Liberal women are “incredibly worried” by a potential voter backlash to the ousting of the party’s first female leader, with the high-profile figure Charlotte Mortlock giving up her membership altogether. Just days after Sussan Ley lost the leadership, Mortlock announced on Sunday she was leaving the party and quitting Hilma’s Network – a grassroots group she established to bring “Liberal-minded women” together. A former Coalition staffer to Andrew Bragg, Mortlock has been outspoken in pushing the party to adopt a more progressive stance on the climate crisis, and called for gender quotas to increase female representation to 50% in the
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