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The Liberal and National Coalition already has quotas based on geography and based on factions … That is how they form the cabinet, that is how they have formed it for decades. But when it comes to quotas for women or for equity groups, that is a question of merit.

The entitlement and the discrimination underpinning that argument is just unbelievable. And the fact is that a quota works. I am a beneficiary of quotas and I can tell you they work because they force powerful people in the party, powerful men in the party, to look around and give these things more thought and consideration.