I have this belief that women are more trustworthy than men, more resilient, more diplomatic, mentally tougher and stronger and far more reliable.

Women are less likely to fall for their own invincibility, less likely to believe their own rhetoric, more adept at negotiating outcomes and far less likely to get tangled up in clashes of egos.

Of course it wouldn't be uniform.

I've met women who favour power over results and all that comes with it in terms of ego driven belligerence.

But generally I would back women any day to get better outcomes than the typical alpha male.

So, that's my preamble to why we need more women in parliament.

We need more women because the blokes have been perpetuating incompetence in public life, and in government they leave it to female leaders like Lara Giddings and Kristine Keneally in NSW to clean up and then take the rap in the inevitable election loss.

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