federal budget

Youth climate activists Margaret THanos and Olivia Causer explain why they are hitting the streets as part of the School Strike for Climate.

The Coalition’s increase in child-care subsidies is a step in the right direction, though more needs to be done, writes Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Owain Emslie.

A group of representatives of parents, workers and business have come together with a joint goal of making Australia a place where all women can live and work freely and safely.

The pattern we’ve seem from this government? Act with impunity and then actively seek to silence anyone who dares to call it out.

After the 2020 Federal budget landed, we saw a rapid, robust response highlighting the ways in which the budget failed to “deliver for women”.

The budget pledged $36 million to the Boosting Female Founders fund. But strict eligibility criteria means many women-led startups miss out.

Fronting Senate Estimates on Monday, Senator Payne, Minister for Women, rejected the assertion that the federal budget had not done enough for Australian women.

After Tuesday night’s federal budget announcemnt, Senator Larissa Waters writes that the government is continuing to ignore women.

The Morrison Government has committed *zero* dollars of new funding for the specialist domestic violence services that so many rely on.

Five domestic and family violence survivor advocates have penned a joint letter to members of the government’s Expenditure Review Committee.

Here are a few budget ideas from working mothers that might help not only your wish for population growth but your dream for economic recovery.

For 30 years up until 2014, a statement of budget measures that disproportionately affect women was published at budget time.