Rudd Ministry
Just over 10 years ago the Australian Labor Party was drawing back on a satisfying post-coital cigarette after the men and women of its number joined together to embrace an affirmative action rule.
They were heady days, externally at least. Helen Reddy’s I Am Woman blared out on the conference floor in Hobart, with smiles for the cameras right across the chromosomal spectrum.
I remember a telling conversation back then with former Senator John Quirk about one of those messy pre-selection stinks which the South Australian branch had mastered following the collapse of the once-ascendant Centre-Left faction. Showing a degree of enthusiasm for Emily’s List shared by many male colleagues, Senator Quirk, who in his spare time was a keen goat shooter, captured the personnel challenges now facing the party.
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