One Nation’s Farrer win is just the latest example of regional NSW voters putting a stick in the eye of the major parties | Julianne Schultz

Before independents reshaped urban politics, country electorates in the state had long elected outsiders and defectors

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Voters in regional New South Wales have been putting a stick in the eye of major parties for decades.

Before the community independents changed the urban political landscape, rural and regional electorates in the state had elected independents and defectors from the old parties – Peter Andren, Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Andrew Gee.