The 45th Parliament will get back under way with a day of ceremonies, official business of swearing in MPs and even a gun salute.

Ms McGowan made the drive from Indi on Monday for a series of meetings.

She met with Employment Minister Michaelia Cash’s staff around draft legislation created to protect volunteers, such as in the CFA, in workplace agreements.

“I’ve got a lot of questions, I want to know how that legislation will impact on volunteers in other organisations (like police and the SES),” she sad.

Now into her second term, the Indi MP said she wanted to keep her place on the agricultural innovation committee.

She was also a member of the LGBTI parliamentary friends group, which would meet this week to continue a push for the attorney-general to change laws around gender dysphoria.

Victorian laws state the Supreme Court must approve irreversible treatment for children, such as transgender children wanting to begin hormone blockers.

“We want to make it easier for the kids to go to their doctor or psychologist to start the process,” Ms McGowan said.

She said the group’s Liberal MP Warren Entsch, Labor MP Graham Perrett and Greens Senator Janet Rice agreed on the move, but the details were complex.

The Parliament has assured Ms McGowan she will keep her same seat in the House of Representatives from last term, but with Clive Palmer not returning, she will have a new neighbour.

“Personally I hope it’s (Nick Xenophon Team MP) Rebecca Sharkie, I’d like to sit next to another independent,” she said.

Farrer MP and Health Minister Sussan Ley has reignited the Mediscare debate on the eve of the new Parliament.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claimed during the election campaign his party wanted to “save Medicare”.

Ms Ley said a record 123 million out of 145 million GP services in the 2015-16 financial year were funded through Medicare and accessed by almost 500,000 more than the previous year.

“These figures expose the blatant and remorseless Mediscare lies Labor – under Mr Shorten’s leadership – have been telling the Australian public over the past 12 months,” she said.