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​Broadbent survives national swing
VETERAN MP Russell Broadbent has survived a national swing against the Liberal Party but the Monash electorate is now officially a marginal seat.

Candidate profiles

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​The times they are a-changing
Mat Morgan says something has changed when more people are having a go at their Liberal MP than at the guy in a Greens T shirt.

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Actions speak louder
Independent Deb Leonard decided to stop complaining about politicians and have a go herself. 

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All at sea
“I’m just a normal guy,” David Welsh (Australian Federation Party) told the candidates forum. Everything he said after that went to prove he was anything but.

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The contest of ideas
You can credit the socialist democratic paradise of Sweden for making Meg Edwards a Liberal Democrat.

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Take him or leave him
Liberal Russell Broadbent marches to his own beat, often annoying his own party as much as he does his opponents.

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One of us
One Nation’s Allan Hicken says he’s just a blue collar worker who wants the best for his kids.

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The true believer
Labor’s Jessica O’Donnell found her party at the age of 10 and has never wavered. 

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The paper candidate
The United Australia Party’s Christine McShane lives in Oakleigh but she has visited the Monash electorate!