Gerard Rennick People First Party
https://peoplefirstparty.au/

* Headed by a Liberal party senator who left the party last year. An accountant
  with a farming background, from Queensland.

* Advocate for small government by consolidating departments, and reduced
  spending on benefits to beaurocrats and politicians. Also dropping any
  multicultural or climate change departments and subsidies on renewables.
  They're more detailed on this than some, but still pretty vague and
  aspirational.

* Make superannuation voluntary, which I approve of in principle since I like
  to think most people aren't too stupid to manage their own money. But still
  I struggle to believe that the cost of paying pensions wouldn't increase
  with voluntary superannuation.

* After their policies on shrinking government departments, it turns out they
  want a government-owned bank (re)established. As usual for keeping physical
  branches open and providing better deals on home loans. Also insurance, which
  would be a big spend now since climate change is making many houses
  uneconomical to insure for reasonable fees. Plus they want to do health
  insurance which is in its own death spiral of increasing fees and
  correspondingly decrasing subscribers. Arguably these are good reasons for
  the government to step in, but this is an indirect approach to the core
  problems which can only help by throwing in lots of public money.

* Quite technical economic policies headlined by tax cuts for low-middle
  income families. Also simplifying taxation in various ways. They want to
  tax share trading to increase stability and offset abolishing payroll tax.
  Except for removing tax exemptions for indigionous groups and foreigners,
  most of it's about reducing tax on low-mid income individuals and businesses.

* They want to adopt funding infrastructure development (except renewable
  energy infrastructure) through government bonds issued by a national
  "Infrastructure Bank". Their theory is that this will enable the RBA to
  use this as a method for managing monetary policy, but surely at some
  increased risk to the success of major infrastructure projects. I really
  don't know how well this could work in practice, and they're not doing
  much to convince me it would.

* Their also worried that the Bank of England isn't storing Australia's
  gold reserve safely and want it kept over here. This is all new to me, and
  the depth of the practical and economic issues is far more than their single
  paragraph can overcome to enlighten me on the issue. This is really 'deep'
  stuff for a micro party though.

* "Ban Foreign Ownership of Infrastructure, Farmland and Housing". Pretty
  strong. Also want to ban short selling in the stock market, and various
  other tweaks there especially increased public control over superannuation
  funds.

* They hate renewables and want to drop the net zero emissions target.
  Hydroelectric power apparantly doesn't count as renewables to them though,
  they still like it.

* Another one that wants a referendum to add freedom of speech to the
  constitution. I still say it's a wrong and wasteful approach to the problem.
  They say "Recent events have seen governments curtail the right of
  Australians to express their views, even going so far as collaborating
  with foreign actors." where I'm not sure if they mean during the the
  pandemic or something else.

* They want to "Cut & Cap Immigration" but with industry-supporting
  exemptions to their stated ideal of zero immigration. Also deportinging
  illegal immigrants and immigrants convicted of a violent crime. It's
  laid out a bit too aggressively, but I like the general principle, and
  I am fond of no welfare benefits for 10 years to foreign-born citizens.

* Want to cut down on new native title claims by aboriginal groups, and remove
  all the Welcome to Country stuff (presumably just in government).

* They want to break up media ownership: "Media companies will be restricted
  to owning only two of the three major mediums for communication TV, Radio
  and Newspapers". They're sort of missing the point that ownership of those
  is consolidating because consumers are moving online instead. Yet they're
  not even counting the internet as a major medium for communication?

* Curiously I found no policies about national defence.

Well as a party formed around a break-away senator from one of the major
parties, the policies here are exceptionally detailed overall. But clearly
that's mainly within Gerard Rennick's field as an accountant. He also seems
to have written the economic policy such that you really need an accountancy
degree to unpack it. Overall it reads to me like he's much bigger on tax cuts
than on spending cuts, so I suspect it's a uniquely complicated model for a
commonly unworkable proposal from these micro parties. Still, he's blinded me
with enough economic jargon that I can't be sure. Away from economics his social
policies are commonly right-wing, probably reflecting the more right-wing
climate-change-denying faction of the Liberal party he left. While put off by
that aspect, the superannuation changes are somewhat attractive to me (albeit
as someone who's never had any superannuation income), and their particularly
extreme immigration policy is at least closer to my ideal that the open
floodgates of the major parties.

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