PRIME Minister Scott Morrison coined a twist on the phrase 'silent majority' when he claimed victory in the federal election.
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"The quiet Australians....have won a great victory tonight," the Liberal Party leader told supporters on the night of May 18.
But the hushed voters were not in North East Victoria, according to Indi MP Helen Haines who gave her first speech to federal parliament on Thursday.
"When some speak of the quiet Australians post this most recent election, I speak from an electorate who chose not to be quiet," Dr Haines told the House of Representatives.
"They chose to use their voice.
"Not to drown out the voices of others, but rather to hear the voices of others."
Dr Haines credited the Voices for Indi movement for that buzz and members of the Orange army were out in force in the public gallery for her speech.
The cheers that greeted her rising to talk were more typical of the noise you would expect at the conclusion of such an address.
Much of the oration was autobiographical with Dr Haines weaving across the lakes of her bush childhood, stint as matron of Chiltern hospital and Master's study in Sweden.
There was recognition for her predecessors in Indi and the electorate was labelled "as diverse and beautiful as the 142,000 people who live there".
But that landscape could alter with climate change, Dr Haines warned.
"We may well see the complete loss of the Victorian Alpine zone this century," she told the chamber.
Dr Haines showed her reformist outlook in calling for an the adoption of an Aboriginal voice in the constitution, an end to indefinite detention of asylum seekers and refugees and the adoption of a national integrity commission.
In a parliament where conservatives are in the majority, the former midwife is unlikely to see most of those ambitions reach a political delivery ward.
Nevertheless it is clear from her debut speech that the Prime Minister should not expect Dr Haines to be one of his quiet Australians in her new job.