Tasmania's new Premier speaks for herself:
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During her press conference as premier today, Lara Giddings, 38, revealed a three-year-old's fear of a "bad man" led her into politics.
"(In) 1975, and a dramatic political event occurred in Australia with the dismissal of the Prime Minister. My mother, a very passionate Labor supporter ... was so upset she went to bed, literally, I think, for a week," she said.
"So as a little three-year-old, I'm obviously wondering what's gone wrong that my mum's so upset, and in my own analysis I decided that Mr Fraser must be a 'bad man'. And what do bad men do? They kill little children.
"So my mother very quickly said, 'No, no, no Lara, he doesn't kill little children, he just wouldn't hold your hand to cross the road.
"To me that sums up why I am a member of the Labor Party ... It is about helping people cross that road."
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