Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the member for O’Connor up the back there. He has tried to sum it up this way today. The member for O’Connor said: ‘Well, look, brighter people have brighter children. I mean, and, um, you know, I make the sporting analogy: faster racehorses get faster racehorses.’ Well, according to the member for O’Connor, their great contribution to family policy in Australia—the great contribution from the member for O’Connor—is to compare mothers to horses. Thank you so much! What a bunch of absolute dinosaurs opposite. Australian families have been waiting decades for paid parental leave, and this government will deliver it to them.

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