'We're having good women standing for preselection and not being chosen' vicpol
One of the Victorian Liberal Party's most senior women MPs Mary Wooldridge is quitting politics, calling for her party to consider introducing gender quotas as she makes her departure.
The departure will give Liberal leader Michael O’Brien a timely opportunity to reshuffle his front bench in the new year but deprives the party, desperately short of women in Parliament, of an experienced and capable female frontbencher "I think what's happened in the past hasn't worked. We're having good women standing for preselection and not being chosen."
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