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Russell Crowe has argued that the rise of independent <br> <br> politicians are better representing the views of everyday <br> <br> Australians, unlike the two-party-dominated system in the United <br> <br> States. <br> <br> <br> <br> 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> <br> <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 <br> <br> is the 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 the argument.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> 'And it's working well. It's working for us. In that it's making both <br> <br> 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 and Republican parties.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> There are other parties, including the Green, Libertarian, and Reform parties, but these receive vanishingly few votes <br> <br> in comparison.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Independent candidates can also stand and have <br> <br> been known to perform well on occasion. </b><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 <br> <br> Americans were 'completely trapped in the <br> <br> two-party system'<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u>Joe Rogan (pictured) is one of the most powerful media figures in the world </u><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 <br> <br> and take five southern states, while another disaffected Democrat, Strom Thurmond, 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., 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> <b><u>He has now been appointed Health secretary in Trump's incoming cabinet. </u></b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Trump himself had previously belonged to the Reform Party.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> The former New York property developer had even considered running for president in the 2000 election under the banner of that movement <br> <br> - formed by former third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot, who won 19 per cent of the popular vote <br> <br> in 1992 but gained no electoral college votes.<br> <br> <br> <br> Perot was the most popular minority party candidate since former Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 ran as the Bull Moose <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> the Liberal-National coalition<br> <br> <br> <br> This situation is helped by a strong Green party <br> <br> who now have 12 senators and four members in the <br> <br> House of Representatives. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Zali Steggall (pictured) became the first 'teal' independent to <br> <br> achieve huge success when she ousted former prime minister Tony Abbott in his seat <br> <br> 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 have been labelled 'teal' candidates.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This is because they have combined their 'green' views on climate <br> <br> 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 former prime minister <br> <br> 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 <br> <br> Liberal seat from former treasurer Josh Frydenberg at the 2022 <br> <br> election. <br> <br> <br> <br> She was one of seven teals elected, swelling the lower house <br> <br> crossbench to 16, with this tally including the four Greens,<br> <br> three conservative independents and progressives Andrew <br> <br> Wilkie and Helen Haines.<br> <br> <br> <br> Crowe's three-hour conversation with Rogan, which was first aired in August,<br> <br> 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> <u>Not all the 12 independents elected in 2022 were teals, however. </u><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 <br> <br> 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 to teach school kids how to fire rifles and a desire to build a <br> <br> missile shield across northern Australia.<br> <br> <br> <br> The House of Representatives crossbench grew to 17 <br> <br> in late 2022 when Andrew Gee quit the Nationals in protest at its opposition to the <br> <br> Indigenous Voice to Parliament. <br> <br> <br> <br> The Greens and independents make up 11 per cent of the <br> <br> 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> Also visit my blog post ... <a href="http://It-Viking.ch/index.php/Solid_Reasons_To_Avoid_Discuss">รูปพวงหรีดแสดงความเสียใจ</a>
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