ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Jenny Warfe will stand as an Independent Radical Candidate alongside prominent Melbourne anarchist Dr Joseph Toscano at the August 21 federal senate election.

Ms Warfe, of Dromana, was the convener of Blue Wedges Coalition that headed the campaign against the dredging of Port Phillip Bay and is now opposing the expansion of the Port of Hastings.

Dr Toscano is a practising doctor who, while not enrolled and having never voted in his life, has stood as an independent candidate on several occasions since 1977 due to a loophole in the electoral laws.

For the 2004 election, he ran as a senate candidate on a 'Don't vote' or 'vote informal' platform aimed at people who do not believe in the current political system.

In 2007, Dr Toscano and Jude Pierce based their platform on 'direct democracy', rather than parliamentary rule, which included giving electors the power to recall poorly performing MPs. This policy is being considered by the new British coalition government.

It is also one of the policies that attracted Ms Warfe to run with Dr Toscano and CBS radio broadcaster Andrew Sadauskas as an Independent Radical Candidate.

Other Radicals' policies include voluntary euthanasia, a tax deduction for interest paid on the first $250,000 of people's main home purchased for less than $500,000, no public funding of private schools, no public funding of private health care, decriminalising drugs, establishing a people's bank, and a 30percent resource rent tax.

"We don't expect to be elected but we know there are a lot of people unhappy with what the government and the Coalition are dishing up in their campaigns," Ms Warfe said.

"We want to start a debate, to start a conversation about a different future to what the main parties propose."