Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds says the party has had a “women’s problem” for a “very long time”.
“People don’t realise or remember that for our first 50 years of our party’s history we were the party that the majority over 50 per cent of Australian women voted for,” Ms Reynolds told Sky News Australia.
“But that changed in 2001 and we’ve been progressively losing the women's vote to the point now where as you’ve said it’s under 30 per cent.”
She said if the Liberals can’t tackle the issue and listen to women about why they’ve been progressively turning away from the party, it’ll be statistically impossible to win majority government again.
