'Because it's there' could never be enough of an explanation for entering politics. ... - Julia Gillard

We have got to get to grips with this, and we have to ask ourselves as feminists a fairly difficult and deep question about whether we have in our rhetoric and campaigning for gender equality been as careful as we should be to explain that actually gender equality will be better for everyone.

I know the Leader of the Opposition <nowiki>[</nowiki>Tony Abbott<nowiki>]</nowiki> has an unhealthy kind of obsession with the so-called "faceless men in the Labor Party"; what he really should be obsessed about is the useless men sitting behind him.

Here he [Abbott] is, trying to fudge one way and fudge the other; This morning he went out and accused me of a crime. Back it up or shut up.