Overview
- Charlotte Mortlock announced she has stepped down as executive director of Hilma’s Network and relinquished her Liberal Party membership.
- Her decision came two days after Angus Taylor defeated Sussan Ley for the Liberal leadership in a 34–17 party-room vote.
- Mortlock helped draft a plan to boost female representation that proposed a 40% target for women, reserving some NSW seats for women-only preselections, and requiring at least half of preselection candidates to be women.
- The NSW branch removed a planned state council vote on the quota proposal, and the federal review of the 2025 election remains unpublished.
- Hilma’s Network said Victorian representative Erin Watson will take over as chief executive, while Deputy Leader Jane Hume called Mortlock’s exit a sad moment for the party.