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The HEART Party is currently registered Federally (reference: AEC Register of Political Parties) and in NSW.
In August 2023, IMOP and HAP proposed to merge, but HAP withdrew from the merger on 10 October.
"HAP withdrew from HEART on 10 October, a week after the new party was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission." Correction: IMOP changed their name to HEART. HEART did not register as a new party. Other parts of this page state this correctly, while other sections refer to HEART as being a newly registered party.
The decision to deregister the party Federally has been set aside and has been replaced with a new decision on 4 February 2025 (reference: Delegate decision set aside – Health Environment Accountability Rights Transparency (HEART)). Therefore, the section published "Deregistration at the federal level" has been revoked and is now outdated information. "[t]he Commission is satisfied that the Party should not be deregistered under s 137(6) of the Electoral Act. The Commission has decided under s 141(4)(c) of the Electoral Act to set aside the decision under review and substitute the decision to take all such steps as are necessary give effect to its decision, including to maintain the registration of the Party by re-registering the Party in the Register."
The article says: "see also Barbara O'Neill". Note that Barbara is a committee member nor a candidate of the HEART Party (reference: Contact Us).

HEARTParty (talk) 11:55, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @HEARTParty. Please note that your engagement on this topic is subject to Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policies, and I would encourage you to review the best practice guidelines on WP:COIEDIT. Additionally, your username implies shared use and is promotional which is a violation of Wikipedia's username policy.

In regards to the content changes:

1 and 4. The restoration of HEART Party at the federal level has now been included, that a later review requested by the party allowed for the re-registration based on a newly provided membership list.

2 and 3. I quote, word for word from HEART's own Facebook page, "Thankyou to Graham Hood & John Larter for your time this morning as Michael O’Neill, founder and President of Informed Medical Options Party - IMOP announce our exciting merger with Lisa Bentley, Registered Party Officer for Health Australia Party (HAP)", and Michael O'Neill saying "we have been in negotiations for a while and we have decided to merge [with HAP]" ([1] / Wayback Machine capture). Trying to spin this as "proposed to merge" is misleading and untruthful.

5. Barbara O'Neill is a vocal pseudoscience promoter and alternative medicine conspiracy theorist. Her relationship to the party, through her husband, is of material relevance to the general public and the broader political and social context. She was also a featured speaker during a December 2024 fundraising event, and is heavily featured on the party's website and socials. The party's founder, her husband, also has consistently used collective terms like "we" when talking about Barbara and the party. Asking for references to her to be removed is extremely suspicious and would be unjust and imbalanced censorship.

Tim (Talk) 14:04, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]