AnswerMeNow1

AnswerMeNow1 is an Australian politician who currently serves the MP for Gorton, Minister for Equality, and leader of the Regional Victoria Alliance.

Early political career
AnswerMeNow1 first joined the Australian Democrats on 30 December 2018. However, she entered politics at the January 2018 election, contesting the Division of Bradfield on behalf of the Australia Party, which she had joined. She ultimately lost her election to Perekai of the Australian Democrats, and caused a large controversy when her vote in the Division of Lingiari became instrumental to the defeat of Prime Minister BloodyChrome.

Socialist Party
On 30 January 2018, AnswerMeNow1 left the Australia Party to join the Socialist Party, after claiming she was 'not a centrist'. She was preselected and won the seat of Lingiari at the by-election of February 2018 after the resignation of chaoticlapras. Following the formation of the NotKhrushchevsGhost Ministry, AnswerMeNow1 was granted the Defence and Aboriginal Affairs portfolios. AnswerMeNow1 was re-elected for the Division of Lingiari at the April 2018 election, but due to her position as the number 1 candidate on the Socialist Party senate ticket, also elected to the Australian Senate. She chose to be seated in the House of Representatives, resulting in ChairmanMeeseeks being elected as a Senator.

Independent and the Greens
On 20 May 2018, during instability within the Socialist Party, AnswerMeNow1 left the party and recontested her seat as an independent. She won unopposed in the June 2018, with its notoriously low amount of candidates. As the Liberals formed government, AnswerMeNow1 went to the crossbench, but soon reformed the Australian Greens, alongside phyllicanderer, MP for Batman. The party contested the Kingston supplementary election, recieving 11% of the primary vote. On 19 August 2018, AnswerMeNow1 was ejected from parliament for inactivity, resulting in a leadership spill against her the next day by phyllicanderer, which failed, resulting in AnswerMeNow1 having the confidence of her party. She ultimately would go on to lose the August by-election for her seat by 11%, winning 44% of the two-party-preferred vote and 33% of the primary vote, losing to BloodyChrome of the United Democratic Party. A spill had been expected to occur against her, but never occured following the party's merger with the Agrarian Party. This, however, turned out to be short-lived, following the party's departure from said merger over a lack of leadership transparency. The revived Greens adopted collective leadership, and at the following election, AnswerMeNow1 became the only elected Greens MP, winning Lingiari again against UDP challenger adamtad with 75% of the vote.

Pacific Unity Party
In a move that elicited much controversy, on 22 September 2018, AnswerMeNow1 created the brand new Australian Pacific Unity Party, resulting in the dissolution of the Greens shortly after. Alongside imnofox (who would later become a Socialist Party senator), she became the co-leader of the Pacific Unity Party, which contested only one election- the September 2018 by-election for Kingston, triggered by the resignation of Labour MP-elect lieselta. Ultimately, during the campaign, imnofox would go on to drop out, after AnswerMeNow1 left the party to trigger a by-election in her seat of Lingiari, which she did not recontest. She moved from her home in Alice Springs to Geelong after her resignation.

EMILY's List and the new Socialist Party
On 26 September 2018, AnswerMeNow1 founded EMILY's List Australia, an advocate for women's rights and feminism. The organisation ran the EMILY's News segment on Australia Tonight, and later, the news channel (which went on to become the Stockades). EMILY's List endorsed General_Rommel following an electoral debate on the channel for the Kingston by-election, who ultimately lost the seat to United Democratic challenger adamtad. On 3 November 2018, AnswerMeNow1 joined the Socialist Party, with EMILY's List operating within the party. She remained relatively political inactive, with the exception of leaving the Socialists for her most recent party-hop to the Radical Party in November 2018.

Re-entering parliament
At the Australian federal election, December 2018, AnswerMeNow1 re-entered politics, contesting the electorate her new home was now in, the Division of Gorton. She advocated for militant unions, activism and encryption among other things on the campaign trail, and criticised a campaign poster by her Liberal opponent showing the opponent pointing a gun at what could be percieved to be the viewer. AnswerMeNow1 was ultimately elected on a primary vote of 71%, becoming Minister for Equality under the Youmaton Ministry.

Formation of the Regional Victoria Alliance
Following the merger of the Radical and Social Democratic parties, AnswerMeNow1 elected to not participate and sit as an independent. However, shortly after, in a press conference outside parliament, she formed the Regional Victoria Alliance, a centre-left agrarian party focused on regional Victoria, having left open the possibility of the party possibly expanding into other states. She also announced that the RVA would be remaining in government, and that she would hold her Equalities portfolio. Following the publishing of the RVA manifesto, the RVA withdrew from government and AnswerMeNow1 sat on the crossbenches.

Rejoining the Socialists
On 3 March 2019, AnswerMeNow1 dissolved the RVA, sitting as an independent. Following by-elections where the government lost its majority, she joined the Socialist Party of Australia on 5 March 2019.

Personal life
AnswerMeNow1 is transgender, and was assigned male at birth. Throughout much of her political career, she lived as a man, and was married to a woman named Bridgette Williams. She came out on 9 November 2018, and had her gender formalised later in the day, being listed as female officially. Her relationship with her wife had been distant, and they separated shortly after. From November to the beginning of her campaign for Gorton, AnswerMeNow1 recieved facial feminisation surgery and gender affirmation surgery, which she was able to afford using her parliamentary pension and leftover salary. On 21 December 2018, AnswerMeNow1 and Williams formally divorced, with AnswerMeNow1 recieving custody of their 5 year old daughter (born 4 February 2013), named Kira. It has been rumoured that AnswerMeNow1 began an affair with her press secretary Alison, however this has never been confirmed.