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The Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) is a
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in Australia, formed in May 2015. Bearing the name of its founder,
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Jacqui Lambie Jacquiline Louise Lambie (born 26 February 1971) is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She is a Senator for Tasmania since 2019, and was previously a Senator from 2014 to 2017. Lambie, an ...
, it has served as the political vehicle for the former
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. The JLN was formed to allow Lambie to re-contest her Senate seat at the 2016 federal election, after she resigned from the
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in November 2014. It gained 8.3% of the Senate popular vote in Tasmania in
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, slightly increasing its vote share to 8.9% at the 2019 election. The JLN also fielded candidates for the 2018 Tasmanian state election. The party's political positions reflect Lambie's own stances, generally presenting a
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orientation. The JLN has maintained
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support for
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" battlers", especially welfare recipients. Early in her political career, Lambie promoted firm
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sentiments, first in opposition to
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, and more recently about supposed " Chinese foreign interference". In an interview with
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in 2018, Lambie distanced herself from her previous views on Sharia law, stating she did not want to "cause division", and was influenced by "a previous advisor that was really driving that in". The party also maintains strong support for members of the armed services, owing to Lambie's own experience with the ADF. The JLN has a prioritised regional focus on Tasmania, where the party draws virtually all of its support from. In the 2022 federal election, the party was successful in electing a second party member
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into the Senate, increasing its parliamentary composition to two senators for the first time.


Policies

While announcing the formation of the party, Lambie revealed the party's 12 "core beliefs", including establishing a national apprentice, trade and traineeship system incorporating both the Australian Defence Force and
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s, dedicated Indigenous seats in parliament, and supporting the introduction of a carbon tax.


Royal commission into veteran suicide

In response to a
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petition organised by Julie-Ann Finney, whose son David Finney took his own life after a crippling battle with post-traumatic stress injury, Lambie has called for a royal commission into veteran suicide. The Morrison Government announced their intention to appoint a
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to inquire into the deaths by suicide of serving and former ADF members. Lambie criticised the Government's plan in a dissenting report, noting that "The families of veterans who have taken their own lives support a Royal Commission. The institutions who are being blamed for those suicides support a National Commissioner." On 8 July 2021 a
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in Australia was established.


Political donations

Lambie introduced a bill to the Australian Senate in February 2020 that proposes to tighten political donations laws. The bill seeks to amend current laws that permit political donations under $14,300 to not be disclosed. Lambie has proposed lowering this threshold to $2,500. The bill also proposes to introduce electoral expenditure accounts for organisations that run political campaigns. This will compel parties and others to disclose the source of any money they spend on their electoral campaigns.


Australian manufacturing

In early 2020, Lambie started a campaign to support Australian manufacturing with concerns about Australia's reliance on foreign imported products; she believes these concerns are a threat to Australia's economic sovereignty; magnified with the advent of COVID-19.


Foreign interference

Lambie has said on her website "It’s about time that the people in Parliament woke up to China’s attempts to infiltrate our economy and our democracy." Her concerns are echoed by Duncan Lewis, formerly the Director-General of Security at
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.


Taxation

Upon its application to register as a political party in 2015, it was described that the party would "favour the introduction of a
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".


Electoral history

At the 2016 federal election, the Jacqui Lambie Network fielded 10 candidates for the
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(three each in Tasmania and New South Wales, and two each in Queensland and Victoria) but no candidates for seats in the
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.


Federal Parliament


Tasmanian Parliament


References

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