Just a third of candidates are women and NSW premier says he is open to all ideas, including quotas
Jakimow said there needed to be more focus on other forms of diversity including class and background.“Running for an election is expensive and that can make it so much more difficult for women, and that often intersects with class and ethnicity.”
Newtown MP and Greens women’s rights spokesperson Jenny Leong said the Liberals needed to do some “soul searching” and work out why they were unable to meet their own targets while calling on the major parties to do better at preselecting women and diverse candidates into winnable seats. “We see that diverse candidates are preselected into marginal seats or completely unwinnable seats,” she said.
“It’s very clear when you see the makeup of the NSW lower house that it does not reflect the community. We need to increase the diversity in the chamber.”including five Climate 200-endorsed candidates, Larissa Penn in Willoughby and Karen Freyer in Vaucluse.
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