Sarrah Le Marquand

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2,678 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Sarrah Le Marquand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Something To Talk About · Why Peta Credlin wanted Julia Gillard to succeed · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

And look, we're lucky. matched

Oh, that's right, because it's narrowing the pool, isn't it? matched

Absolutely narrow. matched

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Peter, once you graduated, as I understand it, you were then admitted as a barrister in the area. matched

It's such great advice and I think it's so important in something like the bubble, what we call the Canberra bubble, but for other industries as well that feel all matched

L the sliding doors moment, you say you had that moment, um, working in K's office where you thought, I'm not going to be standing by the photocopier uh as as a legal clerk. matched

Would you ever have imagined yourself in Canberra if no life matched

I wanted to ask you a little bit, Peter, about the general culture in Canberra as you recollect it. matched

Back then in the late 1990s, and you would stay in Canberra until 2015. matched

What were your observations as a young woman working in this matched

before previously, very unfamiliar environment. matched

As you say, you hadn't come from those political circles. matched

Yeah, it makes so much sense because then once that becomes the new machinery, the whispers and so-and-so or I could pick up so-and-so said this on TikTok, and that somehow becomes the basis of a substantial story. matched

People learn to manipulate the algorithm and get the stories out that they want and and you know, background against one another, as you say in a way there there was the technology. matched

And a lot of our focus, Sarah, and the policy. matched

it's I think a lot of people would find it surprising to hear that observation because in a lot of ways we think matched

generally as a country in a lot of workplaces in including in Parliament House in Canberra that the culture has improved. matched

And as you're talking about back then it felt like actually there was uh people were more civilized, there was a degree of decorum and uh transparency and and less sort of insidious uh uh matched

nature of communication, I think it would come as a surprise to a lot of people who would hope matched

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