Patricia Petersen

In 2012 Petersen started her own political party, the Australian Independents. It was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 16 July 2013. In the 2013 federal election, the Australian Independents ran Senate candidates in every state and territory. The party also ran six candidates in the House of Representatives.

In Queensland, with Petersen as lead candidate, the party placed 17th out of the 34 parties that ran, having received 0.48% of the primary vote. Nationally, its senate candidates having received a total of 45,441 first preference votes, 0.34% of the total votes cast. Its House of Representatives candidates received 4,163 first preference votes, 0.03% of votes cast.

The Australian Independents was deregistered by the AEC on 4 February 2016, after failing to demonstrate the requisite 500 members to maintain registration. Provided by Wikipedia