Claire Kimball

Leighton, which is a beautiful little town in that seat, and Holbrook, which if you've driven from Sydney to Melbourne, you'll see the big submarine.

Used to be, but it's not anymore.

There's one big grey used to be a really big South Australian seat as well, which basically covered most of South Australia.

It's still a very, very big seat.

Getting around it if you're the MP is quite a feat.

And Lee had a real advantage in being able to charter and fly her own plane.

Water is a really big deal because the electric covers thousands of kilometres of the Murray and the Murrumbidgee rivers.

So when you're talking about the Murray-Darling Basin, the food bowl part, like this is high agricultural production, so lots of irrigators.

They have a real interest in the economic and environmental asset management of those rivers, how they're able to buy and use water and

And of course, there's all sorts of environmentalists who are interested in it as well because they have a real interest in how much water can be taken out of those systems to irrigate.

So it's a real issue in there and has been for a very, very long time.

Yep, and when, you know, these are big centres as well, so, you know, plenty of families who need to work and want to earn a living and do good things for their raising families, all of that.

Health is a really interesting one too because, of course, when you're looking at those cross-border areas –

particularly in Albury, Andrew, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent in hospitals in Albury, Wodonga's over the border.

There's always these concerns about how things are done, like cancer care, like maternity care, like palliative care, all of those sorts of things.

And, of course, this all comes back to the federal government.

The politicians who represent them certainly need to do their very best to make sure that the people who live there are serviced well.

Were very strong.

This is my personal anecdote.

I actually went and scrutineered votes for the National Party when Susan Lee won.