The passionate, grassroots campaigns of independent candidates in once blue-ribbon Liberal seats such as Kooyong and Goldstein in Victoria, North Sydney and Wentworth in NSW, and Curtin in Western Australia, were without doubt one of the most compelling and exciting aspects of the recent Federal election.
‘I felt like so many voters did, poorly represented by the local MP; in my case it was Josh Frydenberg. We got the picture: No vision for the future, only power for power’s sake,’ he explained.