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I think when it got really difficult
I would think about my Great Grandmother
who was the mother of twelve children,
had been married to a Prime Minister for nearly eight years,
so living in the Lodge, raising twelve children.
Eventually once he died, then went on to become
Australia's first female member of the House of Representatives.
If she could do all of that, then me being a single parent of one,
I could face anything
and she demonstrated to me, that women can achieve great things.
I was like a dog with a bone when I first started
learning about Government and politics at high school
and it stirred in me a passion for human rights
and for fighting for the underdog
and sensing injustice and wanting to do something to change it.
You need self belief, you need tenacity, you need the resilience
to pick yourself up and keep moving
and not allow disappointments or failures
to define the person that you're going to become.