The NSW Young Liberals is pushing for a candidate selection model to get more women and people from non-Anglo backgrounds in Parliament, and fewer political hacks.

The youth wing has prepared a discussion paper which says there must be more CEOs, successful small business owners, top professionals and skilled tradespeople running for our party in winnable seats. The selection model the Young Liberals are proposing the party adopt is similar to one used by the British Conservatives.

President of the NSW Young Liberals Deyi Wu says the party must change how it selects candidates. Credit:Louise Kennerley

People who cant necessarily spend the majority of their time doing party political work as a virtual unpaid second job but who would capably represent and embody our partys values in Parliament, the paper says.

There must also be more women and more people from non-Anglo backgrounds.

The leader of the Liberals moderate faction in NSW, Energy Minister Matt Kean, said on Monday nothing else had worked to increase female representation and it was clear quotas had to be tried.

Quotas are a fast and effective way to get the Liberal Party to better reflect the community we seek to serve, Mr Kean said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week said he was very open to the idea of quotas for females.

In its paper Modernising our Candidate Selection Process, which will be sent to all Young Liberals for feedback before being handed to the partys governing body, there is a call for soft quotas through using candidates lists.

The basic idea of a candidates list is that there is a set pool of candidates (whether statewide, regional or in a local electorate) from which pre-selectors can choose, the paper, co-written by former Young Liberal president Chaneg Torres, said.

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