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Independent MP Rob Oakeshott says 12 months on from the federal election the hung parliament is working but the politics is "ugly".
Mr Oakeshott, the member for the NSW seat of Lyne, was one of four crossbenchers to deliver government to Labor after the August 2010 federal election.
He said the first minority government since the 1940s was more accountable and transparent than previous administrations and legislation was getting through parliament.
"So I think from that perspective, it's working," he told The Conversation website.
"(But) the politics...