We now have a smart cookie in parliament:
"But at this stage, I'm quietly confident that things will go the right way, and that Labor will be returned. Assuming that happens, I hope everyone here will take a moment to think about what your work and your votes really mean.
Because of you, and what you've done tonight, children will have better schools. Because of you, people outside the big cities will have access to health services previously unknown in their lifetime, services many of them would die without. Because of you, some of the world's poorest asylum seekers will be treated humanely according to international law, when they set out with a dream every Australian should understand, because it's the same dream they or their forebears had in coming to this great country: the dream of starting again. That's what this election means."
