Diana commented on El's question: “Surely, the men and other women in the Gillard government team had an equal or more than equal say in this issue, didn't they, El? Why shouldn’t the big polluters pay back some of the costs of their plundering to clean up the environment? As for bringing the budget back to surplus, once again the PM has listened to her mixed gender team and acted on the premise that - without huge austerity measures - it's totally unrealistic to have a budget in surplus in this highly uncertain global political, social, economic and environmental climate...”

Diana asked the question: “Given that union membership is at an all-time low and that young people feel that only tertiary educated career opportunists (often from the Labor aristocracy) are given paid jobs within the union movement: what steps have you taken to involve more young workers - employed and unemployed - in the union decision-making process through the ranks?”