federal budget

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.

As the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on women’s economic security bite, we face a critical crossroads.

Leigh Sales grilled Treasurer Josh Frydenberg over the “rosy picture” he is trying to paint about Australia’s economic reality.

The announcement of a 12-month extension of preschool investment in the 2019 budget has left parents and early childhood educators with uncertainty in the long-term.

After initially excluding a number of women’s organisations that routinely attend the federal budget lock up Treasury relented & offered women two seats.

Eight community organisations representing women, children & indigenous Australians have been excluded from the Federal Budget lockup in 2019.

Senator Michaelia Cash and the Office for Women’s response to the Budget’s impact on women as outlined in the NFAW Gender Lens report is to ask treasury.