Krishani Dhanji
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118 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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The names are Jim Chalmers, the names are Mark Butler, it's Tony Burke, it's sometimes Chris Bowen.
It's very occasionally Tanya Plibersek, but we're not really having a conversation about who are the next women, who will be the next Julia Gillard.
It's a really fascinating set of circumstances, Rafka, because what we've sort of seen is Labor does have a huge number of women in its caucus.
It's more than 50% women in the caucus.
There's more than 50% women in the cabinet.
And yet...
When we have this conversation, which the media loves to do around who's going to be the next leader, when you talk to people internally within the party, it's very much sort of centred on the men that will take over next.
The names are Jim Chalmers, the names are Mark Butler, it's Tony Burke, it's sometimes Chris Bowen.
It's very occasionally Tanya Plibersek, but we're not really having...
a conversation about who are the next women, who will be the next Julia Gillard, for example, who's going to be the next female prime minister coming from Labor.
And it's something that I'd sort of noticed for a little while and that kind of came to me the other day.
And I was like, why aren't we talking about the women in the party?
Because we have so many senior women.
And as I said, the cabinet is more than 50% women.
So why aren't we having that conversation?
And there are, what I found, quite a number of factors that go to the makeup of the factions, who are the factional leaders, who is aligned with Anthony Albanese, who's not.
Those are the sorts of questions now that need to be answered that lead to this question.
It's a question that we love to talk about no matter what.
Albanese is in the middle of his second term as leader.
The sort of expectations are from most people that if things don't kind of drastically change,
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