The minister for superannuation acknowledges that Australians are going to live through a hell of a campaign.
’s mother would love. The reason, explains the Superannuation Minister and Coalition rising star, is the Canberra restaurant’s decor: carpeted floors and soft cream-coloured furnishings.
She says Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a rock star-like reception when she was campaigning with him in Melbourne’s south-east in February. In 2019, Hume, far right, was part of a group of Coalition women politicians, dubbed “ScoMo’s Angels”, who joined him for the announcement of his climate change policy.Some of these candidates will win. But many are in safe Labor electorates, and the Liberal party will still go into the next term of parliament with fewer women in its ranks than Labor.
“I was much more interested in beers and boys than changing the world,” says Hume about her lack of interest in student politics.“Quotas certainly make a difference to numbers, no doubt,” says Hume. “They do make a difference to culture, no doubt ... The problem is, though, quotas work because somebody at the top says, ‘This is what we’re going to do.’
Raised in Melbourne’s affluent inner-east, Hume attended the prestigious Lauriston Girls’ School, before completing a commerce degree at the University of Melbourne. “I always found the student Liberals – when I was at university the first time – to be a bit intimidating,” she says. “They were so strident, so angry, and so certain of everything.
“I’d read in the newspaper there was going to be a cast of thousands,” says Hume. “Just having learnt about all of this stuff theoretically at university, I thought, ‘This could be fun, what an interesting experience’, and I put my hand up.”Only four people ran, including the winner, Michael O’Brien, who eventually became the party’s state leader. Hume says he was a known quantity.
“I don’t think he was impressed or convinced,” she says. “He said, ‘Who’s supporting you?’ ... and I said, ‘My parents,’” laughs Hume. “How embarrassing. I was very naive.” “I’m really proud of [those reforms], and I don’t think [people] are going to thank me, but I’ll know,” says Hume. ”I think that freedom, choice, personal responsibility, and the primacy of the individual and small businesses, that’s my true north.”
On Mother’s Day in 2018, Hume published a lengthy Facebook post discussing the difficulty of juggling politics while being a mother to three kids. She says she felt frustrated by the messages. “Frustrated more at the distraction they would cause rather than the content.
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