Annastacia Palaszczuk's decision to change radically the gender make-up of the state's decision makers is good policy and smart politics.

And it's being noticed on the national stage, as much as in Queensland.

Smart, savvy, strategic female decision-makers are repeatedly overlooked - or not sought out - when decisions about top appointments are being made.

That, in part, is because it's made Tony Abbott's commitment to increasing female political representation look as though it's stuck in the 1950s.

And his entourage of female spokeswoman, lashing out at any suggestion of a quota, appear to be more concerned about bedding in a glass ceiling, than removing it.