I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.
There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.