Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics/Parties
Major parties[edit]
Party articles that in reasonable shape[edit]
Australia doesn't have any brilliant articles, but these could be a lot worse.
- Australian Labor Party
- needs many lists to be split off into other articles
- needs information other than structure and history (i.e. better coverage of ideology)
- Liberal Party of Australia
- has decent history and ideology coverage; doesn't have much else
- could be better organised
- Family First Party
- generally covers almost all of the content, though could do with quite a rewrite, with a bit of NPOV treatment (i.e. Conservative Status --> Ideology, with the content reworked accordingly)
- National Party of Australia
- barely passable, covers the content very concisely
- could do with a lot more on the history, and political role, ideology and support base could be split up into separate sections
- Australian Progressive Alliance
- I don't think there's much more to be done here
- Australian Greens
- Seems okay
Need quite a bit of work[edit]
- Australian Democrats
- history section is good after about 1997, but is atrocious before that
- ideology section is poor, and it doesn't really have much else
- One Nation Party
- needs sectioning
- doesn't mention splits at all (WA, Qld and NSW)
- doesn't mention anything about the party's ideology, support base, opposition, and the ramifications, both domestic and overseas, of the party
- history section needs tightening up some
- Country Liberal Party
- needs a very great expansion
- history
- ideology
- reasons for remaining separate from LP/NP
- needs a very great expansion
Minor parties[edit]
In reasonable shape[edit]
- Australia First Party
- seems to cover most of what there is to say - could perhaps be expanded a bit
- Christian Democratic Party of Australia
- covers most of the issues, though could do with a little bit of work - needs an infobox and doesn't mention Gordon Moyes
- Citizens Electoral Council
- probably seems to be the best of the group, ironically - not much more to be added here
- Communist Party of Australia (revived)
- reasonable, though it could do with some information about its electoral campaigns (number of seats run in, vote received, etc)
- Democratic Labor Party
- looks basically good - there's room for improvement but it's far from the worst
- Great Australians Party
- I think that's about all you could say about these guys
- Nuclear Disarmament Party
- it's in decent shape, covering the history quite well, though it could still be expanded quite a bit
- People Power Party
- not sure there's much more to say here
- Shooters Party
- this could be expanded quite a bit, but it covers the core issues well enough
Need quite a bit of help[edit]
- Advance Australia Party
- Currently redirects to Advance Australia Party (historical), a deregistered party. There is a new Advance Australia Party (not aware of links to the old one) that is running candidates in the 2019 NSW election, and presumably will run in the 2019 Federal Election too. Not linked to AdvanceSA.
- Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
- there's not much there - and what there has some nasty POV problems
- Liberal Democratic Party of Australia
- very brief - was created as part of the libertarian POV wars, so needs some help
- Liberals for Forests
- very short, barely discusses ideology or the effect of their preferences at all
- National Action
- quite a few POV issues
- Progressive Labour Party
- out of date; needs cleanup in general
- Socialist Alliance (Australia)
- very short, considering how many candidates they run - much more could be said here
- Socialist Party (Australia)
- could really do with some actual details of election results and numbers of candidates run - some of the claims read like hyperbole
- Unity Party (Australia)
- quite a bit more could be said about their initial rise - they ran a lot of candidates in 1998