Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—Yesterday when speaking on the paid parental leave bill I related my mother's story of career and motherhood as I've always understood it to be. In the afternoon I sent my mum and dad the Hansard greens. Last night my parents called me to say they were impressed with and proud of my speech as parents do, but they also wanted me to know that I had made a small factual error. Although in the early seventies many professions still required women to resign when they got married, in New South Wales in 1971 that wasn't the case: married female teachers were allowed to continue to teach if they so chose. So I wanted to thank my mum and dad for giving me that information and the opportunity to clarify that to this House and also for reminding me of the golden rule: never relate a family history, even as you have always genuinely believed it to be, without fact-checking it with your mum first. Thank you.

Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Your mum will expect a very good present, I presume, this year!