Thanks, Nellie Metcalfe and the Transport Workers Union – Vic/Tas, for bringing a lovely group of young Labor women to talk to me in my Parliament house office. I enjoyed engaging with their lively minds and answering their questions on range of topics-from the NBN to the disappointment of the budget, and from the arts to mental health and education. Underlying it all was the issue of women’s changing role in Australian society. It left me with the warm feeling that, if this sample is anything to go by, our future is in good hands.