As the 44th Parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday, more than a quarter of its members will be newcomers. But who are the ones to watch?

One measure of your worth as a politician is how much time your opponent puts into putting out dirt files on you. By that judgment new Reid Liberal MP Craig Laundy has value. Having spent 23 years working in his family's hotel empire, Mr Laundy is something of a Liberal golden boy after breaking the 91-year Labor hold on Reid in Sydney's west.

Legendary: Fiona Scott worked hard to secure her new position as the Lindsay MP. Credit:Geoff Jones

New Liberal MP Peter Hendy, who's taken the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, is being feted as one to keep an eye on. Mr Hendy has a formidable policy background, having begun his career as a cadet economist with Treasury, then serving as chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as an adviser to now Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Also in NSW is Liberal and new Lindsay MP Fiona Scott, who made waves when Prime Minister Tony Abbott said she had ''sex appeal''. Her work ethic during the campaign was legendary. She reportedly knocked on 25,000 doors to wrest the seat from David Bradbury.