Cathy McGowan has denied assertions she is working with the National Party – or the Greens or Labor parties as was suggested at the last election.
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But the Indi MP pointed to campaign posters put up by Mr Mirabella himself when his wife Sophie was running for Indi in 2016.
“There was a fantastic poster in the last election saying ‘a vote for Cathy is a vote for the Greens, is a vote for Labor’ and now the Liberals are saying it’s a vote for the National Party,” she said.
“So next election I think a vote for orange could be a vote for a candidate that works with everyone and does exactly what the people of Indi want.”
Ms McGowan is yet to reveal if she will run for a third term.
She said Senator McKenzie’s moved showed how politics had changed since the days when no one paid attention to the safe seat of Indi.
“Now we’re in the position where one of the most high-profile women in the country is coming to Wodonga and may run here, there will be a fierce competition,” she said.
“How lucky can you be when your vote is going to count.
“There will be a choice of candidates from the far right, which is where I would say Bridget is, the Liberals will run a candidate who will probably be more centric and I will be the orange candidate in the middle to give people a choice about what sort of representation they want.”
Former New England independent MP Tony Windsor met with Ms McGowan in Wodonga on Friday and told The Border Mail he believed she should run again in the next election.
He had been in the region for the Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture forum in Beechworth on Thursday.
“They actually intelligently talked about the negative impacts of climate change, with a vibe in the room of how we positively deal with the mitigation,” he said.
“It wasn’t just let’s have a big whinge and all doom and gloom.”
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