Politics Budget 2017: Six areas that could affect your financial position It’s Budget Day! These are the predictions affecting women you need to know about, thanks to Financy founder and editor, Bianca Hartge-Hazelman.
Uncategorised ‘Shameful neglect’: Cutting foreign aid will merely hurt women and girls Tuesday night’s Federal Budget looks set to see further cuts made to foreign aid, according to a number of reports today, in a move that has been slammed by those working with some of the most vulnerable communities in the world.
Ed's Blog We’re ‘budgeting like it’s 1983’: Bring back the Women’s Budget Statement With the Federal Budget just days away, a number of women’s organisations and alliances have come together to call on the Government to reinstate the Women’s Budget Statement, and offer an overview of how budget allocations are affecting women’s rights.
Politics Concerned about unconscious bias? You just don’t believe in Australia Our former Prime Minister is not happy.
Uncategorised Earning 20% above the minimum wage? Congratulations! Now pay off that degree, save for a house, sort out your retirement and find somewhere to live I’ve said it beforebut I’ll say it again.
Ed's Blog We must make paid parental leave women in small business friendly What happens when you run a small business, and give birth?
Politics How women in Australia gained the right to vote. How women in Australia got the right to vote. It was no gift, it was the result of concerted activism led by a group of white, middle-class, urban women.
Uncategorised Who has time to buy a house anyway? The stress, debt and hard work ahead for the 22-year-old woman Senator Derryn Hinch believes that owning your own home is not a ‘right’ in Australia, but rather a ‘dream’ that everybody wants to achieve.
Uncategorised When men talk gender diversity and the lies that are told to women I’m not going to thank men for attending women’s conferences and events.
Politics George Brandis offended at being called a ‘white’ man as Section 18C changes voted down The Senate has rejected changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act that would have seen it weakened through replacing the words “offend, insult or humiliate” with “harass” and “intimidate”.
Politics Penalty rates gave me independence & the chance to escape poverty. Penalty rates held out a promise that if we worked hard just maybe we might escape the poverty trap which is why cutting penalty rates hurts.
Soapbox Wendy McCarthy: It’s 3 steps forward and 1 back for child care and early learning The childcare reforms passed by the Senate last week – the biggest in a decade – will reward some women and their children and punish others.
