About the
Independent
Front.
The Independent Front is a non-partisan policy institute. It exists because Australia's two-party system — augmented by the Greens and the Nationals — has produced a generation of policy that has hollowed out household incomes, abandoned manufacturing, surrendered foreign policy to alliance politics, and left the climate commitment underfunded and overwritten with industry-killing detail. The Front's policies replace that drift with a single, fully-costed alternative.
What the Front is, and is not
The Front does not run candidates. It does not collect membership fees. It is unpaid. It declares no conflicts of interest.
What the Front does is write the policies — and then make those policies available to anyone who wants to govern with them. Independent candidates running on local issues are the natural carriers. Most independents win because they are credible on a particular thing — a waterway, a hospital, a road, a school — but lose ground in the closing weeks of a campaign because they have no answer on tax, healthcare, immigration, defence. The Front fills that gap.
A candidate can stay focused on the issue that brought them to public life, defer to the Front's positions on the issues outside their pet topic, and arrive in parliament aligned with other independents who have done the same.
On the federation
The platform's structural position is that the federal role in Australian society is constitutionally small. Many of the bureaucracies that have accumulated since the 1970s sit in parallel with state bureaucracies that already cover the same ground — federal education beside state education, federal health beside state health, federal disability services beside state disability services. The overlap is the source of the cost, the friction, and the unclear accountability that defines federal–state relations as they stand. The platform removes the overlap by returning each function to a single tier. Education, justice administration, disability services, school and hospital operations — returned to the states. What remains federal — defence, foreign affairs, tax, currency, the constitutional core — is consolidated in the ACT. National standards are set centrally; operational delivery is local.
Contact
The Front is available, openly, to consult with any independent candidate who wants to adopt these policies. Open the consultation form or email outreach@independentfront.com.