Former speaker and Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop says quotas and affirmative action in politics is ‘not good for women’ because they ‘become a permanent second-class citizen. ‘I would never ever want that said about me, and I would never ever want that said about another woman in the Liberal Party.’ Ms Bishop says Labor has put more women into parliament to meet their quotas but it has not been a political asset with the voters.
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