Introduction

Sustainable Australia Party is an independent community movement with a science and evidence-based approach to policy - not a left or right wing ideology.

SAP is campaigning to:

• Protect our environment
• Stop overdevelopment
• Stop corruption

There's also much more in our broad policy platform.

Candidates

SAP is running candidates in every Upper House region so that every Victorian can vote for SAP.

Legislative Council (Upper House)

> Current MPs

Southern Metropolitan Region

• Lead candidate - Clifford Hayes MP

> Other candidates

Eastern Victoria Region

• Lead candidate - Sophie Paterson

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

• Lead candidate - Jack Corcoran

Northern Metropolitan Region

• Lead candidate - Alison Pridham

Northern Victoria Region

• Lead candidate - Ian Chivers

South-Eastern Metropolitan Region

• Lead candidate - Brandon Hoult

Western Metropolitan Region

• Lead candidate - Bert Jessup

Western Victoria Region

• Lead candidate - Madeleine Wearne

Preferences (how to vote SAP)?

As an independent community movement, after you Vote 1 for Sustainable Australia Party, we ask that YOU consider deciding where to direct your own preferences.

You can and should decide your own preferences in all elections, if you want to.

Voting above the line is the simplest and easiest way to vote, however the SAP HTV card provides you with the choice to decide your own preferences by voting below the line, while still voting 1 Sustainable Australia Party:

Also see Kelvin's blog here outlining how to improve the Victorian Upper House voting system by removing the problematic regions and group voting ticket.

Should you wish to vote above the line, SAP distributes its preferences via the 'group voting ticket' taking into account the following considerations:

• Prioritising minor parties and independents
• An alignment of values and policies
• Whether the other party agrees to preference SAP
• Whether the party was generally respectful towards SAP in public commentary (for example, unfortunately two significant 'progressive left' parties made numerous disparaging misrepresentations regarding SAP in social media and/or the Victorian Parliament)
• Pragmatic considerations around the likelihood of getting a Clifford Hayes MP re-elected under this system
• Roughly divided between all three major parties (Labor, Liberal/National, Greens)

Postal vote application.

Apply for your postal vote here.