Election discernment

Elections coming up.
Top Tip:
Vote 1 for your preferred minor party, then 2 for your preferred major.
If the minor does not get in, your vote transfers to your 2nd preference. It's like voting twice.
So vote 1, then 2. There's a financial benefit for your minor party, if they get enough primary votes, they receive funding as a legitimate party according to how many primary votes they receive.
Plus primary votes are the only way a minor party representative can ever get in.

Party Foundations - Reference Points for Policies:
Ask each party, what document / values-set they refer to when making their policy decisions. Because those values will determine their policies, current & future.
In WA, the Australian Christians party answers openly that it’s the Judaeo-Christian tradition as found in the Bible.
For the Liberal Party, it's the "We Believe" statement of the Menzies era, which in turn was founded on Judaeo-Christian principles.
But when I asked WA Labor, I was told to "go look at the website," so I did:
Their current 2023 platform openly states that Labor is a “democratic socialist” party (p3p2. i.e. Platform page 3, paragraph 2.) Clearly, Labor's reference point is socialism, and unsurprisingly, woke ideologies flow from such self-referencing - i.e., permitting whatever is right in their own eyes - the words of people. [vs Bible on Socialism.]
What do I mean by socialism? A commitment to overthrow capitalism, private property rights, nuclear families, and church, which are viewed as obstacles to a utopia in which the "society" distributes the wealth (p3p4c. p5p16.). The core of socialism is atheistic, espoused by Karl Marx, and in turn Antonio Gramsci's long march through the institutions. [More on Socialism.]
Yep, that's WA Labor. They did start from different foundations, but gone are the days of Labor being Catholic unionists fighting for workers' rights. Now the unionists are a power block underwriting Labor's socialist program, and their political candidates are almost all professional politicians & lawyers with no other work experience - they are the elites. That's the way socialism goes, history supports Orwell's thesis in Animal Farm. "Christians" in the party are likely to be only nominally so, and WA Labor no longer engage with Christians or churches, claiming (a false understanding of) separation of church and state. Indeed our local Labor candidate preferenced Australian Christians last, and was often overheard ridiculing Christians to her team.
You can see Socialism throughout WA Labor's Platform:
- The platform often promotes State-controlled early childcare, within months of birth. (p10p11. p189p3.) [vs Bible on children.]
- Uses childcare, state schooling, public libraries & media to impose Labor's woke views of gender & sexual orientation upon kids to their confusion - and grooming (p39p126 &134.) [vs Bible on gender.]
Promotes more sex-change therapies even for children. (p41p136. p209p112,117,119,121.)
There are threats to parents who disagree with these ideologies, and religions are specified as a particular challenge to overcome (p39p128.) Funds will be withdrawn from non-complying institutions, with threats of litigation. (p35p110. &p40p131? &132.)
- Promotes & funds abortion whilst denying the babies' lives, and the reality of post-abortion trauma. (p215p3.) [vs Bible on abortion.]
- “Co-sovereignty” in the Uluru Statement is lauded despite being intrinsically divisive (p12p13.).
Policy coerces welcome to countries and acknowledgements upon every meeting. (p13p31&32. p193p10.)
Other race-based solutions will reinforce racial differences, rather than simply needs-based solutions. (eg p14p36. p17p47&48.) Critical Race Theory is obvious. [vs Bible on CRT.]
- Imposes Diversity, Equity, Inclusion over meritorious appointments. (p3p3. p5p18. p22p77c? p40p135. p41p140.) [vs Bible on DEI.]
- Labor's changes to the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 will increasingly impose these socialist values onto society, excluding Biblical morals & subjecting them to discrimination litigation. (p35p110.)
For this election, WA Labor were also specifically asked about, and came out strongly in support of, biological men in women's sports & safe spaces, euthanasia, enforcing vaccinations, removing religious protections for faith-based schools, & private rehab facilities.
Since the so-called “Enduring Values of Labor” include recent woke concepts such as DEI and CRT, it's clear that Labor’s values are not enduring, but drifting with the currents of human constructs, in this case Socialism. Labor is disconnected from the timeless foundation of God’s Word. This is not progressive but regressive. Labor is imposing its novel morality upon the public to the exclusion of Biblical views.

So look into it.
Ask all parties for their policies' reference point. Look for their foundations: God's Word? Or man's words? Then vote for The Firm Foundation.

[Update after polling closed (8/3/25):
At the polling location today I spoke with quite a few WA Labor volunteers who seemed unaware of the socialism, who lamented the drift away from Christian foundations, and spoke against wokeness. It seems many had no idea of their party's platform let alone foundations. How can this be? How common is this - an opportunity for the opposition? How we need an educated population!]

[Post script on Energy & Environment:
In WA Labor's Platform there are also paragraphs about Energy and Environment. Devotion to CO2 alarmism despite consistent over-estimation by their sources, and apparent ignorance of the materials' life-cycles associated with solar, wind, and batteries. (p51ff. p69ff. p94ff.) But since these are less directly related to Socialism, they are for another blog another day.]