Australia’s embrace of independent political candidates shows there’s no such thing as a safe seat
- Written by Joshua Black, Visitor, School of History, Australian National University
At the last federal election, Australia elected the largest lower house crossbench in its post-war federal history.
In addition to four Greens MPs, Rebekah Sharkie from the Centre Alliance and Bob Katter (with his own micro-party), there were ten independent MPs, seven of them new to parliament. These MPs have the freedom and flexibility to vote...
