Just nine women sit on the Liberal benches in the lower house while the party has 10 women in the Senate. It means the party's women problem has worsened in the nine years since it introduced a 50-50 gender target by 2026.
Factional in-fighting and the boys' club have continued to hamper efforts to reach the gender targets, Liberal sources say. It just takes a couple of high-profile people, like those two, to set us back [on meeting gender targets], said one NSW Liberal.
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