‘Not good enough’: Perrottet vows to increase number of women preselected for Liberals in lower house

Just a third of candidates are women and NSW premier says he is open to all ideas, including quotas

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Women account for just a third of the lower house candidates preselected by the Liberal party ahead of the 25 March state election – putting them behind Labor’s 45%, the Greens’ even split and their own target of 40%.

The premier, Dominic Perrottet, conceded his party was falling short and it was not good enough, saying he wanted half of all candidates pursued at the next election to be women, and insisting he was open to all ideas, including quotas.

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