Kudos to you!
I am more than half kidding but it is nice to have met this Senator and he listens to people like me - he is not even local but I met him through my brother. I take stuff from FR that I think he will find important and put them on his FB page. He is fairly centrist but is very much common sense. His name is Sen. John Madigan. The great thing for me is to have a resource like FR to get info from that I can pass on. So FR more than me could be influencing Aussie politics haha!