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