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On the back of the recent US election, this week’s episode features Hon. Sandra Nori, the former NSW Minister of Sport/Recreation and Women. We hear a few of the things Sandra learnt in the bear pit of the parliamentary floor, how she harnessed her ambition and what advice she would give to younger people. Hon. Sandra NoriPolitics was in Sandra’s blood.She wanted to be an MP from primary school.So she followed her heart and after years of grinding work and door knocking she was elected as the Minister for Sport and Recreation and Women for 17 years in the NSW Parliament.The hardest thing was getting the confidence in the first place to say you are good enough. But once she started…. she didn’t stop.In the bear pit of Australian politics Sandra learnt how to communicate. She learnt how to be heard by the male parliamentarians - to be taken seriously to get her reforms pushed through the parliamentary floor she learnt to give no extraneous information and keep very focused on each point.  She found she had to s