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Scott Morrison sets up his own women’s network but will it solve his ‘women problem’?
Scott Morrison has brought two “lenses” to his ministerial reshuffle.
The first is the one that drove the shake-up initially: dealing with the problems presented by Christian Porter and Linda Reynolds.
The second, the “lens” on which Morrison is now primarily focused, is all about trying to manage the deep problem he and his government are facing with women’s anger and issues.
Minister for Women Marise Payne called it a “gender equality lens”.
Morrison wants to make his “women’s problems” — to the extent they can be addressed at a policy level — a whole-of-government challenge.
The situations of Porter and Reynolds have been resolved as expected. Porter goes from the nation’s first law officer to minister for industry, science and…
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