As The Australian’s 2019 Power List reported, there are only a couple of women among Scott Morrison’s “inner circle” of friends and advisers. Nor is there a surfeit in his parliamentary team. The Liberal Party has always resisted quotas for women, but it has not put enough effort into identifying and preparing women for preselection to obviate the need for them. The lack of electable women representing the party is compounded by a lack of female strategic input. Slowly but surely this is adding up to a lack of women voters.

Scott Morrison is not a misogynist, what he lacks is a female inner circle