Malcolm Turnbull—our now disgruntled former prime minister—believes that that the Liberal Party “absolutely” has a woman problem. And, somewhat unsurprisingly, Turnbull argues that the answer is to adopt the Labor Party policy of having a 50-50 male-female split on preselection panels. According to The Guardian:
Turnbull said that when the Liberal party had been founded by Menzies and others, it united several women’s organisations under the Liberal banner, of which resonances still existed: in some divisions, there was constitutional provision for male and female vice-presidents of divisions or branches.
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