Ed's Blog Women’s budget? We need more transparency about what this means More transparency is needed regarding what the government’s promised “gender-responsive budgeting” involves.
News & Views ‘The first step’: What the Women’s Budget Statement and a majority female government means in practice Parliament house celebrates the Labor Government’s Women’s Budget Statement and a majority (52 per cent) female government.
News & Views Here’s what’s in the Women’s Budget Statement for 2022-23 This year’s Women’s Budget Statement outlines $2.1 billion in targeted spending for women and girls to “plan for a stronger future”.
News & Views The Morrison Government decided to do a Women’s Budget Statement just weeks before Budget As Senate Estimates heard this week it was cobbled together quickly, within weeks of the Budget being delivered.
News & Views How to ‘fix women’ and get them to ‘Lean In’? Examine the 2021 Women’s Budget Statement We got more of the same “lean in” and “choices” crap in the Women’s Budget Statement that we have heard before.
News & Views Each budget used to have a gender impact statement. We need it back, especially now For 30 years up until 2014, a statement of budget measures that disproportionately affect women was published at budget time.
News & Views Who’ll most benefit from tax cuts? Rich men. We need gender-responsive budgeting, now The tax cuts are meant to put ‘money in the pocket of people’? But 70 percent of the tax benefits with flow through to men.
News & Views How the Australian budget process is failing women Australia needs a gender responsive budget & we need it yesterday because Australian women are falling way behind in terms of economic security.
News & Views Women’s groups excluded from this year’s Federal Budget lockup Eight community organisations representing women, children & indigenous Australians have been excluded from the Federal Budget lockup in 2019.
News & Views Why we still really need a women’s budget statement in 2018 The fact the proposed fact tax cuts in the 2018/19 budget will deliver men twice the benefits as women is a reminder why we still need a women’s budget statement.