Candidate quotas is a system in which political parties are penalised for not running a certain percentage of women candidates for office. In 2012 legislation was introduced which would have required parties to field at least 30% women candidates at the next election and 40% at the election after that. If a party failed to meet these thresholds they would lose half of their public funding. Women currently make up 24.7% of the lower house and 38.2% in the upper house. Of 189 developed countries Australia currently ranks 46 out of 189. Proponents of quotas argue that they help promote gender diversity in government and are responsible for a 20% increase in the proportion of women in parliaments worldwide.
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Response rates from 13.2k Green Politics voters.
68% Yes |
32% No |
57% Yes |
15% No |
11% Yes, our government should reflect the diversity of our society |
9% No, diversity should be encouraged but not forced |
8% No, the most qualified candidate should get the position regardless of gender |
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@4Z95LKV4yrs4Y
Yes & indigenous candidates
@4Z94GH24yrs4Y
no. it is sexist to concentrate on one gender
@8KQTQDK4yrs4Y
It shouldn’t matter the gender as long as there fit for the job
@96JFKYH2yrs2Y
@B4BPF7T1 day1D
No, but parties should be allowed to mandate it if they so choose. While we should encourage diversity, we should be wary of having a balance between diversity of ability and merit of ability.
@B4B7PQV2 days2D
Yes, until such time as they aren't rife with corruption and sexism, because the most qualified candidates aren't getting the position regardless of gender
@B3VT9GB3wks3W
This shouldn't be mandated by the state. How individual parties choose to handle this question should be a metric of how you judge that party.
@B3TRV693wks3W
This is a distracting non issue when the majority of women in power or who can get into power don't support working class women (the majority of women).
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