The Arts Party | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Barry Keldoulis |
| Party Secretary | PJ Collins |
| Party Agent | Daniel Whitely |
| Founded | August 2014 |
| Dissolved | June 2019 |
| Headquarters | Kingsford, New South Wales |
| Ideology | Progressivism Humanism Environmentalism Increased funding for public broadcasting and the arts |
| Colours | Purple |
| Website | |
| http://www.artsparty.org/ | |
The Arts Party was a political party in Australia inspired by the importance of the arts and creative action. The party voluntarily deregistered on 25 June 2019. [1]
The Australian party was founded in October 2013 by two Sydney-based artists, PJ Collins and Nicholas Gledhill, [2] and registered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in August 2014. [3] [4] Money was raised for the party's registration through a crowd-funding campaign. [5]
Two Arts Party members stood as independent candidates at the 2015 Queensland state election, as the party had not been registered in time to contest the election. [6] Later in the year, the party's leader, PJ Collins, stood as an ungrouped Legislative Council candidate at the 2015 New South Wales state election. [7]
The first official Arts Party candidate was Lou Pollard in the 2015 North Sydney by-election, [8] who came eighth in a field of 13 candidates.
The Arts Party fielded seven candidates for the House of Representatives and thirteen senate candidates across all states in the 2016 federal election. [9] Once again, the entire campaign was financed through a crowd-funding campaign. [10]
The House of Representatives candidates were Anthony Ackroyd in the electorate of Wentworth (NSW), [11] Shea Caplice in the electorate of Warringah (NSW), [12] Tim Sanderson in the electorate of Franklin (Tasmania), [13] Christopher Gordon in the electorate of Bennelong (NSW), [14] Sally Baillieu in the electorate of Dunkley (Victoria), [15] Stephen Beck in the electorate of Longman (Queensland) [16] and Andrew Charles Tyrrell in the electorate of Petrie (Queensland). [17]
In voting for the Senate, the party ranked nationally 28th out of 55 parties, based on first preference votes by group, [18] polling 0.27% of first preferences nationwide.
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