The crushing failure of clean energy hobbyist Alex Turnbull’s conceited blood-feud against the Coalition parties at last May’s federal election has been comprehensively picked over. So what? It’s always so delicious to rehash!

“Should the major parties feel threatened? Yes, because one of the major barriers to facing independent threats [being independents' lack of organisational structure] is becoming a smaller one,” he claimed after sharing his administrative wisdom with Flinders candidate Julia Banks… who then didn’t even come second.