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Russell Crowe has argued that the rise of independent politicians are better representing the views of everyday Australians, unlike the two-party-dominated system in the United States. <br> <br> <br> <br> The Oscar-winning actor made the claim in response to podcast host Joe Rogan  complaining that Americans <br> <br> were 'completely trapped in the two-party system'.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> 'We have the same sort of situation, but we have a very interesting thing that's happening in Australia at the moment, which is <br> <br> the rise of independents,' Crowe countered.<br> <br> <br> <br> 'The main parties have to deal with the fact those independents have to bring <br> <br> a non-party-line series of points to the argument.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> 'And it's working well. It's working for us.<br> <br> In that it's making both of the main parties re-examine who they are and what they stand for.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Rogan mused 'we could use that here, for sure', highlighting how <br> <br> US politics is completely dominated by the Democrat <br> <br> and Republican parties.<br> <br> <br> <br> There are other parties, including the Green, Libertarian, and Reform parties,<br> <br> but these receive vanishingly few votes in comparison.<br> <br> <br> <br> Independent candidates can also stand and have been known to <br> <br> perform well on occasion. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The Oscar-winning actor (pictured ) made the observation in response to podcast host Joe Rogan who complained that Americans were 'completely trapped in the two-party system'<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Joe Rogan (pictured) is one of the most powerful media figures in the world <br> <br> <br> <br> Civil rights opponent George Wallace ran a third-party campaign in the 1968 US election which saw him garner 10 million votes and take five southern states,<br> <br> while another disaffected Democrat, Strom Thurmond, in 1948 carried four southern states on a similarly racist platform but with only <br> <br> a million votes.<br> <br> <br> <br> The nephew of a president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,<br> <br> was poised to get on the ballot in dozens of states as an independent candidate <br> <br> before he pulled out and backed Republican Donald Trump. <br> <br> <br> <br> He has now been appointed Health secretary in Trump's incoming cabinet. <br> <br> <br> <br> Trump himself had previously belonged to the Reform Party.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The former New York property developer had even considered running for president in the 2000 election under the <br> <br> banner of that movement - formed by former third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot, who won 19 per cent of the popular vote in 1992 but gained no electoral college votes.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Perot was the most popular minority party candidate since former Republican president <br> <br> Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 ran as the Bull Moose Party candidate - carrying six states including California and coming second ahead of Republican William <br> <br> Taft.<br> <br> <br> <br> Australia has seen a rise in recent years of nominally independent politicians who have taken votes away from the two traditional parties of Labor <br> <br> and the Liberal-National coalition<br> <br> <br> <br> This situation is helped by a strong Green party who now have 12 senators and four members in the House of Representatives. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Zali Steggall (pictured) became the first 'teal' independent to achieve huge <br> <br> success when she ousted former prime minister Tony Abbott in his <br> <br> seat in Sydney's northern beaches at the 2019 election<br> <br> <br> <br> Meanwhile, independent candidates who run on strong climate platforms but are fiscally conservative <br> <br> have been labelled 'teal' candidates.<br> <br> <br> <br> This is because they have combined their 'green' views on climate with the traditional 'blue' approach of the centre-right Liberal Party on economics.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Zali Steggall became the first teal independent to achieve huge success when she ousted <br> <br> former prime minister Tony Abbott in his seat in Sydney's northern beaches at the 2019 election.<br> <br> <br> <br> In similar fashion, Monique Ryan won the traditionally Liberal seat from former <br> <br> treasurer Josh Frydenberg at the 2022 election. <br> <br> <br> <br> She was one of seven teals elected, swelling the lower house crossbench to 16, with this tally including the four <br> <br> Greens, three conservative independents and progressives Andrew Wilkie and Helen Haines.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Crowe's three-hour conversation with Rogan, which was <br> <br> first aired in August, has recently resurfaced in teal social media adverts.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> They are being pushed by Melbourne philanthropist Simon Holmes à Court, who founded Climate 200, <br> <br> which has given campaign funding to some teal candidates.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Not all the 12 independents elected in 2022 were teals, however. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Maverick independent Bob Katter has just celebrated 50 years <br> <br> in parliament (pictured: being congratulated by prime minister Anthony Albanese)<br> <br> <br> <br> Dai Lee, a former state Liberal candidate, defeated former Labor frontbencher <br> <br> and former NSW Labor premier Kristina Keneally in the south-west <br> <br> Sydney seat of Fowler.<br> <br> <br> <br> And, of course, maverick Bob Katter who has just celebrated <br> <br> 50 years in parliament, spending 20 years as a <br> <br> Queensland state MP before serving the past three decades in federal parliament as <br> <br> the MP for the regional far north Queensland electorate of <br> <br> Kennedy. <br> <br> <br> <br> Among his many mad-hat policies over the years include a bid to teach school kids <br> <br> how to fire rifles and a desire to build a missile shield across northern Australia.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The House of Representatives crossbench grew to 17 in late 2022 when Andrew Gee quit the Nationals in protest at <br> <br> its opposition to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. <br> <br> <br> <br> The Greens and independents make up 11 per cent of <br> <br> the 151-member lower house - the highest proportion of non major party MPs since Federation in 1901. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Joe Rogan<br> <br> <br> <br> Look into my web site ... ดอกไม้ไหว้ศพ - https://Cl-system.jp/question/cash-for-%e0%b8%9e%e0%b8%a7%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%ab%e0%b8%a3%e0%b8%b5%e0%b8%94%e0%b8%a3%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%84%e0%b8%b2-500-%e0%b8%9a%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%97-%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%97%e0%b8%9a%e0%b8%b8%e0%b8%a3/
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