Clive Palmer (Fairfax, Palmer United Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Canadian Prime Minister is supporting a gender balanced cabinet because 'it is 2016'. Women received the vote in our country in 1902, yet there are still few women in cabinet. Talents and abilities are distributed equally. Domestic violence destroys our families for lack of role models. I do not accept that merit is not distributed equally. Will the government support gender equality in cabinet, with each gender entitled to a minimum of 40 per cent representation?

Mr Ewen Jones interjecting—

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