New New South Wales premier
Eva Cox suggests that Kristina Keneally’s win in the NSW Labor Caucus and thus her assumption of the premiership about 15 months out from a general election, that the ALP is likely to loose, is similar to the elections of Carmen Lawrence in Western Australia and Joan Kirner in Victoria during the 1990s. The women are left to clean up the mess.
Does this mean that, if women were elected to senior leadership positions in government in the first place, there would be no mess to clean up? Without strong integrity systems in place, someone is probably always going to clean up after somebody else.
Whether Keneally has been left to clean up the mess or not, the importance of providing younger women with role models through NSW now having a female preimer, female deputy premier, and a female governor I think is undeniable.
