Something is working.
Our social accounts more than doubled in a single week. A post was boosted by the UN. The Reclaim strategy is delivering. Here's what Q2 built, and what it sets up for Q3.
Victoria: the application is lodged.
We filed our application with the Victorian Electoral Commission to register as Fusion Party Victoria, under the ballot name Reignite Democracy, for the November state election.
We didn't get there alone. The Australian Progressives have joined up with us again for this election, and their help navigating the VEC's requirements made the difference. This is what a real coalition looks like: organisations with enough common ground to make each other stronger.
We're waiting on VEC confirmation. When it comes, Victorians will have an evidence-forward option on the November ballot that isn't managed decline from the majors or scapegoating from the right.
Reclaim: the proof is in the numbers.
The question we get most: does sharpening the public message mean losing the wonkery? It doesn't. The costed policy, cited sources, and named mechanisms stay. What Reclaim adds is a frame that connects the frustration people are already feeling to the structural problems actually causing it.
The rollout is underway. The Reignite Democracy Victorian campaign site is the first place to see the full visual identity in action, and formal ratification is happening this week. The results are already there: more than 2x social media growth in a single week, and a post boosted by the UN.
Drew wrote the Reclaim strategy. Mofosyne built the social media pipeline from 24 May, seeding the algorithm with link aggregations. Then on 16 June, Ethan posted formal government submissions on housing, transport, and urban design (one of them cites the LXRP urban design standards by name) and queued the social posts in the Reclaim frame. Those became our highest-performing posts to date. Policy-wonky at the source. Reclaim in the packaging.
That proved the model works on anything. Take any government announcement. Find the structural failure underneath it. Name who's borrowing the money to build something and who walks away with the upside. That's the post. Mofosyne and Ethan now run every link aggregation through the same process. They call it "The Meat Grinder": if we're not using the news cycle to pick a specific fight with the status quo, we're just white noise.
You can feed it. Drop an article in the #news-posting channel on our Discord, with or without commentary, and the best ones go into the pipeline. If you're reading something that makes you angry at the right thing, send it through.
Socially free. Economically serious.
On right-wing populism.
Right-wing populism is polling up and getting more media oxygen than the numbers warrant. The anger behind those polls is real. Cost of living, housing, wages: these mechanisms are broken and people can feel it. The mistake isn't the anger. The mistake is pointing that anger at people instead of the system that produced the problem.
We're not going to out-shout that. We're going to out-explain it. With receipts. A grievance that names a contract clause is fixable. A grievance that names a group of people corrodes everything it touches and fixes nothing. That's the argument. And for the first time, we have the distribution to make it at scale.
What members are angry about.
We asked what's broken in your area this quarter. Two threads stood out. Adelaide members flagged CBD office towers going up over vacant office stock while housing supply lags, and transit expansion in new suburbs getting deferred until the population "justifies" it, locking people into car dependency before a bus or train ever arrives. Members in Melbourne's growth corridors described the same pattern in miniature: speed humps that only cover a third of the lane and streets with no lighting at all, in suburbs that got residents before anyone funded the safety infrastructure that should have shipped with them.
Different states, same mechanism: infrastructure funding that waits for a population threshold instead of leading it. We're folding both into our transport and urban planning advocacy heading into Q3.
Submissions.
This quarter we lodged formal submissions to state and local government bodies on housing, transport, and public contracting. Citations and cost figures, not slogans. The full list is now live at fusionparty.org.au/submissions_and_reports.
EOFY: $5,000 raised. FY27 target: $6,000.
The 2025–26 fundraiser beat its target. Every dollar came from people who believe the argument is worth making. For 2026–27 we're targeting $6,000 for the year, aiming to hit it by Q4. That's what it actually costs to build the capacity to run a Victorian campaign properly.
This party runs on members. If you've been following along and haven't joined yet, Q3 is a good moment. The Victorian campaign is about to go live, and membership is how you count.
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Two other things you can do right now.
1. Tell one person. Think of one person who's angry at the right things but hasn't found us yet. A one-liner that works: “They’re the party that points at the contract, not the person.” Send them the link. That's the whole ask.
2. Feed The Meat Grinder. Drop an article in #news-posting on Discord. No membership required. If it makes you angry at the right thing, it goes in the pipeline.
What Q3 looks like.
VEC confirmation lands and the Victorian campaign goes public. Candidates announced. The Reclaim social momentum keeps building. More reach, more members, more people finding an argument that names what's broken instead of who to blame.
Q2 was proof. Q3 is the campaign. You could be part of it.
Thanks for following along,
The Fusion Team