{"id":70737,"date":"2026-02-15T05:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/australia-news-live-hume-says-opposition-would-resist-any-cgt-increase-high-profile-liberal-quits-party-saying-there-are-other-ways-i-can-support-women\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:38:55","slug":"australia-news-live-hume-says-opposition-would-resist-any-cgt-increase-high-profile-liberal-quits-party-saying-there-are-other-ways-i-can-support-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/australia-news-live-hume-says-opposition-would-resist-any-cgt-increase-high-profile-liberal-quits-party-saying-there-are-other-ways-i-can-support-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news live: Hume says opposition would resist any CGT increase; high-profile Liberal quits party saying there are \u2018other ways I can support women\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49513cc2479b10f8cf284bc16881b22b9824a242\/1845_1147_1338_1071\/master\/1338.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=8028e674220d9394a8133918de23a6b5\" alt=\"Australia news live: Hume says opposition would resist any CGT increase; high-profile Liberal quits party saying there are \u2018other ways I can support women\u2019\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Australia news live: Hume says opposition would resist any CGT increase; high-profile Liberal quits party saying there are \u2018other ways I can support women\u2019<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Meanwhile Angus Taylor refuses to be drawn on new shadow frontbench. Follow the latest updates liveCharlotte Mortlock, the high profile former Coalition staffer and leader of grassroots organisation Hilma\u2019s Network, has left the Liberal party, days after Sussan Ley was ousted by Angus Taylor.Hilma\u2019s Network was formed by Mortlock to bring \u201cLiberal-minded\u201d women together. Mortlock has been a vocal advocate for modernisation in the Liberal party, including pushing for the party to support net zero targets, and was part of a small team who designed a plan for gender quotas in New South Wales preselections.I have decided the time has come for me to step down as executive director of Hilma\u2019s Network and I have also relinquished my Liberal party membership.Due to recent events I have decided there are other ways I can support women and Australia.A reset on immigration is profoundly important. We want to see a lower number of<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/15\/federal-politics-liberal-party-angus-taylor-jane-hume-coalition-labor-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Australia news live: Hume says opposition would resist any CGT increase; high-profile Liberal quits party saying there are \u2018other ways I can support women\u2019 Meanwhile Angus Taylor refuses to be drawn on new shadow frontbench. Follow the latest updates liveCharlotte Mortlock, the high profile former Coalition staffer and leader of grassroots organisation Hilma\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}