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The Liberal Party: caught in the gender trap?

30 October 2020

5:00 AM

30 October 2020

5:00 AM

While Australians are worried about actual problems like rising unemployment, the Liberal Party is worried about gender imbalance among its MPs.

It’s hard to believe that Australia’s conservative party would allow itself to be defined by progressive values, especially when progressives cannot even define the word “woman”.

But Liberals are allowing themselves to become convinced that anything less than 50 per cent of their MPs being women is inherently bad.

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