Here’s what they are saying and their list of candidates.
If you have read any of our commentary on the 2 West Australian “cannabis” senators who got seats due to and only because of preferences you’ll be aware CLR isn’t too impressed by their performances so far.
In the run-up to the election, we will do a bit of research on these Federal candidates all of whom are an unknown quantity except for Michael Balderstone.
If they are saying sill things on their social media we’ll be sure to highlight it. The last thing cannabis voters want to be doing in this especially important federal election is vote in proxies for the likes of the Shooters party or Clive Palmer.
Watch this space..
The Party is preparing for the election with a list of provisional federal senate candidates.
There are two in each state and territory for the minimum requirement to provide every Australian voter with the opportunity to support Cannabis law reform in the privacy of the polling booth.
FEDERAL SENATE CANDIDATES 2022
(Provisional)
New South Wales
Michael Balderstone
Michael Balderstone on Facebook
Gail Hester
Legalise Party NSW
Queensland
Bernie Bradley
Bernie Bradley: Legalise Cannabis Australia – Senate Candidate for QLD | Facebook
Suzette Luyken
Suzette Luyken: Legalise Cannabis Australia – Senate Candidate for QLD
South Australia
Tyler Green
Tyler Green LCSA Candidate for Legislative Council | Facebook
Angela Adams
Legalise Party South Australia
Tasmania
Matt Owen
Legalise Party Tasmania
Luke Williams
Victoria
Jorian Gardner
Wayne Taylor
Legalise Party Victoria
Western Australia
Nicola Johnson
Nicola Johnson: Legalise Cannabis Australia – Senate Candidate for WA | Facebook
Aaron Peet
Aaron Peet Legalise Cannabis Party Federal Senate Candidate for WA | Facebook
Australian Capital Territory
Andrew Katelaris
Andrew Katelaris – Legalise Cannabis Australia – Senate Candidate | Facebook
Michelle Stanvic
Michelle Stanvic – Legalise Cannabis Australia – Senate Candidate | Facebook
Northern Territory
Kelly-Anne Hibbert
Legalise Party Northern Territory | Facebook
Lance Lawrence
Lower House Candidates
Senate candidates and their nomination fees are the first priority.
The Party would love to run candidates in every lower house seat, but….
Voters won’t be in fear of losing their job when they write 1 in the box next to the Cannabis leaf.
Provisional Candidates – Legalise Cannabis Australia
The election is very likely to be called in early April for a May polling day. Many votes will come via early voting centres and in the mail.
We will soon know how the South Australian state election results translate to the federal election. HEMP also attracted just over 2% primary senate votes in SA and NSW at the 2019 election.
Two percent of the senate vote does have a place in negotiating with other parties on new legislation.
Hopefully we can get much more when voters understand they are sending a direct message to the law-makers, they have to listen and the votes are purely Cannabis.
Coming across
A major difficulty in campaigning for Cannabis law reform is the inherent mental health status that prohibition and ‘reefer madness’ has imposed upon ‘stoners’. Whatever point you may have is easily disregarded by those who oppose Cannabis law reform because you’re crazy by association.
Candidates are asking voters for a mental health assessment, especially from those who don’t quite understand that voting for Cannabis is only to change the law, not run the country.
Wanted for Cannabis
The Party needs your volunteer support for the campaign and polling day. Truth is, people change their minds or may not have their minds made up even as they approach the polling booth or early voting venues.
Having volunteers there to talk to them and tell them a vote for a minor party is NOT a wasted vote – putting us at 1 and your favourite at 2, CAN REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Basically, we need to be allowed to grow our own medicine, as they can in Canberra, only more, ten plants please, some like the ‘grape theory’. The ACT is an example of how a regulated market can’t happen without federal laws to collect revenue from a legal supplier.
The saliva testing of drivers has to be stopped. It must be about impairment, not the mere presence of THC which might have been consumed days before.
Help Us to Help You
Please join the volunteers group and let us know if you can help during the federal election in your state.
Members who want to help at early voting centres or on voting day should contact us today.
You can have a lot of fun on this duty!
Volunteers 2022 Legalise Cannabis Australia | Facebook
Yours sincerely,
Michael Balderstone – Party President
Peace, Love and Cannabis
PS.
The plan is to provide you with corflutes if not posters about to go to the printer now. If you can’t help there, we urgently need donations.
Seriously! Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy, the Party’s main contributor previously, has had a hard year with the lack of tourists in the pandemic and now the flood.
Any donations are greatly appreciated. Click here.
