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Hey @PhillipCoorey we are not defunct. We're running 12 candidates in this election.

Let's look at this lazy attempt to equate the most recent grassroots political movement with the original trailblazers.
#auspol #ThisIsNotJournalism
We have the same Parliamentary status as the independents - ie none of us are in Parliament now, but we're all looking to enter Parliament and serve our communities (or re-enter, in our case).

One group is framed as a "new force" and the other "defunct". RUDE, Phil. Just RUDE.
"I wonder whether the ordinary voter is not becoming sick and tired of vested interests which unduly influence present political parties and yearn for the emergence of a third political force...which would owe allegiance to no outside pressure group."
Don Chipp, 1977.
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