Talk:Bullet Train for Australia

The party is not now the "Like Canberra" party. The ACT branch (in territory politics) claims to have renamed, but the national branch doesn't. (Bullet Train for Australia is federally registered and ran candidates in two other states.)

Per the ACT Register of Political Parties, "Bullet Train for Canberra" was deregistered entirely on 13 August 2013, and Like Canberra was registered on 28 June 2016.

The Canberra Times says Like Canberra is "related unofficially" to Bullet Train for Australia, and there is apparently quite a bit of drama about to what the extent the parties are linked.

tl;dr - the article needs to explain this, but "Like Canberra" is absolutely in no way the federal party renamed! The Drover's Wife (talk) 03:37, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Ah, okay, I didn't realise that. Thanks for pointing it out. Their website is misleading. Do you think that they should have separate articles? I have no opinion on this. Orthogonal1 (talk) 09:43, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

I feel that that's probably the best way to go: we have articles on most of the other territory parties (e.g. Canberra Community Voters), and it no longer clearly fits in this article. (I had no idea there was any link at all until I saw the above article a few days ago.) The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:02, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

I made a short Like Canberra article to get you started. It pretty much just uses the reference above though. I hope someone else will expand it. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:30, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried to expand it a bit, but trying to explain some of their positions got a bit bizarre: on the light rail project that's the major issue of the election, they released a whole policy about the bullet train terminating outside the city and intersecting with light rail, then opposed it entirely, and then sat on the fence, all within a year. I had to leave out the first part because I couldn't even explain it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 16:10, 14 October 2016 (UTC)