Where the Legalise Cannabis Party stands — platform positions
8 position(s), each sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials (websites, platform documents, white papers) — never from media coverage. Where the party's own materials don't state a position, nothing is shown.
Economic nationalism party platform
The party's economic policy encourages farmers to cultivate hemp as a renewable, sustainable agricultural resource, proposes start-up assistance packages for hemp-based production and manufacturing industries, and states legalising and regulating cannabis would bring one of the nation's largest cash crops under the rule of law, creating jobs and economic growth in the formal economy.
Drugs & law and order party platform
The party proposes legal regulation of cannabis in three stages modelled on the ACT, treating cannabis similarly to alcohol and tobacco for labelling and advertising; adults could possess up to 50 grams, cultivate up to six plants per household and gift up to 50 grams socially, with commercial sale later phased in through small-scale state-licensed growers and retailers. It also calls for an immediate moratorium on arrests of cannabis consumers, expungement of historical personal-use cannabis criminal records, and outlawing police strip searches for personal-use cannabis, which it describes as a human rights violation.
First Nations & treaty party platform
The party states that cannabis prohibition leads to disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians, citing that one-third of adults in Australian jails are Aboriginal with higher proportions in youth detention, and calls for cannabis legalisation to break this cycle of criminalisation.
Housing & planning party platform
The party promotes hemp-based construction (hempcrete) as offering stronger, greener and fire-resistant homes, particularly valuable in bushfire-prone regions, framing it as a step toward tackling the housing crisis; it calls for hemp to be classified in the National Construction Code and for procurement and infrastructure contracts to consider industrial hemp in developments.
Health party platform
The party approaches cannabis regulation from a stated public health perspective prioritising the needs of patients and consumers, and its TGA Medical Cannabis Review submission calls for reduced regulatory barriers and support for local producers to lower medicinal cannabis prices and improve patient access; the party also argues that people with mental illness may be self-medicating with cannabis and that some cannabis compounds such as CBD may have therapeutic properties.
Transport & infrastructure party platform
The party advocates reforming drug-driving laws so roadside testing measures actual impairment rather than the mere presence of cannabis, argues current roadside drug testing does not make roads safer and penalises legal medicinal cannabis patients regardless of impairment, and calls for a legal driving defence for medicinal cannabis users.
Energy party platform
Legalise Cannabis Queensland's energy policy, published on the party site, positions industrial hemp as a cornerstone of bioenergy, sustainable construction and regenerative farming, with stated targets including over 10,000 jobs in hemp energy, construction and farming, a 50% reduction in energy-related carbon emissions compared to 2025 levels, and 250,000 hectares of degraded land restored using hemp-based regenerative practices.
Environment & water party platform
The party promotes industrial hemp for its environmental credentials, describing it as fast-growing, pest-resistant and requiring no herbicides, effective for carbon sequestration and soil restoration, and promotes hempcrete building material and hemp-based biodegradable bioplastics as alternatives to fossil-fuel plastics that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Compare with other parties: Economic nationalism · Drugs & law and order · First Nations & treaty · Housing & planning · Health · Transport & infrastructure · Energy · Environment & water.
Who donates to the Legalise Cannabis Party?
Disclosed total: $659,990 AUD · 6 disclosed donor(s)
AEC detailed receipts (donations above the disclosure threshold only). Party-owned entities and branch transfers appear tagged.
| Donor | Amount (AUD) |
|---|---|
| Keldoulis Investments Pty Limited investment vehicle An Australian private investment company associated with share trader Robert (Rob) Keldoulis. It is recorded on the AEC Transparency Register as a political donor. | $402,000 |
| Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union union The Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union (PPTEU) is an Australian trade union covering plumbers, gasfitters, drainers and pipefitters; it forms the plumbing division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU). | $150,000 |
| Green Australia Wholesale Pty Ltd company Green Australia Wholesale Pty Ltd is a Victorian private company (ABN 12 651 811 200, registered 2022, also trading as Cannabate and Easykind) operating in the alternative/plant-medicine wholesale healthcare sector. | $45,000 |
| Robert Keldoulis | $22,990 |
| Nimbin Hemp Embassy | $20,000 |
| Nimbin Hemp Incorporated other The Nimbin Hemp Embassy (incorporated as Nimbin Hemp Inc.) is a non-profit advocacy organisation in Nimbin, NSW, founded in 1992, that campaigns for cannabis law reform and educates the public about hemp and cannabis, funding itself through a hemp products shop. | $20,000 |
Source: AEC Transparency Register
Political compass placement
Economic -2, social -8 (medium confidence) — researched party-level placement, not a score computed from this database. Single-issue party whose secondary policies lean mildly left economically; the social axis is strongly libertarian, built entirely around drug-law reform, expunging convictions and civil liberties.
Members & candidates on record
- Rachel Payne — Legalise Cannabis Party · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Council · South-Eastern Metropolitan (VIC) · incumbent
- David Ettershank — Legalise Cannabis Party · Victoria · Victorian Legislative Council · Western Metropolitan (VIC) · incumbent
- Jeremy Buckingham — Legalise Cannabis Party · New South Wales · New South Wales Legislative Council · Statewide (NSW) · incumbent
- Brian Walker — Legalise Cannabis Party · Western Australia · Western Australian Legislative Council · Statewide (WA) · incumbent