“I am going to stand as a candidate in the federal election” I said. Many people said, “you are so brave”. “Or mad” I said. There were a few things that brought me to my decision to run as an independent in this federal election. The main reason being that I believe governments have lost sight of who they are meant to represent. That is, to represent the people who elected them. I was talking to a member of a party yesterday at the pre-polling station, they said that their p