Kingmaker or not, the new member for Indi is determined to shift the dial in Canberra
by Katharine Murphy Political editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4J5KQ)
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It might seem ambitious for an incoming House of Representatives crossbencher to be talking about changing the conversation about power in Australia, but Helen Haines is determined to try.
"We've had a conversation in Australia that is so fundamentally steeped in what power looks like, and I guess by reducing it in so many ways to numbers, we've eliminated I think what traditionally democracy is about, which is about representation," the member for Indi tells the Guardian Australia politics podcast.
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