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When elected independents are seen as interlopers – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

When elected independents are seen as interlopers – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

According to the elite members of the Australian press gallery, any politician who isn’t from a major party is a pet to be managed by the grown-ups, writes Tim Dunlop.

Guy Rundle’s Quarterly Essay, Clivosaurus, is ostensibly about Clive Palmer, but it actually deals with something more fundamental than the pros and cons of PUP.

At its heart, it is a discussion of the press gallery and the narrow lens through which they interpret federal politics. It is a discussion of how we the people are fundamentally short-changed by a media who too often let their unexamined prejudices of what constitutes “good governance” colour the way they report the federal parliament.

Rundle argues that press gallery journalists have a basic distrust of small parties and independents. He notes that Palmer is not the first to be at the receiving end of their ire, suggesting, “The political media displayed the same irritation with him as they had displayed towards the Democrats and then the Greens.” (To which we could easily add the names of Oakeshott and Windsor.)

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