Female politicians of the centre-right face some of the most “disgusting vitriol online,” according to opposition leader Peter Dutton.
Dutton said that if Parliament hopes to attract more women candidates, then it needed to deal with the issue; otherwise, diversity of opinion simply would “not exist.”
“Today [the Liberal-National Coalition] have 10 women in the shadow cabinet, the same number as the government has for its cabinet, and 17 women all together in [the] outer and assistant shadow ministry,” he told Parliament on Feb. 8 on the one-year anniversary of the handing down of the Set the Standard report into federal Parliament’s workplace culture….