IAPA had seven (7) candidates
2  x NSW Senate
2 x QLD senate
3 x NSW House of Representatives

Local and community newspapers were so supportive. Thank you!
Daily Liberal in Dubbo and Barrier Truth in the West NSW to the Central Coast Community News on the Coast were some of the media outlets that helped us tell our story.
We also had online articles in NIT, Reddit.com and Mamamia.com 

During the election we used Facebook to let everyone know what we were doing. It was a great success as people all over Australia tagged Indigenous Aboriginal party of Australia in their posts - - people standing in the rain on polling day handing out how to vote cards, supporters putting our corflutte signs up everywhere.

As a grassroots party we loved how this election helped create so many connections and community.

We have a Facebook account that is really designed for friends only. We have the maximum number of friends 5000 and 660 followers. 

Lionel did a north Queensland trip –From Brisbane to Innisfail to Mission Beach and Townsville and Ayre, Lionel spread the Party word.
Uncle Owen and Derek traveled many k‘s on several road trips from Broken Hill and Wilcannia to Canberra and Ulladulla.
We were represented by our candidates in Terrigal and at the flood recovery response in Lismore.
 

Uncle Owen outlined our policies and reasons for running while Derek answered questions and had them rolling in the isles with his wit and good humor in Narrabri.
Uncle Owen received a call from a farmer after the Dubbo Forum who said, “I didn‘t know who to vote for, but now I do.”
The Hindu Council of Australia invited Uncle Owen and Derek to talk about our policies at their event. The said the Hindus have a lot in common with Indigenous issues and were a fantastic support. More friends were made.
Jeff Lawson wowed the big turnout at the rowdy Copacabana Community Forum for Robertson Candidates.

We really did receive a lot of support from radio and media outlets.
Koori Radio, Redfern, was so supportive and interviewed Uncle Owen and Derek in the week before the election. Thank you Lola for your patience in rounding up our candidates and the tech issues we rose above.
Jenny-Lee had a hard-hitting radio ad on Star 102.7 fm and 4CA in Cairns and on River 94.9 in Brisbane/Ipswich where it was recorded.
There were 100 x 30 slots in Cairns before the media blackout on the Wednesday before the election.
We had 100 + slots on ’River‘ in Qld.
Nearly all the candidates appeared on Bumma Bippera in Cairns on ’TalkBlack‘ with Trevor Tim which is syndicated nationally.
’The Point‘ show on NITV covered the Qld launch and the all day meet and greet in King George Square Brisbane.

During the campaigning we relied on our wonderful volunteers, Gab, Jono and Lisa.

We were joined by other amazing members and supporters who put their hands up to help out.

….To the wonderful people who stood all day in the rain on election day or contributed in all sorts of other ways such as putting yourself forward to be a candidates, writing media releases, helping with digital and admin challenges, spending their own money to print HTV cards, putting up signs all over the place, supporting us on Facebook, and all the other ways you have provided support for our party at election time…
A big thank you from all of us at IAPA.
 
A call out to some staunch supporters of a First Nations place in Parliament goes out to….
In QLD - Marnie, Rou, Christine C., Margid, Christine V-W, Bill, Megan, Tyrone, Barb, Tyrone, Lauren, Kathryn, John, Steve C, Steve R., Zhanae, Damian, and Michael.
VIC - Chris, Jenny, Ken T and the lovely Michelle S.
NSW - Lisa P, and Lisa F, Colleen and Kirsten, Penryn, Karen H, Jake C, Josh B, and Kevin from Nth Entrance, Alan from Moorebank and Lana from Woy Woy. Melise designed some great flyers.
ACT – Loes used her expertise and wrote some news releases for us. Thanks Loes.
 
Special thanks go to
Rou for his letter drops around Moorooka as well as his election day and pre-polling work, and to
Doc from Sydney‘s western suburb, Toongabbie, who moved around to a few polling places on polling day to spread the word, and
Colleen, who despite physical challenges also stood in the rain all day at Kariong Polling Station. 
We are really grateful to ALL the wonderful people that showed their support for the Indigenous Party.
We most certainly have not named everyone who helped us out, and apologies if we have missed your name. You know who you are and without community support for our grassroots party we could not survive without you.
THANK YOU                    THANK YOU                  THANK YOU                THANK YOU
 

The data in this newsletter is as close as we can approximate. It's just to give you an idea of what is involved in an election with 7 candidates, in 2 states, for a brand new party.

Our aim is to have candidates in every state and territory..to do this we need more people to give us a hand....and also more Indigenous people to say "I could be a candidate! I could do that!" I am full on passionate about Indigenous rights and issues in this country, I want a voice.!"
That's how it starts.
This is YOUR PARTY

Contact us at indigenouspartyofaustralia@gmail.com