Liberal figures push for expiry dates on gender quotas in bid to win party support

Meeting in NSW to discuss proposal but pushback likely, with one new senator saying policy would ‘take the party backwards’

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Liberals pushing for changes to party rules to boost female representation in parliament will propose gender quotas with enforceable expiry dates, in a bid to win the broadest possible support for the plan.

Wednesday night’s meeting of the NSW Liberal Women’s Council is set to include preliminary discussions about gender quotas for party preselections, days after the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, said she was open to rule changes.

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