Listen, engage, show you care: how Greens and independents took local politics all the way to Canberra

Kooyong independent Monique Ryan speaks to voters at a prepoll centre. It’s all about community engagement. Photograph: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images

While the Liberal party licks its election wounds, Susan Harris Rimmer says she’s not surprised by the success of the Greens and the independents.

Rimmer, a politics and policy expert, lives in the Queensland seat of Griffith, where Labor’s Terri Butler was ousted by the Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather.