The heady days when Sydney women looked up to a female prime minister, female premier, governor and governor-general are long gone.
There is just one female cabinet minister in Canberra. And now the NSW parliament is likely to emerge from the next election with its worst result for women’s representation in the upper house in decades.
NSW Labor has ignored Labor’s rule that 40 per cent of candidates pre-selected for winnable seats must be women. The Nationals and Liberals' merit-based promotion of female candidates has similarly failed.
We invite our users to read the full article published on July 4th 2014.
The heady days when Sydney women looked up to a female prime minister, female premier, governor and governor-general are long gone.
There is just one female cabinet minister in Canberra. And now the NSW parliament is likely to emerge from the next election with its worst result for women’s representation in the upper house in decades.
NSW Labor has ignored Labor’s rule that 40 per cent of candidates pre-selected for winnable seats must be women. The Nationals and Liberals' merit-based promotion of female candidates has similarly failed.
We invite our users to read the full article published on July 4th 2014.