Sussan Ley encourages ‘assertive women’ to join Liberals in rebuff to party elder’s controversial comment
by Australian Associated Press from on (#6XRQR)
Former federal president Alan Stockdale reportedly claimed women had become so assertive' the party might need to consider extra support for men
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The opposition leader has encouraged assertive women" to join the Liberals, hitting back at controversial comments made by a party elder.
Sussan Ley, the first female leader of the Coalition, said the Liberals must reflect a modern Australia after the party's former federal president Alan Stockdale reportedly claimed women had become so assertive" that the party might need to consider extra support for men.
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