With one seat left to be decided in Australia's 2016 federal election, one thing is already clear: for the next three years less than one third of our federal MPs will be women.
Malcolm Turnbull's government will have five fewer women than when Tony Abbott won the election in 2013.
With less than one third of parliament made up of women, Australia has fallen below what the United Nations regards as the 30% "critical mass" - the minimum level necessary for females to influence decision-making in parliament.
Australia ranks 54th in the world for representation of women in parliament.
Liberal senator Linda Reynolds says the Liberal party won't introduce quotas for female representation because they're a short term "quick fix".
.@lindareynoldswa nobody wants to be seen as the token person who is there as a quota. https://t.co/2nGi3hWdn4
"Nobody wants to be seen as a token person who's there as a quota... I find it quite demeaning," she told Sky News.
Critics argue there's only a semantic difference between targets and quotas, but the senator disagrees.
She says quotas are about filling a seat for the sake of numbers and the targets are about making "genuine and sustainable change" that a whole organisation can work towards.
The former chief of staff to Tony Abbott disagrees.
Peta Credlin says the Coalition’s policies are antiquated because only a handful of women help write them, and that's one big contributor to the party's recent disappointing election result.