Ban Fracking Fix Crime Protect Water, formerly the 1 Territory Party, is a registered political party in Australia's Northern Territory. It was registered with the Northern Territory Electoral Commission on 18 November 2015.[1]
Ban Fracking Fix Crime Protect Water | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Braedon Earley |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Ideology | Green liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Area |  Northern Territory |
The party's founder is Braedon Earley, a former president of the Country Liberal Party (CLP), and more recently a member of the Palmer United Party. Another former CLP president, Sue Fraser-Adams, is also a member. Earley announced his intention to establish a new party in June 2015, although its name was not announced until later. It described its ideology as "straight down the middle." The party required its members to undergo psychological and drug testing before being allowed to run, and adhere to a strict code of conduct. Earley said that anyone who turned into "a hubris idiot" would be expelled in short order.[2][3]
The party's first announced policy was to implement a ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).[4]
At the 2016 Northern Territory election, 1 Territory ran candidates in thirteen out of the 25 Legislative Assembly seats, with only the CLP and the Labor Party running more candidates.[5] Prior to the election, it was suggested that 1 Territory would primarily attract disaffected CLP voters.[6] The party won 3.6% of the vote, and no seats in the assembly.
References
edit- ^ Register of Political Parties in the Northern Territory Archived 31 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine – NTEC. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Fred McCue (5 June 2015). "Candidates for new political party in Northern Territory will have to undertake psychological testing" – NT News. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ "New NT political party to have 'no hubris idiot' policy". 105.7 ABC Darwin. 23 June 2016.
- ^ Emma Masters (24 July 2015). "Proposed new political party in the Northern Territory reveals first policy: 'say no to fracking'" – ABC News. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ 2016 Territory Election Results Archived 30 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
- ^ Rolf Gerritsen, "State of the states: how local politics in the Northern Territory could muddy the federal vote", The Conversation, 17 June 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.