Federal Labor will this week celebrate 30 years since the first quotas created to boost female representation in Australian politics, a milestone on the party’s road to gender parity.
Ahead of the anniversary of the 1994 ALP national conference in Hobart this month, women MPs will toast the historic voteon Monday night.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
