Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I just want to make some comments about the 48th Parliament being a historic gender-equal parliament: 112 women out of 226 MPs and senators—so 49.56 per cent overall. Women are 46 per cent of the MPs in the House of Representatives. Here in the Senate, women senators are 56.6 per cent of senators. In the Labor caucus, 56 per cent of Labor members and senators are women—69 out of 123 members. A majority of Labor's cabinet are women members. We have a gender-equal cabinet at 52.2 per cent. A majority of Labor's representatives in the House of Representatives are women, 53 per cent of Labor's MPs are women, as are 50 out of the 94 members in the other place, and, here, 19 of the 29 senators are women. The reason this is important is that it makes a difference when it comes to delivering for women around the country.