I know that all my cabinet colleagues are committed to supporting upcoming female candidates in the Liberal party. Those involved with pushing for its creation hope it will give women interested in running for the Liberal party “greater support and more options”. The Liberal party has consistently turned away from any discussion of quotas, arguing that representatives should only be selected on “merit”. A spokesman for the federal Liberal party said encouraging women to run for the party remained a priority. “Senator Lucy Gichuhi joined the Liberal party room in February this year and the Country Liberal party has preselected women to run in both lower house seats in the Northern Territory.”

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2018 21:22 UTC