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| @drkerrynphelps, 9 March 2019 |
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
10 April 2018:
Sixty-eight per cent of
the current federal parliamentarians are men, and that’s the best statistic we
can squeeze out of them. Eighty per cent of the government MPs and 78 percent
of cabinet ministers are men. Seventy-nine per cent are of Anglo-Celtic
background and 70 per cent of the parliament are between 40
and 60 years of age.
Most of the state
parliaments aren’t much better. South Australia is the worst, at 67 per cent
men. NSW is not far behind at 61 per cent. Tasmania and the two territories are
the only ones close to parity.
Interestingly, in every
state and territory, except South Australia and New South Wales, the Labor
Party is close to an even gender split. The Liberals and Nationals, however,
hover between 75 and 80 per cent men in every state but Tasmania, middle aged
white men, being only one tenth of the population, are over represented at a
ratio of about six to one in government.
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