almost ah unheard of, for someone who was taking a strong anti-left position to win a popular election like that. So they... they really detested him. MARGARET KIRBY, SRC WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE 1978-1979: He wanted to smash the left and feminist forces. LIZ JACKSON: One of Tony Abbott's main targets was the SRC itself. He led an unsuccessful campaign against its compulsory student fees. TONY ABBOTT (to reporter 1979): I do not think that the SRC has been looking after student interests. Its policies have been extreme; they've been radical and they've been divisive. In fact, I think it can be said that all the SRC has done is give students a bad name in recent years. LIZ JACKSON: He wrote colourful accounts of the SRC in the student paper; this about the Women's Collective. (On screen text: I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons). LIZ JACKSON (to Tony Abbott): What do you think about those views now? TONY ABBOTT: Well, I just don't want to go over old ground too much Liz. Ah, I don't want to repudiate what was said, but I don't want people to think that what I thought as a 21 year old is necessarily what I think as a 52 year old. MALCOLM TURNBULL: Ah, not... not terribly well. He was a few years behind me,