Five points down Munro’s professional future hangs in the balance. So does her party’s reputation. If the Liberals reject the woman responsible for promoting other women within the party, they will reinforce perceptions that gave the Labor Party a five percentage point advantage among female voters at last year’s federal election. Liberal Robyn Preston hugs her Labor opponent, Peter Reynolds, during the 2019 election campaign. Geoff Jones Munro’s candidacy for the NSW election, which will be held March 25, is only possible because of an attack on another Liberal woman, Robyn Preston, by a man. In 1980, as a young...