McMillan is a swinging seat in south-eastern Victoria, stretching from the fringe of Melbourne to the Latrobe Valley and the Bass Strait. McMillan covers towns such as Moe and Pakenham as well as South Gippsland and parts of the Bass Coast. It reaches as far south as Wilsons Promontory. The seat has been held by Russell Broadbent since 2004. Broadbent also held a seat in Parliament twice in the 1990s, losing the seat both times after a single term. Broadbent developed a reputation for independence in the final years of the Howard government as part of a group of Liberals who rebelled against the Howard government’s refugee policies. He holds the seat by 4.8% after suffering practically no swing at all at the 2007 election.
