Ley’s Liberals must not listen to Tony Abbott on gender quotas
The party’s first female leader has just five other Liberal women alongside her in parliament, and still these men are ruling out the one thing we know works.
First, some advice for the Liberal Party: if you’re looking to get more Liberal women into the parliament, and encourage more women to vote Liberal, then do not, under any circumstances, listen to Tony Abbott.
Tony Abbott, who as Liberal leader, when describing the attributes of a female candidate offered up her “sex appeal”.
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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.
