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She spoke of her frustration, saying she was diligently attending every party meeting, every committee meeting and keeping her ears open as she walked the halls of power within Parliament House and yet she was missing something.
“Eventually I realised that there were all these sporting events happening, cricket was the main one, and for some reason I wasn’t getting invited, and that really upset me,” she said.
Ms Giddings said she asked for a ticket, received one, and soon found herself drinking wine while the men drank beer at what had been an inner sanctum within the Chairman’s Lounge at Bellerive Oval.
“I stood and deliberately included myself in those conversations with the men, and that’s where it was all beginning,” she said.
“It was that informal conversation that I had been missing out on.
“The deals weren’t being done in the Chairman’s Lounge but they were certainly beginning there, and that’s where I had to catch up.”
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