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Next is Mining and Pastoral region, who have three sets of grouped independents.

Tayla Squires & Cameron Paul Gardiner

And we are back to no websites. These two confuse me: I can’t find anyone of their names who lives in Mining and Pastoral, or even that many reasonable candidates for them in WA.

Tayla may be a Behavioural Therapist for autism therapy for kids. She graduated from uni in 2018. However, I can’t be sure, as all the social media I looked at did not show any signs of running for election, and her work is in the northern suburban sprawl of Perth.

Cameron Gardiner is a bit of a mystery, as again, the only potential candidate I’ve found is based around Freemantle.

So once again, we have people completely wasting being in Column A by being invisible on the internet.

The preference flow is the only indication of their views, and unfortunately it looks like a Druery funnel. It’s Daylight Saving Party, Liberals for Climate, Liberal Democrats, Health Australia Party, Sustainable Australia, then WA Party. End of the ticket is Labor, Liberal then One Nation.

So the only thing I’ve gotten out of these folk is that they hate One Nation. So do I, Tayla and Cameron, but I need a bit more to go on to ever vote for you.

Christine Jeanette Kelly & Noel Wayne McGinniss

More invisible people. I may have found these two on Facebook, but the only thing I can see political about their pages is an #IStandWithMarkMcGowan Keep Our Borders Closed filter from July 2020. So clearly they like the borders being closed.

The preference flow is the same Druery order as the first lot: it’s Daylight Saving Party, Liberals for Climate, Liberal Democrats, Health Australia Party, Sustainable Australia, then WA Party. End of the ticket is Labor, Liberal then One Nation. The bottom is again Labor, Liberal then One Nation.

Seriously. Why are you registered, if all you are here to do is funnel more votes to, in this case, DSP? At least the microparties trading preferences have told me what they might do with their votes in the event they manage to fool enough people to get in.

Anthony Fels & Van Son Le

Thank goodness, finally a real candidate! Anthony Fels has not provided us with a website as far as I can tell, but that’s all right because the internet holds PLENTY of evidence of his political views.

Anthony Fels is a serial candidate and serial pest. He likes hopping parties. He was originally elected to the WA parliament in the Legislative Council for the Agricultural Region in 2005 as a member of the Liberal Party. He was found to have lied to a parliamentary inquiry in 2007, then resigned from the Liberal Party in 2008 even as the Liberals tried desperately to remove him from parliament. He first of all formed the People Against Daylight Saving party, then joined Family First for the remainder of his term. He left parliament in 2009 and has not made it back since.

Fels apparently then decided to become a serial candidate. Aside from heading the WA branch of Family First until their merger with Aus Conservatives in April 2017, he has also stood for various parliaments as follows:

2010 federal election: independent for the WA Senate
2013 WA election: independent for Agricultural Region LC
2013 federal election: Katter’s Australia Party for the WA Senate
2014 federal WA Senate special election: stood for the Mutual Party, which was essentially a front for both two independent candidates (Anthony Fels and Felly Chandra) as part of the Druery Minor Party Alliance.
2017 WA election: stood as an independent in the seat of Roe after being preselected by One Nation but not endorsed (so some falling out happened).
2017 Bennelong by-election: stood in NSW for Bennelong for the Non-Custodial Parents Party.
2019 federal election: stood for UAP in the seat of O’Connor.

Anthony Fels has clearly run for every possible election (including wandering off to the Bennelong by-election in NSW, showing a determined insistence to run as a crank and coming 12/12 with 0.2% of the vote) and been a member of eight different parties in his time.

If you are a connoisseur of fine microparty drama (and if not, why not?) Anthony Fels is a hoot. Some recent highlights include: the time he got into a fight with Rod Culleton while serving Culleton documents about more creditors during the bankruptcy proceedings that eventually got Culleton expelled from parliament under Section 44; the time he was banned from travelling overseas to his son’s wedding in Bali due to apparently owing child support; and this charming summary of Anthony Fels’ many attempts to get back into parliament and a few of his brushes with the law, which includes the immortal line “he asked the magistrate if he could leave the court because, ‘I want to get back to my son, who I left on the tractor’”.

No wonder the man stood for Non-Custodial Parents in 2017.

Look, that lineup of parties that Fels has stood for and then abruptly left, frequently due to conflict, suggests that he’s a right wing crank with some very dodgy views about parental rights.

His group voting ticket is also hilarious. It’s himself and his running mate, then Michael Huston (second on the ticket for the Liberals), then the other four independents, then WA Party, Liberals for Climate, Sustainable Australia, Legalise Cannabis, WAxit and Nicholas Fardell (lead for the Nationals). Bottom of his ticket is the remainder of the Nationals, the remainder of the Liberals, the Greens, then Labor.

I sense a grudge.

The only thing I’ve managed to find about Van Son Le is that he used to have an ABN. I honestly don’t care, because he’s only there to make up the numbers for Anthony Fels.

Don’t vote for this joker. Do, however, read any and all articles you can find about him – they are guaranteed to amuse and delight.