Independent Member for Lyne: A Memoir

When the results of the 2010 federal elections became known, no party had a majority in the House of Representatives—it was the first hung parliament for 40 years. So both the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, set about wooing the independents—Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie, and Adam Bandt of the Greens. In the end, Julia Gillard stitched together an agreement with them to form government. When it was announced, famously th...