So-called teal independents have often operated like a loose party. Now they are being offered the chance to join one that will operate loosely.
For now, Sydney independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender are Community Strong Australia’s (CSA) only takers.
They will work constructively together, as they did before, and maintain a free vote, as they had before.
“[We’ll] represent our communities, but also provide that national solution and national direction,” Steggall told reporters, seemingly explaining the logic of a party structure.
