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Seated woman and man with microphones in front of audience

Woman and man standing close on a street and smiling off-camera

"I know how hard it is when you're up against an incumbent, in what has been a traditionally safe seat,"
Senator Pocock said.

crowd of people listening at a hotel bar

"Getting 250-plus people in a pub on a Friday night in Coffs Harbour to talk about politics is a pretty rare event," Ms Heise's campaign manager, Clancy Barnard
said.

Women clapping while surrounding another woman in federal parliament

Erchana Murray-Bartlett and David Pocock stand in front of large crowd wearing matching campaign t-shirts

Two photographers take photo of Caz Heise and David Pocock

Group of women wearing independent campaign shirts

"We try and be helpful and 'pay it forward,' because ultimately the bigger the movement gets, the more effective it is at improving politics and getting better policies in place,"
she said.

Two women and a man stand in front of Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin

A man stands at a CBD intersection

"They're not parties, but they definitely have party-like behaviour,"
he said.

Two women seated onstage

Man in orange shirt with woman in formal suit and orange umbrella with election campaign posters

"So is that going to be a political party, is it going to be a bunch of rich people, is it going to be a group of engaged citizens?"

Seated man speaking into microphone and gesturing

"They always want to be careful about it, because the thing they bring which is different is they want to be seen as independents and to be seen as acting as a party is a danger to them,"
he said.

"In which case, they may stop voting for the independent and vote Liberal."

Man gestures widely with hands while speaking to man and his teen son.

"I really like to challenge myself to be able to listen to what people are saying and keep an open mind,"
he said.
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