A key internal pressure group has made its first call for gender quotas as the party’s most senior woman urges female voters to give her party “another look-in”.
Scott Morrison’s health minister, Greg Hunt, has urged the Liberal Party to pick more women and diverse MPs, arguing his party does not fully reflect Australian society as it nominates female candidates for just a quarter of recent preselections.
“We do not, at this stage, represent the diversity that our fraternal parties do. We are making progress but we can do more,” said Hunt, whoThe latest data on Liberal candidate selections shows 27 per cent of incumbents and new candidates picked so far are women. In 11 of Labor’s most marginal seats, the Coalition has so far picked eight men and three women.
“After the election, if we don’t see a seismic improvement, I don’t see how anyone with genuine commitment to increasing female representation couldn’t call for quotas.” In Melbourne, party chiefs must decide whether to re-open preselections in the Labor-held seat of Chisholm, which the Liberal Party lost at the last election.Councillor Theo Zographos is the Liberal candidate, but Katie Allen wants to run in the seat because the seat of Higgins, which she lost at the last election, was abolished by the electoral commission.
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