The Greens are calling on the Government to accept all recommendations of the Women\u2019s Economic Equality Taskforce (WEET) in the May Budget, and not make women wait while wealthy men and submarines are prioritised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce have asked for urgent action on 6 key priority recommendations, to redress gender wealth inequality, all of which the Greens support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women, Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government asked the WEET for advice about how to deliver women\u2019s financial security, they can\u2019t now ignore the sensible advice on policy reforms to deliver it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe women of Australia expect and deserve to be prioritised after nine years of Coalition neglect, and this government can\u2019t claim to be better for women if they make us wait while prioritising tax cuts for the wealthy and submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis budget is about choices. Choose to implement expert recommendations to help women, children, and those most at-risk or already living in poverty; or continue to cry poor while funding the Stage 3 tax cuts and spending billions on submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEach of the six key recommendations for women\u2019s economic security were already Greens policy and we back them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are pleased to see reversing the Gillard government\u2019s decision to cut off Parenting Payment Single when kids turn 8 as a priority recommendation. Extending parenting support to 16 years would cost $1.4 billion dollars – a fraction of a fraction of the Stage 3 tax cuts and AUKUS spending – but it would be life changing for 500,000 single mums and their kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe strongly support the Taskforce\u2019s call to scrap the degrading, punitive and coercive ParentsNext program. The Greens tried to disallow it back in 2018, and the program has done untold damage since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust last month the government had the chance to support Greens amendments to their Paid Parental Leave bill and pay super on paid parental leave, costed at $200 million, yet they chose not to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPoverty is a policy choice. Right now, Labor is choosing to keep in place a woeful social security system that leaves millions of women, children, uni students and renters in poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Labor Government has found $368 billion to spend on nuclear submarines and $254 billion in Stage 3 tax cuts for the rich, so has no excuse to reject reforms that will help women struggling to pay rent and put food on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor say they’re on the side of struggling Australians – it’s time they show it, and use that money to make life a bit easier for women and children doing it tough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n BACKGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In full: Letter to Minister Gallagher re Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce advice for May 2023 Budget (pmc.gov.au)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Six priorities identified by the WEET as urgent and targeted actions: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Greens are calling on the Government to accept all recommendations of the Women\u2019s Economic Equality Taskforce (WEET) in the May Budget, and not make women wait while wealthy men and submarines are prioritised. The Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce have asked for urgent action on 6 key priority recommendations, to redress gender wealth inequality, all … Continue reading “GOVERNMENT MUST HEED THE ADVICE OF ITS WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EQUALITY TASKFORCE”<\/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-20959","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\/20959","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=20959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20960,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20959\/revisions\/20960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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