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LET LOOPING MIRA EXPERIENCE JOY AND WHIMSY…….

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I made two (2) doodles of ICAC au by @the-bitter-ocean !!!!!

Im so happy i finally have some ideas to draw about it!!!!!!!

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Further reading, November 28, 2025:

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Running where: NSW, QLD, WA

Prior reviews: None, this is a new party

You are absolutely never going to guess what this party’s policies are. There are no hints in their name that they might want a federal equivalent of NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption or that they would desire it soon. You will also be perplexed to know that the party’s policies extend to strengthened whistleblower protection, tighter rules on political donations and reporting procedures, or job appointments for former politicians.

Federal ICAC Now abbreviate their name as FIN, and they have really leaned into this: their logo is a shark fin and the background of their website is dark murky water. Yes, we get it FIN, you want “a federal ICAC with teeth”, a demand I have heard so often from so many people that it now just has a comical cadence to me. We do, though, need a federal ICAC, so I support the policy this party wants.

Long-time readers of this blog might recall that I am not at all a friend of single-issue parties, no matter how worthy the single issue might be. Parliament deals with an astonishing amount of business, and elected members need to be active participants—and known qualities to their electors—for a dizzying array of votes, select committees, and so on. FIN, to their credit, try to address this. They suggest that, if elected, their senator would scrutinise any legislation for corrupt content and for adherence to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If it fails either, FIN will vote against it; if it passes both, the issue will be referred to the party membership before making any decision. It is not clear exactly how this referral process will work or the extent to which it will bind the FIN senator.

I suspect FIN under-rate just how many bills are going to be referred to their members. Politics is a full-time job: we pay politicians to do the hard work on understanding and forming a view on all the procedural and low-profile legislation that keeps the country running. Having to run every bill past the party membership will be tedious and ineffective. They state that outside of their agenda against corruption, they will not obstruct the legislative agenda of a duly elected government, so I suspect a FIN senator would be a mostly harmless figure on the sidelines.

My recommendation: Give Federal ICAC Now a decent preference.