The women’s reshuffle | The Spectator Australia

Do a word search of the transcript of the Prime Minister’s reshuffle press conference yesterday and you will find the word ‘women’ cropped up a mere 102 times.

Women’s safety. Women’s equality. Women’s economic security. Women’s health and well-being. Women in the key national security roles of Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs. Women in cabinet in record numbers. Women being given more responsibilities. Women previously booted out of cabinet being brought in from the Siberia of the outer ministry.

Scott Morrison talked about post-Covid positioning, and about having the right team to ‘stand up for Australia, whether it’s against big multinationals or in our region’.

And the reshuffle does reward some sound…