Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for External Territories) Share this | Hansard source

No, stay as long as you like, son! But just make sure that you find a way to get more women into the parliament.

Mr Deputy Speaker—Mr Speaker, I beg your pardon. Congratulations, by the way! So it is a great moment in Australian history, this election. I have observed Territory politics for almost four decades, and the last government was the worst I had ever seen. There is no question about that, and the new government in the Northern Territory has a real challenge ahead of it because of the state that the Northern Territory was left in by the previous government—not the least of which is confidence in the government, because they were so adrift, so far removed, from the concerns of the Territory community—

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