The former prime minister says he wants his party to pick more women, yet last month he backed a conservative senator who was trying to roll a senior female colleague.
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The former prime minister says he wants his party to pick more women, yet last month he backed a conservative senator who was trying to roll a senior female colleague.
Former prime minister Abbott, who has a chequered history on gender relations, rejected quotas for the Liberal Party but said it needed greater ethnic and gender diversity.
Former prime minister Abbott, who has a chequered history on gender relations, rejected quotas for the Liberal Party but said it needed greater ethnic and gender diversity.