News & Views Sussan Ley for Liberal leader? Is this the ultimate glass cliff? Sussan Ley could be elected as the next Liberal Party leader, but will it be the ultimate ‘glass cliff’ scenario?
News & Views Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defects to Liberal Party Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has announced she will leave the Nationals to sit with the Liberal Party in the upcoming parliament.
News & Views Liberal Party needs to have ‘hard conversations’ on women’s representation, Linda Reynolds says Linda Reynolds has labelled her party’s election loss a “comprehensive failure” and said the Liberal Party needs to look at quotas or targets for women.
News & Views Make the Liberal Party Great again? Nope. It’s time to make the Liberal Party itself again. The way forward for the Liberal Party isn’t to double down on reactionary politics. It’s to rebuild with integrity.
News & Views The next Liberal leader will need to bring the party back from the brink. Who will it be? Whoever wins will be tasked with leading the party after its worst result in history, something that will be no easy feat.
News & Views Running for parliament is still a man’s world, with fewer female candidates – especially in winnable seats Women are more likely to preselected by the major parties in seat that are difficult to win and precarious to hold.
News & Views Liberals pick gas group director to replace candidate who said ADF should ‘remove females from combat corps’ The Liberal Party has chosen a director of a pro gas group as its new candidate for the seat of Whitlam after it was forced to disendorse its previous candidate.
Local This Liberal Party candidate says the ADF needs to ‘remove females’ to ‘fix’ our military Ben Britton, a Liberal candidate for Whitlam, has claimed women should not serve in combat positions with the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
News & Views Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office? Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s bleakness is in a league of its own, writes Frank Bongiorno. Will fear be enough to push him into office?
Local Tech executive Gisele Kapterian wins Bradfield preselection over Warren Mundine Tech executive Gisele Kapterian defeated Nynggai Warren Mundine in the race to be preselected for the blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Bradfield.
Ed's Blog Liberals just keep pre-selecting far more men than women This is not a “women problem”. It’s failure to learn from past mistakes.
Soapbox The Liberal party needs more young women to vote for them. But why would we vote for men who call us ‘bitches’? Jeff Kennett’s use of the word “bitch” targeted at a woman at a Young Liberals event was not very mindful, nor demure.