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| Lucy Gichuhi makes first speech in Senate – politics live | |
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| Given Lucy Gichuhi’s key role on the crossbench, everyone came to the chamber. It was a longish speech so it pinned everyone in the senate, including Turnbull and Shorten and the education minister who presumably still has school funding business to transact. | |
| I must say though, it was a delight to hear about her childhood in Kenya, her upbringing and her transition to Australia. | |
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| Both leaders have visited the senate for Lucy Gichuhi. | |
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| Lucy Gichuhi talks about her childhood in Kenya, spending time with her grandmother in her hut with goats and chickens. She talked about the stories by the fire. | |
| There was so much laughter and stories about anything and everything, including the Mau Mau uprising. | |
| She told me the only part of a woman should use to make money is her brains. | |
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| Gichuhi says corporate welfare model should be traded for a more sustainable approach. | |
| I have learned that spending money you have not worked for an inhibits your capacity for becoming all you could be. | |
| She agrees with Malcolm Turnbull’s statement that the best form of welfare is a job. | |
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| Gichuhi says for a while, she and her husband - an accountant -had no work. She says she was scared of getting welfare because she wasn’t used to getting money for nothing. | |
| I could choose to be a victim and receive a hand out for a long time, or I could find a job and learn how to balance work and family life. | |
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| Lucy Gichuhi talks about her cultural dislocation in moving to Australia. She and her family moved into an Adelaide house with a vacuum cleaner on the wall. She didn’t know what it was and instructed her children not to touch the tortoise shaped thing. When a real estate agent inspected the place, he complained about the carpet and suggested she vacuum. I don’t have one, she said. He pointed to the tortoise on the wall. | |
| The floor was spotless before he left. | |
| She uses it as an analogy for the misunderstandings between different cultures. | |
| Gichuhi is a lawyer and talked about how hard it is balance work and home life, for parents raising children, especially single parents. She talks about the difficulties for families. | |
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| Lucy Gichuhi says her father taught her to aim for the sun and land on the moon. | Lucy Gichuhi says her father taught her to aim for the sun and land on the moon. |
| She talks about having no shoes as a child but she says she learned true poverty was being unable to freely choose your own destiny. | She talks about having no shoes as a child but she says she learned true poverty was being unable to freely choose your own destiny. |
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| Gichuhi says Australia has shown her the strength of diversity. | Gichuhi says Australia has shown her the strength of diversity. |
| I learned how beautiful it is when differences bring us together...I am proud to be a black African Australian. | I learned how beautiful it is when differences bring us together...I am proud to be a black African Australian. |
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| Senator Lucy Gichuhi is making her first speech. She says she is proud to be the first black African senator in the Australian senate. | Senator Lucy Gichuhi is making her first speech. She says she is proud to be the first black African senator in the Australian senate. |
| She was born and raised in Kenya. | She was born and raised in Kenya. |
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| I should clarify this hours motion is taking hours because there was first a suspension motion, then a closure motion and now the hours motion. | I should clarify this hours motion is taking hours because there was first a suspension motion, then a closure motion and now the hours motion. |
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| The hours motion is taking hours. | The hours motion is taking hours. |