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West Australia Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has announced she will retire from federal parliament at the next election in 2025. 

The former cabinet minister has spoken out about sexual harassment from a male colleague in Parliament House.

Isn’t it wonderful that the bearer of the country’s highest office believes the status of women is so important that he needs to personally take on the responsibility for progress and change? Isn’t that the obvious take-out message from our new PM’s self-appointment? Tony Abbott made it clear during the election that Team Abbott would be a government that offers real change.

Our new PM has described as ‘unfortunate’ the fact that there is only one woman in the Coalition Cabinet and six in the 42-strong Ministry (14.