Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It certainly did not happen under a Liberal government. Now that that government is dead, fortunately this government can get on with the job of introducing paid parental leave. We will be able to do so without any help whatsoever from the lifeless form over there that calls itself an opposition. We know how stuck in the past it is, but I must say that, even knowing how stuck in the past it is, I was very surprised to read in the Age today of the attitudes—and I am sure even the current member for Higgins was surprised to read this—of some preselectors in the electorate of Higgins. It was reported in the Age today that Higgins is:

… “not a seat for a woman because it’s a leadership seat” …

It is not a seat for women, according to the preselectors in Higgins. Apparently some of these Liberal preselectors—

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