It comes from both sides of politics. There were no women in the Parliament that convened here in 1901. Now there's over 50. I asked two young women MPs why they joined their respective parties. From their answers, it's clear that the core values that separate Labor and Liberal now are much the same as they always have been, at least in the minds of the players.
Labor has a totally different starting point to the others.
It starts with the people and their needs, rather than with the market or with the individual. And I am interested, and believe in, you know, the collective improvement of people's rights and interests and needs. For me the Liberal Party was about the individual. That's the bottom line. It wasn't about reducing things to the lowest common denominator.