Parliament should ‘reflect ethnic and religious mix’ in society

Sky News host Rita Panahi says quotas for ethnicity, religious backgrounds, and other minorities must be contemplated if there’s a push for the “conservative side” to adopt gender quotas like Labor. Multiple Liberal MPs have come out in support of gender quotas after both the prime minister and science minister said on Tuesday they were “open” to the conversation. “If you are actually going to contemplate gender quotas for the conservative side like they’ve adopted in Labor, then you really have to talk about quotas for ethnicity, for religious backgrounds, for sexual orientation,” Ms Panahi said. “If the whole point of this is that the parliament should better reflect wider society, then it should reflect the ethnic mix and the religious mix.” Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au