Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Continuing on this theme of tax cuts going to higher-income earners rather than to the people who would really benefit from an increase in their disposable income, we are in an era of increasing casualisation and increasing part-time work, so fewer and fewer people are in the range the tax cuts that you are offering. In particular, we are in an era where women, more so than men, tend to be in part-time or casualised work. Have you done any modelling on the different impacts on women compared to men? Does the government concede that, by using full-time average wages as its basis for these tax cuts, it is creating tax cuts that are going to benefit men more than women? Because it is women who are much more likely to be working part-time or in casual employment.