History of independents in rural seats and the history of shock holds under 1%

Today another two topics. first of all rural independents. these have existed on and off since the federation when a independent won capricornia in Queensland.  Since then they have been there on and off. No rural independents have made history until Peter Andren was elected, he was one of the first to fight off the nats in his seat of Calare.  Around that time three new state mps Tony Windsor, rob oakshott, and Richard Torbay all had their own history. Windsor was disendorsed by the nats in the 91 election at state level but he went to be one of the most interesting federal independents in New England by supporting labor in the hung parliament,as did oakshott who was a state nat til 02 who then became a state independent then a federal one winning lyne, he also backed labor. Richard Torbay was a rural independent who became a nat candidate but lost pre-selection as there are rumours that has linked to the obeid problem. Bob katter also fits this category as a nat turned independent turned into his own party. The other interesting topic came up when I found labor ahead in greenway which is a marginal alp seat.  The last time this happened that a party held a seat under 1% was in sa at federal election in 98.  This means that the pendulum doesn’t mean much in some cases.