CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Labor is returning to the 2025 election with more women than ever!
As the Liberal Party face a tidal wave of female independents challenging their safest seats, it seems the traditional Coalition voters are sick of the very clear ‘woman problem’ that Peter Dutton has not been able to resolve since the Morrison era.
Labor, doesn’t necessarily have this problem. With enough high-profile women like Senator Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher in major cabinet positions, the Albanese Government has been able evade accusations of harbouring a boys club.
Statistically, Labor is far closer to genuine parity than any government before them. As it stands, in the lower house, 48% of Labor members are women (37 of 77). In the Senate, 65.4% of Labor senators are women (17 of 26).
But still, leading into an election to an Opposition who’s only major women’s policy platform centres around the fictional epidemic of transgender women’s athletes – Labor needs to flood the zone with sheilahs.
Of the 23 candidates that Labor are putting forward at the 2025 election, 19 of them are women. In an election that looks increasingly like it could result in a hung parliament, it’s clear that many of these spritely young corporate lawyers are better off not quitting their day jobs.
But for optics, even the dead rubber need to be a women.
Like the supremely high-functioning young mother that has been pre-selected for the outer Betoota seat of Yawannagokhunt.
With three kids and a stay-at-home husband, 40-year-old Rebecca Cook is in a prime position to be elevated in Federal legislating
Unfortunately, Rebecca’s electorate is made up of mostly post-war property investors and young men who get their news from 3 and hour podcasts on YouTube. Without a decent Independent candidate in Yawannagokhunt, it’s currently Rebecca versus a 62-year-old Liberal Party freemason by the name of John Smith.
Short of Peter Dutton being exposed as a Chinese spy, this seat will be safely retained by the Liberal Party.
It is not yet clear why Rebecca Cook would bother dedicating six weeks of her young adulthood on an unwinnable election campaign, or if this electorate even has a Labor branch. As far as any of the locals concerned, she could simply be an A.I image plastered on a placard at the polling booths.
Either way, sending Rebecca Cook into knee-high mud at the Battle Of Somme is still a better look than the Opposition sitting at 31% women in both houses.
