Dannii’s Opinionated Guide to the 2025 Australian Federal Election
Welcome to my guide to the 2025 Australian Federal Election. This is as opinionated guide because it covers only the issues I personally think are most important, and I give my personal evaluation of each party’s policies on these issue. Of course there are many other issues which other people care about, I just hope anyone who sees this might consider these issues as well when they decide to to vote for. But I do aim for my description of each party’s policies within those categories to be factual. If you see an error, or something I missed, let me know here.
You might also like to use the ABC’s Vote Compass tool.
Remember, you can’t waste your vote in Australian elections! Remember to number all candidates in the House of Representatives, and at least 6 above the line (or 12 below the line) in the Senate. You can safely give your first preference vote to a minor party and then vote for your preferred major party afterwards.
Unfortunately I couldn’t make a detailed evaluation with links to each party’s policy documents, so this year I’m just giving a summary of the policies of each party that stood out to me.
At a Glance
- Greens
- Dental into medicare
- Public housing
- Expand public owned renewable energy
- Subsidise batteries
- Wipe all HECS debt
- End AUKUS
- End occupation of Palestine
- Sustainable Australia
- Anti corruption
- Free uni education
- Ban new coal mines
- Reduce emissions by 75% by 2030, net zero by 2035
- Max $1 poker machine bets
- Include dental in medicare
- UBI $26K/year
- Abolish negative gearing and 50% CGT discount
- Increase regional ABC funding
- Reduce immigration, but maintain refugee intake
- Expand rail networks
- Transition to zero waste society
- Democrats
- Rapidly decarbonise this decade
- Increase science research
- Tax on virgin plastic
- Reduce uni fees
- Right to repair
- Raise age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14
- More public transport
- Committed to Uluru Statement
- Ban lobbying in parliament house
- Repeal climate protestor laws
- Ban gambling advertising
- Truth in political advertising
- Indigenous - Aboriginal Party of Australia
- Kids stay in families
- No juvie detention
- Treaty
- Australia’s Voice (Fatima Payman)
- Limit negative gearing
- Slash politician’s perks
- Republic
- Fight climate change
- Jacqui Lambie
- Labor
- Wiper 20% student debt
- Strengthen Medicare
- 5% house deposits
- Invest $10B to build 100K homes for first home buyers
- 82% renewables by 2030
- Fusion party
- Declare climate emergency
- 10 year transition to negative emissions
- High speed rail Mel to Bne
- Pro GenAI
- Anti corruption
- Land tax
- UBI
- Socialist Alliance
- Pro first nations treaties
- Right to vote at 16
- Abolish ASIO and spy agencies
- End ANZUS and withdraw from AUKUS, cut military spending by 50%
- Withdraw from all trade agreements that allow corporations to sue governments
- Increase minimum wage to $35
- Oppose foetal personhood laws
- No religious exemptions for LGBTIQ discrimination
- Free uni education
- Free public transport
- LNP
- Nuclear power
- Reduce migration, including reduce refugees from 20,000 to 13,750
- Ban foreign home investment
- Reduce PBS co-payment
- Legalise Cannabis
- Animal Justice
- End greyhound racing
- Raise age of criminal responsibility to 14
- Against all farming of animals (even cultured meat!)
- Ban animals in circuses
- Pro refugees
- Declare climate emergency
- Anti corruption
- Pro public transport
- Pro vaccines as long as they’re not tested on animals
- Australian Citizens
- Pro Prince Philip conspiracies (at least previously)
- No war with China, leave AUKUS
- Aussie Post Bank
- Anti corruption
- Abolish and replace ASIC
- Abolish negative gearing
- Open to nuclear power
- Food and fuel security
- Family First
- Ban puberty blockers
- Abolish diversity training
- Royal commission for government handling of covid pandemic
- Criminalise purchasing prostitutes
- Anti trans
- Anti drugs
- Pro sprawl
- Pause net zero
- Ban late term abortions
- HEART
- Natural medicine
- Vaccine skeptics
- Katter’s Australian
- Abandon emissions target, restore coal
- Libertarian
- Make super voluntary
- Pro crypto currency
- No renewable energy targets
- Abolish department of education
- Define woman based on biological sex
- Repeal section 18C of racial discrimination act
- Defund ABC
- Trumpet of Patriots
- Cut immigration
- “High speed” (120km) rail
- Pro coal power
- Exit Paris Agreement
- Get woke out of schools
- No vaccine mandates
- One Nation
- No GST on housing building materials
- Exit Paris Agreement
- Cut immigration
- Withdraw from UN Refugee Convention