Labor now has 23 more female MPs across all state and territory parliaments than men, while the coalition has 101 fewer women than men.
The federal parliament is now almost perfectly split, with 114 men and 112 women in the House of Representatives and Senate combined.
It's now ten years since both major parties announced a target of having at least 50% women in the nation's parliaments and seven years since former Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer began a fund to address her party's "women problem".
Labor achieved 50% female representation in 2022.
In 2025, just 33% of Liberal MPs across Australia are women.
Key findings:
Across all Australian parliaments, 67% of Greens MPs are women, as are 53% of Labor MPs, 40% of minor party and independent MPs and 33% of Liberals and Nationals.
In the House of Representatives, there are 69 women, a new record. Of them, 50 are Labor members but just 6 are Liberals. There are now fewer female Liberals than independents (8) in the lower house.
The Liberals have only six more women parliamentarians across all of Australia's parliaments than they did a decade ago – and it is only the fall in the number of male parliamentarians that has brought the Liberal party rooms up to 33% women.
"It's incredible to see that gender parity in the Australian parliament is finally within reach," said Skye Predavec, Anne Kantor Fellow at The Australia Institute and author of the report.
"It is disappointing that the progress in women's representation is not reflected in all parties, especially the Liberals and Nationals.
"Ten years ago, the Liberal and Labor parties set the same target for gender representation: 50% of parliamentarians to be women by 2025. But last month, while Labor surpassed that target for the second election in a row, the Liberal ranks remained two-thirds male.
"The number of Liberal women would have to double overnight for the Liberal Party to reach its 50% gender parity target.
"If women aren't represented in the opposition, the already growing problem of political polarisation and disaffection can only increase."
