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Our story and mission
The Fusion Party Australia was formed in 2021 through an amalgamation of the Science Party, Pirate Party, Secular Party, Vote Planet, and Climate Change Justice Party. These five experienced political parties, each with deep special interests, fused to form something more powerful than the sum of their parts. In April 2025, Fusion expanded again, joining with the Australian Progressives and Democracy First and contesting the 2025 federal election under the ballot name FUSION | Planet Rescue | Whistleblower Protection | Innovation. More about the party can be found here.
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Fusion is an entirely volunteer-run Australian political party formed in 2021 from the merger of five minor parties: the Science Party, Pirate Party, Secular Party, Vote Planet and Climate Change Justice Party. In 2025 it merged again with the Australian Progressives and Democracy First, fielding 24 candidates for the House of Representatives and Senate under the ballot name FUSION | Planet Rescue | Whistleblower Protection | Innovation. Fusion has contested federal elections in 2022 and 2025, and the 2023 Aston by-election.
Party facts
Fusion has around 3,271 members nationally, including almost 800 in Victoria alone, and is entirely volunteer-run.
The parties that formed Fusion have been contesting elections since 2010. They have run candidates in both houses of federal parliament in NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA and TAS. In the 2019 federal election these parties collectively won 76,861 votes across 4 states.
In 2022, Fusion ran 19 candidates across NSW, QLD, SA, WA and VIC in its first federal election, winning 51,676 Senate votes (0.34%) and 13,319 House votes (0.09%) nationally, with a best result of 2.16% in the Division of Dobell.
Fusion candidate Owen Miller contested the 2023 Aston by-election, winning 2,637 votes (2.89%).
In 2025, running jointly with the Australian Progressives and Democracy First, Fusion fielded 24 candidates in its second federal election, winning 46,007 Senate votes (0.29%) and 14,374 House votes (0.09%) nationally.
Our team
Drew Wolfendale, President. An Adelaide engineer turned policy lead, Drew led development of the values framework that underpinned Fusion's formation and ran for the Senate (SA) in 2025.
Owen Miller, Spokesperson. A tech entrepreneur and AI advocate, Owen was Fusion's 2023 Aston by-election candidate, ran for Wills in 2025, and now hosts the My First Party podcast.
The full party leadership team is listed here.
Press releases
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03 Mar 2026 Press release: Government Luddites Are Suppressing Transparency
12 Oct 2025 Press release: Fusion Party Victoria is going for state registration
27 Aug 2025 Press release: Fusion Statement on Police Murders & Terror Attacks on Australian Jewish Community
27 Jun 2025 Press release: A new name for a new brand
29 Mar 2023 Press release: Fusion Party candidate Owen Miller and Aleph Melbourne support Elimination of Discrimination
28 Feb 2023 Press release: Fusion Party announces tech entrepreneur and AI advocate Owen Miller as candidate for 2023 Aston by-election
11 Feb 2022 Press release: Fusion — A Fresh Threat to LNP and Labor Votes
Press coverage
10 Sep 2025 'Wikinews interviews Australian Fusion Party President Drew Wolfendale', Wikinews
06 Mar 2023 'Fusion Party candidate Owen Miller wants to see government embrace technology for the betterment of society', Star Mail
24 Apr 2022 Ask Me Anything (AMA), Reddit
11 Feb 2022 Radio interview, The Wire
19 Mar 2022 Podcast interview, New Politics
Press contact
Please direct all press related enquiries to [email protected].
For urgent matters, you might similarly like to call our party phone number, 0490 134 827.
Social Media
- https://www.facebook.com/FusionPartyAus
- https://twitter.com/FusionPartyAus is the party's official X (formerly Twitter) accounts
- https://www.instagram.com/fusionpartyaus
- https://www.youtube.com/c/fusionpartyaus
- https://bsky.app/profile/fusionparty.org.au
- https://mastodon.au/@FusionPartyAus
- https://www.tiktok.com/@fusionpartyaus
- https://github.com/Fusion-Party-Aus
Quotes
Referring to the Party Registration Act 2021: "[The major parties] are losing ground to us every election, and instead of doing better to win back the voters, they're outlawing the competition. It's an insult to every voter who wants change. We're here to lead and represent our communities where the big parties have failed."
- Andrea Leong, Fusion Party President and candidate for the Senate NSW, 2022
"This election we're building something bigger than we would have achieved individually and it's exciting to be a part of that."
- Andrea Otto, Vote Planet President, 2022
"We've become such a threat to both Liberal and Labor that they decided to wipe us off the ballot. They might regret changing the rules."
- Miles Whiticker, Pirate Party President, 2022
"Our parties have always been closely aligned, but changing the registration requirements brought half of the registered parties to the table to discuss the formation of an alliance. We now have the potential to become bigger than the Greens."
- John Perkins, Secular Party President, 2022
"We are gunning for strategic seats in this election to cause a lot of trouble for both major parties, and now we have the people to do it."
- Petar Johnson, Climate Change Justice Party President, 2022
Photos
Drew Wolfendale (President) · Owen Miller (Spokesperson)
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