Australia's Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says he doesn't believe in gender quotas for political parties.
Leader of the conservative faction of the Liberal Party's conservative New South Wales branch, Taylor vied for federal leadership after the May election loss.
Ultimately the baton was passed to Sussan Ley, who said earlier this week she plans to be "zealot" about increasing the number of women within the party.
However, she would not specify a quota or number and currently there are still only six women out of 28 total Liberals in the House of Representatives.
Taylor echoed the opposition to quotas today, speaking to ABC Radio National, stating that they “subvert democracy”.
But Mr Taylor, who leads the conservative wing of the party's NSW branch, said he opposed quotas because they "subvert democratic processes" within the party.
"I think there are better ways of achieving this … Mentoring, recruitment, support is the way to make sure you have talented people," he said.
“We absolutely need more women in the party at every level, whether it's members of our branches, whether it's on our executives, whether indeed it is as members of parliament, and I think there's a huge job for us…I have never been a supporter of quotas."
