The Home Affairs Minister is doubtful recommended gender quotas are valuable to reducing misconduct in parliament.

A number of allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment and bullying were brought to light in a final report into workplace culture and safety at Parliament House yesterday.

The report made 28 recommendations, including targets for gender balance for MPs.

Karen Andrews told Neil Breen she thinks there needs to be more female representatives, gender quotas shouldn’t be the method.

“My view is as a party, we need to have more women standing for preselection and we need more women preselected in winnable seats.

“As a female, I would say I hate it when it’s put to me that I’m only in a particular role because I’m a female.

“We’ve got to get the balance right of how we’re going to get more women into parliament, without them being seen as token women, because that is so hard to deal with.”

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