Aha! I am the scion of a family of autodidacts who tended to be skilled artisans, and a scholarship girl. The kind of folk who went to talks at the Mechanics' Insititute and joined libraries, back in Scotland and then here.

Yes, I think the ALP and Green paliamentarians -indeed most of them of any kind- are likely to be similar in background: law, commerce. I don't see these backgrounds as ideal at all: we have far too many of those. Student politics are not how they once were, either.