Catherine asked the question: “Women dominate the make up of and the engagement with local campaigns. For example women account for 70% of the High School for Coburg (Melbourne)campaign’s 455 facebook likers and nearly all the online engagement. Unfortunately these generous proportions are not reflected in the formal political realm. How do we enable this demonstrably very high level of local political engagement to extend further into and up the formal political structures? Is social media an important enabler? ”
