The Greens note today\u2019s announcement of Status of Women Report Card, but a mere distillation of existing data is inadequate, we need actions and funding to improve women\u2019s lives. We also need new data gathered on unmet demand for women\u2019s safety services and a real time count of women killed by domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA report card is an inadequate response from the government, when they have the power to fund programs that would actually improve women\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe women\u2019s safety sector has repeatedly called for a $1B per year investment to ensure funding meets demand. The Government\u2019s October budget response was nowhere near this amount, leaving frontline services about $700m short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA woman is still murdered each week in this country. Real time data on that tragic national statistic – treated with the prominence that the road toll is treated – would force us to face the reality of family and domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWomen on low wages or income support are especially vulnerable without the resources to escape violent situations. Yet this government persists with the cruelty of keeping income support payments like JobSeeker below the poverty line, and has the audacity to cry poor while dishing out hundreds of billions in tax cuts and investment property perks for the rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEarlier this week they had the chance to amend their Paid Parental Leave bill and pay super on paid parental leave, costed by the government at $200 million, they chose not to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAccountability on the status of women is welcome, but actions to improve women\u2019s lives would be better than a mere distillation of all the data we already know.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens note today\u2019s announcement of Status of Women Report Card, but a mere distillation of existing data is inadequate, we need actions and funding to improve women\u2019s lives. We also need new data gathered on unmet demand for women\u2019s safety services and a real time count of women killed by domestic violence. Greens leader … Continue reading “STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT CARD: FAILING WITH FLYING COLOURS”<\/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-20603","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\/20603","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=20603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20605,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions\/20605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}