Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics/Parties

[edit] Major parties

Australia doesn't have any brilliant articles, but these could be a lot worse.

Australian Labor Party
- needs many lists to be split off into other articles
- needs information other than structure and history (i.e. better coverage of ideology)
Liberal Party of Australia
- has decent history and ideology coverage; doesn't have much else
- could be better organised
Family First Party
- generally covers almost all of the content, though could do with quite a rewrite, with a bit of NPOV treatment (i.e. Conservative Status --> Ideology, with the content reworked accordingly)
National Party of Australia
- barely passable, covers the content very concisely
- could do with a lot more on the history, and political role, ideology and support base could be split up into separate sections
Australian Progressive Alliance
- I don't think there's much more to be done here
Australian Greens
- Seems okay

Australian Democrats
- history section is good after about 1997, but is atrocious before that
- ideology section is poor, and it doesn't really have much else
One Nation Party
- needs sectioning
- doesn't mention splits at all (WA, Qld and NSW)
- doesn't mention anything about the party's ideology, support base, opposition, and the ramifications, both domestic and overseas, of the party
- history section needs tightening up some
Country Liberal Party
- needs a very great expansion
  - history
  - ideology
  - reasons for remaining separate from LP/NP

Australia First Party
- seems to cover most of what there is to say - could perhaps be expanded a bit
Christian Democratic Party of Australia
- covers most of the issues, though could do with a little bit of work - needs an infobox and doesn't mention Gordon Moyes
Citizens Electoral Council
- probably seems to be the best of the group, ironically - not much more to be added here
Communist Party of Australia (revived)
- reasonable, though it could do with some information about its electoral campaigns (number of seats run in, vote received, etc)
Democratic Labor Party
- looks basically good - there's room for improvement but it's far from the worst
Great Australians Party
- I think that's about all you could say about these guys
Nuclear Disarmament Party
- it's in decent shape, covering the history quite well, though it could still be expanded quite a bit
People Power Party
- not sure there's much more to say here
Shooters Party
- this could be expanded quite a bit, but it covers the core issues well enough

Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
- there's not much there - and what there has some nasty POV problems
Liberal Democratic Party of Australia
- very brief - was created as part of the libertarian POV wars, so needs some help
Liberals for Forests
- very short, barely discusses ideology or the effect of their preferences at all
National Action
- quite a few POV issues
Progressive Labour Party
- out of date; needs cleanup in general
Socialist Alliance (Australia)
- very short, considering how many candidates they run - much more could be said here
Socialist Party (Australia)
- could really do with some actual details of election results and numbers of candidates run - some of the claims read like hyperbole
Unity Party (Australia)
- quite a bit more could be said about their initial rise - they ran a lot of candidates in 1998