Here is why Boele said she ran:

In recent history, the three key assumptions most of us accepted were that democracy could closely coexist with more or less unfettered capitalism, that it could be successfully navigated between technocracy and ideology, between cultural warriors and pragmatists, and that externalities like climate change and global conflicts could be ignored.

None of these assumptions are correct. And worse, they’re likely misleading. Distractions from the real challenges that we face. My three decades of working in finance energy and climate has shown me that capitalism needs well functioning democracies, ones where governments set clear rules, where independent institutions referee those rules, and where the rules are efficient and effective to protect the citizens and the consumers from bullies, scammers and corrupt actors.

Market players cannot effectively contribute to a strong economy amid uncertainty, when the direction of play is unclear, or when the rules of the game are changed, every time the red and the blue team change the captain’s chair, and with them, they take their ideologies and their special interests.

And what’s more, and I’ve heard this over and over again from the people of Bradfield, there’s a widespread conviction that political parties and therefore the parliament itself, are incapable of dealing with systemic, long standing issues.

We fail to properly regulate online media platforms. We fail to implement the reform agenda necessary to act on climate change, the existential crisis of our time we tinker around the edges of housing affordability, Australia’s gambling addiction, and making our taxation system fairer. And worse still, even if there is an inquiry or a commission that delivers a report, which is a thoroughly public and deliberative process, our parliament, the parties that comprise it and the special interests that they represent usually fail to deliver on the recommendations Gonski on education. Samuel on the environment, Henry on tax, Sackville on disability.

I could go on.