. Family law reform.

Main downside is no change to gun laws.

Semi-based

Ungrouped - Robert Lyon (Katter’s Australian Party)

Focused on developing and supporting regional QLD. Wants slightly better gun laws.

O – Isabel Tilyard (Federation)

Pause on immigration, limiting foreign ownership of land and business, pro small business

Ungrouped - Peter Rogers (Independent)

Peter Rogers will Eliminate Crime! Why hasn't anyone tried that before? Pretty good in general though, medical freedom, small business, domestic industry, family law reform, roll back to original 1900 constitution.

L – Jan Pukallus (Citizens Party)

Good banking, financial reform and industrial policy, but soft on China and refugees

Non-cancerous minors

T – Allona Lahn (Informed Medical Options)

Single issue party agains mandatory vaccinations

A – Len Harris (Independent)

Single issue candidate who's mad that land deeds are now recorded in an online database instead of being paper based

G – Kerin Payne (Federal ICAC Now)

Single issue candidate wants a federal corruption watchdog.

Ungrouped - Lindsay Temple (Independent)

Was in the Democratic Labour Party, but they couldn't get their act together in time and got deregistered. Catholic Labour friendly party. Socially conservative, economically left.

H – Steve Dickson (Independent)

Wants to develop the Sunny Coast more. Hobbies include shooting, so he can't be that bad.

N – Heston Russell (Australian Values)

Took too many leadership seminars and thinks he's a combination of Dominic Cummings and Jocko Willinck. Bland centrist policies.

R – Clive Palmer (United Australia)

Rich boomer party. Wants more domestic industry and civil liberties, but also wants to keep the housing bubble inflated.

V – Drew Pavlou (Democratic Alliance)

Anti corruption, hard on China, wants more Hydro and welfare

D – Rhett Martin (Sustainable Australia)

Less cancerous environmentalist party. Against immigration and free trade, slightly left economics.

W – Campbell Newman (Liberal Democrats)

Moar neo-liberalism. Say what you like about Campbell Newman, but he made the trains run on time.

Ungrouped - David Schefe (Independent)

Just some tradie from Roma. On the Maranoa regional council

C – Bernard Bradley (Legalise Cannabis)

Dude weed lmao

K – Lionel Henaway (Indigenous-Aboriginal Party)

Seems to be focused on actual remote communities, not urban octoroon grifters.

Ungrouped - Laurence Quinlivan (Independent)

The only people I can find with this name were born in the 1800s, so probably based.

Ungrouped - Karakan Kochardy (Independent)

The only evidence of this alleged person's existence I can find is that they once ran of mayor of Ipswich.

LNP

S – Liberal National

1. James McGrath
2. Matt Canavan
3. Amanda Stoker
4. Nicole Tobin
5. Andrew Cripps
6. Fiona Ward

Neo-liberal jews.

Cancerous minors

Ungrouped - Lorraine Smith (Independent)

I can find three Australian Lorrain Smiths on the internet: HR lady for Raytheon, cattle farmer from NSW, or bankruptcy lawyer from Melbourne. I suspect it's the first one, so listed as cancerous.

U – Brandon Selic (Fusion)

Yang gang. Wants more UBI, nuclear power, civil and digital liberties, immigration, faggotry.

Ungrouped - Chey Hamilton (Independent)

Supports the current thing. Climate change, Ukraine, weed, equality.

F – Bess Brennan (New Liberals)

Generic feel-good progressivism.

Q – Luke Arbuckle (Democrats)

Ditto

P – Mackenzie Severns (Animal Justice)

Might as well be the Greens

E – Ron Williams (Reason)

Fedora-tippers

I – Mike Head (Independent)

Trotskyite university lecturer

B – Renee Lees (Socialist Alliance)

Basically commies.

ALP and Greens

Y – Labor

1. Murray Watt
2. Anthony Chisholm
3. Edwina Andrew
4. Christina Warry
5. Jen Henderson
6. Richard Pascoe

Corrupt union jews.

J – Penny Allman-Payne (Greens)

Watermelon party - green on the outside and red on the inside.

Changelog

1.0 - Initial list of candidates with notes