{"id":8599,"date":"2020-10-09T02:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2020-10-09T02:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T02:08:41","slug":"women-left-out-and-left-behind-in-morrisons-recession-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/09\/women-left-out-and-left-behind-in-morrisons-recession-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN LEFT OUT AND LEFT BEHIND IN MORRISON\u2019S RECESSION BUDGET"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe\u00a02020 Women\u2019s Budget Statement<\/a>\u00a0released today by Labor shows that this year\u2019s Morrison Recession Budget contains no measures to address significant job losses in industries dominated by women.
\nSince March, almost 200,000 have lost their jobs and 110,000 women have left the labour force altogether. At the peak of coronavirus restrictions earlier this year, more than 1 million women had no work whatsoever.
\nThere is no doubt that Australian women have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and Morrison recession.
\nBut despite racking up more than a trillion dollars in debt, the Prime Minister\u2019s re-hashed \u201cwomen\u2019s economic statement\u201d only allocated $240 million in new funding \u2013 0.024 per cent.
\nIn this year\u2019s Budget, there is no new funding for frontline service providers to support women and their children escaping domestic violence.
\nThere is nothing new to properly drive down the gender pay gap. There is nothing to bolster women\u2019s superannuation or economic security in retirement.
\nThere is no plan to lift the permanent rate of JobSeeker from $40 per day, tackle insecure work, create opportunities for women or to improve access to childcare.
\nThere is no plan to reduce childcare fees to support women going back to work during the deepest recession in a hundred years.
\nAt a time when women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing demographic facing homelessness, there is no plan to build more social housing or repair properties unfit for tenants to live in.
\nThe Women\u2019s Budget Statement was axed by Tony Abbott\u2019s Government in 2014. Labor has produced one from Opposition every year since.
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\nLabor Leader Anthony Albanese said:<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cThe lives of Australian women and girls matter. If we\u2019re elected to lead Australia, we\u2019ll reintroduce a Women\u2019s Budget Statement to stop women from being left behind, like they are under the Morrison Government.\u201d
\n\u201cOnly Labor will make sure no woman is held back, and no woman is left behind \u2013 because it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d
\nShadow Minister for Women Julie Collins said:<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cWomen aren\u2019t just facing many of the consequences of the coronavirus more harshly, we also know they\u2019re doing much more of the dangerous frontline work to combat the pandemic.\u201d
\n\u201cThe truth is the Morrison Government has taken no serious action on gender equality. It\u2019s time to step up.\u201d
\nChair of the Status of Women Caucus Committee Sharon Claydon said:<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cWe know the things that perpetuate gender inequality in Australia. Now is the time to re-double our efforts to set about changing them \u2013 for the Morrison Government, that means equal representation and restoring budgets that support women.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a02020 Women\u2019s Budget Statement\u00a0released today by Labor shows that this year\u2019s Morrison Recession Budget contains no measures to address significant job losses in industries dominated by women. Since March, almost 200,000 have lost their jobs and 110,000 women have left the labour force altogether. At the peak of coronavirus restrictions earlier this year, more than … Continue reading “WOMEN LEFT OUT AND LEFT BEHIND IN MORRISON\u2019S RECESSION 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","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=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}