Julia Banks

Julia Banks will help develop policies and programs at Gender Equity Victoria to improve gender equity in local, state and federal politics.

Former Liberal MP Julia Banks is leaving politics and has called out the “tribalism and toxic culture” in the Liberal party and politics.

Previous Liberal MP and now cross bencher Julia Banks admitted that the Liberal Party is decades behind the business world in relation to women.

What a week it’s been for women in politics (again), from emotional farewells to offensive depictions of women in the game.

The list of female candidates taking on blue ribbon seats at the next election is growing, with MP Julia Banks to take on Greg Hunt in Flinders.

Since announcing her resignation, Kelly O’Dwyer has faced ongoing trolling; labelled a ‘bitch’ ‘a dog’ and everything in between. We need to do better.

Liberal Minister Kelly O’Dwyer has declared she will be leaving politics at the next Federal Election due to family reasons, including her desire to have a third child, in a shock announcement made this afternoon. 

Julia Banks’s quitting the Liberal party & Sarah Hanson-Young facing more sexist innuendo in the senate just confirms Australia’s women-problem.

The Morrison government has been dealt a critical blow this morning, after influential MP Julia Banks quit the Liberal Party in favour of the crossbench.

The government announced plans to see the children of asylum seekers relocated from detention centres on Manus and Nauru by the end of 2018. 

Federal Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis has announced she is leaving Parliament due to bullying within the Liberal party. Another big blow for Scott Morrison.

The frontrunner for Liberal preselection in Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth had declared the party should preselect a woman instead of him.