December 12, 2021
Voters will be asked to trust a growing field of independent candidates to decide who forms government if there’s a hung Parliament after the federal election, with prominent challengers declining to say whether they would back Labor or the Liberals. Independents are naming climate...
Read MoreDecember 10, 2021
Northern Beaches doctor Sophie Scamps has declared her candidacy for the federal seat of Mackellar with a campaign launch at Avalon Beach last weekend. A GP at Narrabeen and former Mona Vale Hospital emergency department doctor, Dr Scamps is a founder of environmental movement...
Read MoreDecember 09, 2021
A northern beaches’ doctor says seeing little action on climate change by the federal government has prompted her run as an independent at the next election. Federal election campaign launch for Dr Sophie Scamps Northern beaches doctor Sophie Scamps has launched her campaign to...
Read MoreDecember 09, 2021
By Rachel Withers Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma. Image © Joel Carrett / AAP Images Dave Sharma and the “moderate” Liberals are starting to sweat over their independent challengers Wentworth MP and “modern Liberal” Dave Sharma is starting to seriously sweat over the growing independents...
Read MoreDecember 07, 2021
In early 2020, the Liberal Member for Mackellar Jason Falinski did a letterbox drop to constituents containing a list of issues, asking them to tick a box next to the ones that most concerned them. “There was no climate change action on that list,”...
Read MoreDecember 06, 2021
In early 2020, the Liberal Member for Mackellar Jason Falinski did a letterbox drop to constituents containing a list of issues, asking them to tick a box next to the ones that most concerned them. “There was no climate change action on that list,”...
Read MoreNovember 23, 2021
Independents: Inside the insurrection of the centre The independent candidate for Goldstein, Zoe Daniel, launches her election campaign in Sandringham, Victoria, last weekend. CREDIT: BERNARD WRIGHT As a foreign correspondent for 20-odd years, Zoe Daniel saw the devastating consequences of climate change close up....
Read MoreNovember 23, 2021
Glasgow has come and gone, and the Morrison government averted climate action and dodged immense pressure from world leaders. But can it avoid the next climate-shaped problem coming to the next election? Watch The Project on how independents are standing for climate action.
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