6 h. ago The Liberals need to be sufficiently assertive to fix their gender problem. Allow me to woman

Women don’t need protection. They need promotion. They need power. Recognising that is the best way for the Liberals to return to power themselves.

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4 d. ago Liberals firm on dumping Victorian elders after ‘assertive women’ comments

The Liberal Party’s federal executive will meet on Tuesday to consider the fate of the NSW division. Sources said the two Victorians in charge would be replaced.

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2 w. ago ‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

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2 w. ago Assertive women should join the Liberals: Sussan Ley slams reverse quota suggestion

Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale has been widely criticised for his comments about women.

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2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Liberal powerbrokers face backlash over ‘assertive women’ remarks; Kean warns on ‘projected shortfall’ on climate targets

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2 w. ago How to annoy Liberal women. Tell them they are ‘sufficiently assertive’

Former Victorian treasurer Alan Stockdale and former Victorian senator Richard Alston fronted the NSW Liberal Women’s Council on Tuesday night to argue why they should continue to run the troubled division.

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4 w. ago As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife

A young woman is suing the doctors who performed her gender treatment, claiming she could not have given informed consent.

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