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PM Transcripts
It's great to be back in Adelaide.
The city of my childhood.
The city where I received such a great education.
The city where my parents gave me values for a lifetime.
Today we celebrate the legacy of a remarkable Australian, Don Dunstan.
Our nation has never seen a leader like him.
Today many remember Dunstan primarily for being colourful.
But we should also remember him for being courageous and clear-minded.
Dunstan saw our nation not just as it was, but as it could be. Dunstan built a community based on innovation, creativity and ideas.
I was shaped by the Dunstan era and its spirit of principled reform.
Let me assure you, I won't be wearing pink hot pants into parliament any time soon!
But I do profoundly share his belief that we can envision
a better future and embrace the reforms that will help take us there.
Dunstan understood that such leadership involved a choice between two pathways.
Defence of the status quo, based on caution and fear.
And an optimistic faith in the capacity of our people to embrace change.
I hold that optimistic faith to the core of my being.
It is my belief. It is Labor's belief.
Tackling the big challenges and building a nation of opportunity and prosperity for all.
We've done it before.
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Former Liberal senator says party must reform after 'deplorable' sexual assault allegations
One of the first prominent Liberal women to campaign for quotas, the former Victorian senator Judith Troeth, has urged state divisions to take action to improve the party’s culture, and says new sexual assault allegations involving staff are “absolutely deplorable”.
Troeth, who began a public campaign for quotas in the Liberal party in 2010, told Guardian Australia senior women in the Morrison government needed to use their positions to champion change. With a meeting of the Liberal federal executive due on Friday, Troeth said she hoped state officers “would stand up at the federal executive and demand action”.
Friday’s meeting is expected to discuss a report undertaken by party elders Chris McDiven and Brian Loughnane. That report, which is understood to be a couple of weeks shy of being concluded, has been undertaken in response to allegations of bullying that surfaced during last year’s conservative-led move on Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.
The inquiry has looked at existing internal processes for the resolution of disputes, and speculation points to it recommending a national code of conduct. Because the Liberal party has a federated structure, implementing it nationally may re