As with every election, there’s some folks – almost always independents – who go to all the trouble of registering, and then don’t seem to do anything else. In these days of our terminally online culture, they somehow manage to slip through the cracks and remain unfindable online, at least to our sophisticated search techniques, which consist of using the following search terms:
- “candidate name” + senate
- “candidate name” + election
- “candidate name” + australia
- “candidate name” + victoria
(Yes, we could include the year, but the recency bias of most search engines makes that unnecessary.)
Gentle reader, if you should stumble across any of the folk listed below in the course of your internet wanderings – or if you are one of the folk listed below – please let us know! We want to give everyone the best coverage we can.
The Group T independents are all somewhat MIA: Found them!
Raj Saini – unfortunately, there is a more infamous Canadian politician with the same name, which makes searching for them difficult. But even adding “Australia” or “Victoria” to the search terms doesn’t seem to help.Kirti Alle – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.Yashaswini Srinivas Kanakagiri – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.
In the Ungrouped section, four of the eight candidates are unfindable:
- Susantha Abeysinghe –
It’s possible that this is the same person, but there’s no mention of the Federal election on their page. We have reached out to them to check, still waiting on a response as of 21/4.Found them! - Lawrence Harvey –
search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts. Plus, there seem to be multiple people with this name, making identification even more difficult.Found them! - K Black –
search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts. Plus, this is further complicated by the multiple people with whose name is “firstname K. Black”, making identification even more difficult.Found them! Nate Ritter – search results turn up their name only on lists of candidates, or in non-political contexts.Found them!
Wow, we’ve actually found almost everyone this year! We can only hope that this is not a portent of the Apocalypse.
