Labor women outnumber men in the caucus. Why are they overlooked as Albanese’s potential successor?

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On Thursday, Kate Ellis was elevated to become Labor’s national president, leading for the first time an all-female team at the top of the party’s organisational wing, with two female vice-presidents. The former Rudd and Gillard government minister joins the Australian Council of Trade Unions president, Sally McManus, and its secretary, Michele O’Neill, as some of the most powerful members of the labour movement. But as the federal caucus, again for the first time, has more women than men, they barely get a mention in discussions about who will succeed Anthony Albanese. ‘Everyone wants to talk to her’ This term, Tanya Plibersek will become the longest serving woman of the…

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