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NewsMail Morning Edition Sat 08 Mar, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » Liberal MP tells party to embrace mandatory female quotas By political reporter Andrew Greene The Liberal Party should introduce mandatory quotas for women to help boost the number of females in parliament, according to Victorian Liberal backbencher Sharman Stone. Dr Stone, a long-serving MP, says the Liberal Party must do more to ensure women are pre-selected in winnable seats. She has suggested her colleagues should look to Labor for ideas about how to get more women into politics, and rejected suggestions from her colleagues that quotas will see "token" women in parliament. "I don't care about that 'tokenism' label; bring it on if you must. But we'll prove that it's not about a woman being simply put there because of her gender - she'll prove her worth," she said. "Put her in the place and stand back and watch her grow." 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