"I think I'm just fed up," says Irene Trewarne, a minor party voter in this year's election. "[The politics] in the major parties has become way too personal. It's ugly."
Bill Hunt agrees he is also "fed up with them", switching his vote from the Coalition to the Nick Xenophon Team.
Bill and Irene are some of the nearly 6 million voters who chose to cast their ballot for candidates outside the major party.
It's a trend that is , and one that Insight will examine in . The show discovers a number of issues at the heart of these peoples' decisions to switch their votes to minority representatives.
Immigration
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party campaigned on a of "abolishing multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act and promoting assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being an Australian." It garnered them four representatives in the Senate.
Irene was one of those voters. An immigrant from Hungary, her experience of assimilating with Australian culture upon her family's arrival has grounded her belief that new Australians should be integrating more seamlessly with the country's way of life.
"I came here as a six year old and when you relate it to immigration now, it's just no comparison," she tells Insight's Jenny Brockie.
"We were very keen to assimilate, we were very keen to adopt Australian values and to this day I'm an immensely patriotic Australian, immensely and I don't see that happening in immigration now."
Irene believes new Australians are segregating themselves into non-integrated communities, and she worries the country is no longer the "melting pot" of cultures she thought it was.
Queenslander Harriet Galagher similarly voted for One Nation on the issue.
I like all her policies on immigration ... I'd like to see this country get back to a bit of common sense.
"I like all her policies on immigration ... it's common sense," she says. "I'd like to see this country get back to a bit of common sense."
Harriet's view, specifically, is to halt the migration of people who identity as Muslim.
"I think we need a moratorium to take a halt on this, to stop and take a bit of stock of it, because I don't think the Muslims are assimilating as well as we would like them to assimilate at the moment in Australia," she says.
"I know that with multi culturalism this becomes difficult because they don't have to, but ... I don't think Islam and Christianity have ever really worked terribly successfully together."
On the show, Harriet meets a Muslim for the first time.
Jobs
"I think there is a big problem with jobs for our young people in this country, I really do," says Harriet. "Probably more outside the major cities but I just think with the end of the mining boom, I think there is a big problem with jobs for young people."
She says her two sons, one an electrician and the other carpenter, have struggled to find adequate work while rural Queensland sees the mining boom drawing to an end and issues with drought.
Despite the "jobs and growth" mantra put forward by the major parties, Harriet believes unemployment issues are not being fixed and debt has continued to grow.
"I truly don't think they [the major parties] are addressing it."
Harriet Galagher, on Insight Source: Insight
Domestic violence and justice
Marnie Gray's hometown of Wangaratta saw two tragic deaths in the space of a few months, of eleven year-old - a friend of Marnie's daughter - and , with whom she had mutual acquaintances. Marnie herself had left Wangaratta just a year earlier, to escape domestic violence.
"They were two very shocking, close-to-home murders", she says. "That really struck a chord with the community."
She met former radio broadcaster and now Senator Derryn Hinch at one a rally in the town, and was struck by how approachable he was, and his direct connection to the issue.
"It was a very emotional decision for me," she says. "It was all about the justice system, or the injustice system, that made me vote for [Derryn] Hinch."
Terrorism and Islam
Rod Caddies, from Western Australia, put his vote behind Pauline Hanson because he agreed with her , which - among other things - calls for a Royal Commission into Islam.
"I don't dislike Muslims," he tells Insight. "I dislike the things that are coming about from Islam, you know, things that I've seen in the country already."
"It's not about racism because Muslims can be from any country, it's about investigating Islam, talking about it and making it not so politically incorrect to talk about it and to look into it and find out what the issues are and where the problems are stemming from."
Harriet Galagher agrees with Rod - and One Nation's - beliefs, with fear of terrorism a driving force.
Source: Insight
"I think that we have a problem with Islam in Australia," she says. "I am scared of terrorism, I seriously am."
"I'm not scared to say I would be too scared to take my grandchildren to somewhere very public with a lot of crowds, say South Bank in Brisbane at New Year's Eve or Brisbane Exhibition where there are massive crowds. I literally would be too scared to take my grandchildren there these days. That's how I feel."
In the Insight audience, Scarlett Kayis, who converted to Islam six years ago when she married, also felt disenchanted with her voting options this election.
"The reason why I don't feel like I had many people to vote for was because I felt like this election, especially people like Pauline Hanson ... their goal was to target the true battlers of this country in regional areas, in low socio-economic towns, and they're trying to grab their attention by scaring them," she says.
"You have no reason to be fearful of me."
She gave her vote to the Nick Xenophon team.
Health
Issues of mental and physical wellbeing were also a priority for minor party voters.
Lyn Cleaver's son is severely disabled and requires medicinal cannabis to treat his epilepsy.
"We [used to vote] Liberal and I think the turning point was I saw my friends begging Liberal Premiers and our Prime Minister for a drug that can save their lives," she says. "Nobody should have to beg for their choices in health care."
"My friends have died in hospital beds talking to politicians, begging them for medicinal cannabis."
After unsuccessful attempts to see her local MP, she took the issue up with Jacqui Lambie, who listened to the cause. Lambie eventually won her vote, with Lyn finding her to be "open and honest and we got a real sense from her that she would move forward with us on this."
My friends have died in hospital beds talking to politicians.
Mental health was an important issue for Scarlett's mother, Viki Hannah, who also voted for the Nick Xenophon team.
She was close to a youth mental health and homelessness program that was defunded in the Queensland state election, when her local member lost the election, and she found it difficult not having a representative to go to.
"I'd had enough, that I couldn't actually even go and speak to my local member and have them listen to me," she says. "I needed to have someone."
"I voted Xenophon because I felt that he listened and he was someone who was driving, some of his policies I was interested in around the gambling side of things because that's the target group that I work with."
Like many of the guests on the show, Viki was thoroughly disappointed in the behaviour of the major parties while in government.
"I think they behave like children but that’s what I expect from them and this isn’t new," she says. "Dirty politics, those two words go together.”
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