Labor\u2019s Women\u2019s Budget Statement outlines the problems women face, but offers very little when it comes to delivering the solutions women need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of waiting years for half-measures on PPL and childcare, women are offered partial indexation rather than a funding boost for frontline services, while billionaires and big corporations get massive handouts and tax cuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women, Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter talking up their \u2018women-centred\u2019 budget for months now, the Albanese Government has offered up an incredibly underwhelming budget for women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter 9 years of inaction under the Coalition, it was a low bar to clear, but redirecting existing funds and dangling the promise of better things in the future just isn\u2019t going to cut it when it comes to women\u2019s safety and economic security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCheaper childcare is a welcome outcome for women, but it\u2019s still not free and there is nothing to address the early childhood workforce crisis. And instead of raising the rate of income support payments above the poverty line, they\u2019ve chosen to give tax cuts to the wealthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the National plan to end violence against women and children<\/strong> \u201cThe women\u2019s safety sector has repeatedly called for a $1B per year to ensure funding meets demand. And yet the government\u2019s budget response was to re-badge and re-shuffle previous funding commitments, adding only partial indexation and a fraction of the workers needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPartial indexation is not a base funding increase. And the Albanese Government shouldn\u2019t be trying to spin it as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a standalone National plan to end violence against First Nations women and children<\/strong> On Paid Parental Leave<\/strong> \u201cIf the Jobs summit convinced the Minister for Women to \u2018step up\u2019 on paid parental leave, why keep women waiting?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFairer Paid Parental Leave is a no-brainer that benefits everyone – parents, children and the economy. If the Albanese government had axed the Stage 3 tax cuts, we could easily afford it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Respect @ Work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImplementing all Respect @ Work recommendations is overdue and we welcome the government\u2019s Bill and the funding commitments to support the Human Rights Commission and Fair Work Commission to take stronger action on workplace sexual harassment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are also pleased to see funding for Working Women\u2019s Centres across Australia to provide independent, expert advice and support to workers who experience sexual harassment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Reproductive Healthcare<\/strong> On Birthing on Country<\/strong> The commitment to develop a Birthing on Country Centre for Excellence is a great first step, and must prompt the roll out of access to culturally-safe care for First Nation families across Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Labor\u2019s Women\u2019s Budget Statement outlines the problems women face, but offers very little when it comes to delivering the solutions women need. On top of waiting years for half-measures on PPL and childcare, women are offered partial indexation rather than a funding boost for frontline services, while billionaires and big corporations get massive handouts and … Continue reading “Greens: No buck for the bang in \u2018women-centred\u2019 budget”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe new National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children was released last week with great fanfare and laudable goals. But ambitious aims need to be backed with funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA First Nations Action Plan and a standalone National Plan for First Nations women is a matter of national priority and needs to be treated that way, but the Budget failed to dedicate funding for consultation or development of the Plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe support moves to strengthen Australia\u2019s parental leave scheme, but Labor\u2019s plan is too slow and doesn\u2019t include superannuation or replacement wages. Families, and particularly women, have waited long enough for fairer leave and deserve action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is crystal clear that reproductive healthcare across Australia is a postcode lottery and too many women, especially in rural and regional areas, struggle to get access. There is nothing in this Budget to remove those barriers such as adding abortion care to Medicare, ensuring public hospitals provide abortion care, or resourcing the full suite of birthing options for women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe know that First Nations parents can experience trauma when forced to be away from Country when giving birth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n