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Flat White

Gender quotas bite Labor hard

18 July 2022

9:00 AM

18 July 2022

9:00 AM

It is going to be extremely difficult to write this while maintaining an air of sympathy – so bear with me.

According to The Australian over the weekend, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Queensland Labor government is set to ‘force’ (politely nudge?) three of its male MPs to resign so they can balance out the gender quotas in preselection.

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