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Russell Crowe has argued that the rise of independent <br> <br> politicians are better representing the views of everyday Australians, unlike the <br> <br> 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  <br> <br> complaining that Americans were 'completely trapped in the <br> <br> two-party system'.<br> <br> <br> <br> 'We have the same sort of situation, but we have a very interesting thing <br> <br> that's happening in Australia at the moment, which is the <br> <br> rise of independents,' Crowe countered.<br> <br> <br> <br> 'The main parties have to deal with the fact those independents have to bring a non-party-line series of points to <br> <br> the argument.<br> <br> <br> <br> 'And it's working well. It's working for us. In that it's making both of <br> <br> 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 US politics is completely dominated by the Democrat and Republican parties.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> There are other parties, including the Green, Libertarian, and Reform <br> <br> parties, 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 <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> saw him garner 10 million votes and take five southern states, while another disaffected Democrat, Strom Thurmond,<br> <br> in 1948 carried four southern states on a similarly racist <br> <br> platform but with only 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 before he <br> <br> pulled out and backed Republican Donald Trump. <br> <br> <br> <br> He has now been appointed Health secretary in Trump's incoming <br> <br> cabinet. <br> <br> <br> <br> Trump himself had previously belonged to the Reform Party.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The former New York property developer had even considered running for <br> <br> president in the 2000 election under the banner of that movement - <br> <br> formed by former third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot,<br> <br> 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 <br> <br> since former Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 ran as the <br> <br> Bull Moose Party candidate - carrying six states including California and coming second ahead of Republican William Taft.<br> <br> <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 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 <br> <br> Representatives. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Zali Steggall (pictured) became the first 'teal' independent <br> <br> to achieve huge success when she ousted former prime minister Tony Abbott in his seat in Sydney's northern beaches at the 2019 election<br> <br> <br> <br> Meanwhile, independent candidates who run on strong climate platforms but <br> <br> are fiscally conservative have been labelled 'teal' candidates.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This is because they have combined their 'green' views <br> <br> on climate with the traditional 'blue' approach of the <br> <br> centre-right Liberal Party on economics.<br> <br> <br> <br> Zali Steggall became the first teal independent to achieve huge success when she ousted 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 treasurer <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> four Greens, three conservative independents and progressives Andrew Wilkie and Helen Haines.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Crowe's three-hour conversation with Rogan, which was first aired in August, has recently <br> <br> resurfaced in teal social media adverts.<br> <br> <br> <br> They are being pushed by Melbourne philanthropist Simon Holmes à Court, who founded Climate 200, which has given campaign funding to some teal candidates.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Not all the 12 independents elected in 2022 were <br> <br> teals, however. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Maverick independent Bob Katter has just celebrated 50 <br> <br> years in parliament (pictured: being congratulated by prime <br> <br> minister Anthony Albanese)<br> <br> <br> <br> Dai Lee, a former state Liberal candidate, defeated former Labor frontbencher and former NSW Labor premier Kristina Keneally in the south-west Sydney seat of Fowler.<br> <br> <br> <br> <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 Queensland state MP before serving the past three decades in federal parliament as the MP for the regional far north Queensland electorate of Kennedy. <br> <br> <br> <br> Among his many mad-hat policies over the years include a bid <br> <br> to teach school kids how to fire rifles and a desire to build a missile shield across <br> <br> northern Australia.<br> <br> <br> <br> The House of Representatives crossbench grew to 17 in late 2022 when Andrew Gee quit the <br> <br> Nationals in protest at its opposition to the Indigenous Voice <br> <br> to Parliament. <br> <br> <br> <br> The Greens and independents make up 11 per cent of 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> my website - เยอบีร่า ความหมาย - <br> <br> https://flexhaja.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=262013
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