Sovereign Australia
Australia and Australians first, for a Sovereign Australia.
Polling day is Saturday 29 August 2026. Early voting opens Monday 17 August, and most people in this electorate vote early.
Sixteen candidates are on the paper and it is compulsory full-preferential voting, so every square gets a number. On the ballot he is printed as MURRELL, Brett — last of the sixteen, with no party name beside it, because the party’s state registration was not completed in time.
Look for the last name on the paper, and put a 1 next to it. Then number every other square.
The government tells the people the truth and hides nothing. Full transparency — the real state of things, the real spending, the real decisions, open to anyone, every time.
Government business done in the open, representing the people — not donors, not lobbyists, not mates. No backroom deals, no greasy palms, no favours: every contract, every dollar, every decision above board. A government that keeps the law it makes and cannot be bought.
Crimes are prosecuted and everyone is held to account — in government and on the street alike. Bad decisions, bad behaviour and broken laws carry consequences, and the whistleblowers who expose them are fully backed. A clear warning to anyone who knowingly cheats or breaks the law: no cover-ups, no one above the rules, no soft touch.
Twelve issues, in the order they matter. Every fix is drawn from the party’s published policy — the pages are linked from The Platform below.
Foreign governments shape Australian policy through lobbying, donations and sponsored travel, and none of it is registered in a way the public can check. Militarily, AUKUS Pillar 1 as structured commits $268–368 billion over thirty years for three to five submarines, the first not deliverable for fifteen to twenty years.
A Royal Commission into foreign influence with coercive powers — one standard, no ally exempt, the same test applied to every externally funded attempt to shape Australian policy. Corporate and foreign political donations banned. AUKUS repositioned, not cancelled: the alliance and the technology sharing kept, the submarine procurement reviewed on a published cost assessment, same workforce and shipyards, redirected output.
Australia imports 80 to 90 per cent of its refined transport fuel on ships it does not own, and pays some of the developed world’s highest power prices on the best solar resources on earth. Coal plants are closing to a political timetable rather than an engineering one.
Build the way China did — government plans and builds the infrastructure over decades, then price does the switching. Continental desert solar, an HVDC spine and electric freight on one corridor, to a legislated maximum of 10c/kWh for households and small business by the end of the first term. It is a cap written into law with a deadline, not a target. Build whatever delivers that price — nothing excluded by category, nothing protected by it. Firm coal and gas capacity where that is what holds ten cents, retiring when undercut. No legislated closure dates. Australian oil drilled and refined here, the 90-day reserve rebuilt. Net zero arrives as an outcome of the build, not as a target.
Government spending, contracts and decisions are published late, in aggregate, or after a request. Twenty-two federal departments, no live public record of where the money goes, and no forum with the power to compel evidence on the things that have gone wrong.
The three doctrines, made operational. A People’s Portal publishing government spending and agency KPIs live, with every contract over $10,000 published within 30 days. Government restructured to 7 departments. And Royal Commissions — into foreign influence, media ownership, COVID-19 decision-making, local government and the rest, each with coercive powers and published findings.
The world spends nearly US$2.9 trillion a year on its militaries, rising fastest in this region, because every nation arms for safety and every neighbour reads that arming as a threat. Australia’s share of it is the $368 billion committed to AUKUS. Meanwhile the Asia-Pacific produces about 60 per cent of world output and two-thirds of its growth, and no nation in it can feed, fuel or pay itself without the others.
The war cannot be won, so peace is the rational move. Trade has tied the region together so tightly that a war between its nations ruins every side at once — not a balance of terror but mutually assured dependence, which is what ended Europe’s thousand-year habit of fighting itself after 1945. Take war off the board as a move that can ever pay, and every dispute left — a border, a fishing ground, a sea lane, an island — has to be settled at a table. The prize is a union of sovereign neighbours: not a superstate, but nations keeping their own governments and identities and working together because together they are safer and richer. Australia brings what the region needs and few of its members hold — energy by cable, education, a society already made of the region, and a neutral convener that is no one’s base and no one’s client, which is the only country that gets asked to broker the hard talks. And the discipline that keeps it honest: the prize stands on self-reliance and a real defence, never instead of them. Trade is the carrot; being unstranglable is the insurance.
A UN Commission of Inquiry found in September 2025 that Israel is responsible for genocide in Gaza — four of the five acts in the Genocide Convention, with intent established from the statements of Israeli officials. Australia says it exports no weapons to Israel while remaining inside the F-35 supply chain.
Recognition of Palestine on the 1967 Green Line, with East Jerusalem as its capital, alongside Israel within secure borders. Israel answers at the International Court of Justice, and Australia says so. Every military export suspended — weapons, parts, sub-components, explosives and dual-use goods — while the finding is unresolved. Settlements unlawful, targeted sanctions on those driving them, and Israel to prosecute its own settlers.
Homelessness has accumulated for two decades while housing got more expensive every year. Crisis accommodation is a motel room rather than a home, and the people hardest to house — the chronically addicted and the severely mentally ill — cycle through emergency departments and police cells instead.
Housing first as a policy, not a slogan. Country Care Communities — permanent housing with health, employment and community support attached. Granny flats as-of-right nationally. Corridor housing at $150,000–$250,000 on Crown land, rent-to-buy. Healing Centres to take the chronically addicted, severely mentally ill and chronically homeless off the street. And two new lawful ways to build: community living on shared rural land and fixed-term conversion of empty commercial buildings, each with a supported tier.
Australia takes about $61 billion a year from extracting its ore and charges gas and oil exports about 4.7 per cent while Queensland coal pays upwards of 20. Meanwhile new businesses are taxed from their first year, and two industries the country could run lawfully and tax are run by criminals instead.
A Resource Extraction Levy on sale value replacing eight state royalty regimes, the PRRT and company tax on extraction — $103.7 billion a year against $63.9 billion today, split 73 per cent Commonwealth, 25 per cent the state, 2 per cent Traditional Owners. Cannabis legalised at 18, licensed and taxed, with an Australian growing industry. Tobacco and vapes brought back inside the lawful market. Zero income tax for a new business in years one to three, no BAS under $2 million, and an 80 per cent loan guarantee that does not take the family home. And 6c/kWh industrial power at corridor maturity — the input cost that decides whether anything is made here.
The tax-free threshold has sat at $18,200 since 2012, so every year of inflation since has been a tax rise nobody legislated. Power, rent, groceries and childcare have all risen faster than wages.
Lower the input cost, not the symptom. Energy is a cost inside every other price — fuel is about 30 per cent of a freight operator’s costs and every item in a supermarket arrived on a truck — so cheaper power and fuel lower the whole basket rather than one bill. A rebate moves money once and changes no price. Then: a $50,000 tax-free threshold, legislated as the destination and stepped toward as each surplus target is met. 10c/kWh power — a legislated maximum by the end of the first term, not an aspiration. $0 GP visits with bulk billing restored. $10 an hour childcare, universal. Rents capped at CPI plus 1 per cent, and supermarket margins monitored and published. Relief at the source of the cost, not a rebate on the bill.
The health system pays for illness after it arrives and almost nothing to stop it arriving. Australians cannot readily find out what is in their food, their water or their air, and the country treats mental health as a separate system rather than part of the same one.
$0 GP visits and a 95 per cent regional Medicare rebate, so distance stops being a fee. Green Zones — community health and connection centres, ten in the first term. 10 free psychology sessions a year. Know what is in it: mandatory plain disclosure of ingredients and additives, with the testing published. And environmental limits enforced and monitored publicly — protect, restore, rewild, with one billion trees.
Net overseas migration reached 557,000 in the year to June 2023 — the highest ever — while one home was built for every 3.2 arrivals. Behind the headline number sit 2.9 million temporary visa holders, about one in nine people here, counted nowhere in it.
A full review, full transparency, and a skills-based system. Net migration at 160,000 a year, in three streams, with the humanitarian commitment maintained. English and a substantive civic values assessment restored. Five years outside the big three capitals, and five years of self-sufficiency before welfare. The temporary system brought inside the cap. And the numbers stop being an annual argument: the Digital Australia Authority publishes migration data live, the same way it publishes every federal contract over $10,000 and every departmental budget line — arrivals, departures, visas on issue by subclass, and the running total against the target, searchable by any Australian on the day it changes.
The methamphetamine trade is not a social phenomenon, it is a product line — manufactured, imported and distributed by organised networks with supply chains, financiers and lawyers. Australia also loses about $3 billion a year to scams, and courts are slow enough that a charge is not a deterrent.
Name the enemy. Organised crime treated as a national security priority, with the AFP and Border Force resourced accordingly and asset seizure strengthened so the proceeds are confiscated completely. Mandatory minimum sentencing for commercial supply, escalating with scale, with no suspended sentences. A National Scam Prevention Framework making banks and platforms liable to reimburse victims within 30 days when they fail to meet prevention standards. And court time-to-hearing published, with the pipeline funded end to end.
Australia banned under-16s from ten platforms in December 2025. Six months on, three independent measurements found most of them still using the platforms — and the ones who got back in did so on adult accounts, with every youth protection switched off. The government’s answer was to double the maximum fine to $99 million.
Repeal the age ban. In its place, require the platforms to build one national parental control system — one standard, one enrolment, one dashboard — through which a parent sets what their own child can reach, for how long and at what hours. Built with the companies, not against them: the obligation is to build and connect, not to police children. And AI taught in classrooms, with the teachers funded to teach it, rather than left to children unsupervised.
The twelve above are the national programme. These three are what this campaign, in this electorate, is about.
HMAS Stirling on Garden Island, just north of this electorate, hosts Submarine Rotational Force — West, and Henderson is being built out for submarine work. Nuclear-powered boats, their maintenance and their waste are coming to this stretch of coast. This community was not asked.
AUKUS repositioned, not cancelled. The alliance and the technology sharing are real and valuable. Pillar 1 as currently structured commits $268–368 billion over thirty years for three to five boats, the first not deliverable for fifteen to twenty years. The fix is a published cost assessment, an open review of the alternatives, and a decision made on the numbers rather than on the announcement — same workforce, same shipyards, redirected output.
Redirected output means work, here. The Australian Marine Complex at Henderson is named in the party’s programme as one of three national heavy-fabrication centres for the continental corridor and the subsea export network — the cable-lay and pipeline-lay vessels, the landing stations, the hulls. That is civilian work on the same wharf, built by the same trades, and it does not stop when a procurement cycle ends. Locally: the waste plan published before the work proceeds, and the host community consulted in the open.
People are sleeping in cars and tents across Rockingham and Mandurah while the state housing waitlist grows. Crisis accommodation is full, and there is no published local count of how many are waiting or for how long.
Housing first as a policy, not a slogan. The party’s community and human welfare policy answers this directly: Country Care Communities — permanent housing with health, employment and community support attached; granny flats as-of-right nationally, secondary dwellings without council approval; corridor housing at $150,000–$250,000 on Crown land, rent-to-buy; and Healing Centres to take the chronically addicted, severely mentally ill and chronically homeless off the street. The two housing policies supply the rest — Housing — Country and Housing — City, each with a supported tier. Locally: publish the waitlist and the rough-sleeper count monthly.
This is a mortgage-belt commuter electorate, so it pays for distance twice: in fuel and in time, on limited road and rail capacity, with state charges on power, water and vehicles on top of it.
What government does control here is the tax on the first $50,000 of income, the cost of getting to work, and the price of power. The answer is the $50,000 tax-free threshold nationally, the station locally, and energy infrastructure that lowers the input cost rather than subsidising the bill.
The government, re-architected: 7 departments, plus the Digital Australia Authority.
The digital layer running across all seven departments — data, services, and the People’s Portal.
Modern Movement Australia — sister site
Sovereign Australia backs a strong safety net — and is honest about what pays for it. A country that grows things, makes things and processes things can afford to look after its people. A country that does not, cannot.
So we open markets, clear away what stands between an Australian and the thing they are trying to build, and create the work and the ownership that move people off support and into a wage or a business of their own.
That is not a left or a right position. It is an order of operations. Industry first, so the country can afford the rest.