Malcolm Turnbull is overwhelmingly more trusted than Bill Shorten to lead the country in the final round of Indi focus group research among ‘soft’ voters in the seat.
Cathy McGowan is a community-minded representative who seeks to build her electorate’s capacity to respond to rural challenges.
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Indi has a potentially large number of floating voters at the local scale, mirroring the situation nationally. What do the people of Indi think about issues of trust?
Support for Cathy McGowan has strengthened notably since the last focus group discussion in May.
Cathy McGowan
Soft voters in the Victorian seat of Indi are strengthening their support for independent member Cathy McGowan, but many are inclined to balance that out by opting for the Coalition in the Senate.
The battle for the Victorian seat of Indi is shaping up as a three-way contest.
Former independent member for Wills, Phil Cleary, joins Sophie Mirabella and Cathy McGowan in photos at a Wodonga football match.
Sophie Mirabella/Pat Hutchens
Phil Cleary, left-leaning one-time independent member for Wills, and Sophie Mirabella, the former Liberal MP for Indi who is trying to regain the seat, are far from political soulmates.
Cathy McGowan rates strongly for fighting for Indi, being hard working, approachable, responsive and a good communicator.
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