u/sleepykooka

The 2025 election, held using single transferable vote, saw the re-election of Labor Prime Minister Jim Chalmers, who held together his tenuous 77-seat centre-left coalition consisting of the Federal Labor and Integrity caucuses, Green Left, Animal Justice, and the Moderates. Both Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor failed to unite the fractured right behind them, much less the swing votes of the centre, while the Socialists and Western Alliance refused to nominate a candidate.

Most parties are based on their IRL counterparts, with a few notable changes:

• WA Labor separated from the federal party to appeal to a significantly more parochial electorate than OTL, with the separatist Western Alliance (unsubtly based on the Bloc Quebecois) also strong in the state
• Green Left are more left-populist and less environmentalist than the OTL Greens.
• The Moderates and Alternative are based on the OTL teal independents and Turnbull Liberals
• The Conservatives represent the growing populist tendency in the OTL Liberals, while the ITL Liberals are mostly restricted to the traditional conservatives.

Caucuses are parliamentary groups designed to make procedure simpler - member parties usually cooperate loosely but mostly act and vote independently.