Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I can, and I want to acknowledge Senator Henderson's leadership as a woman from regional Australia who has joined us here in the Senate following the experience of the House of Representatives—she has come from the other place—and I note her great leadership in her own community, particularly around Geelong. The Women's Economic Security Statement includes measures that support rural, regional and remote women's workforce participation. They are measures like Career Revive, an initiative that gives tailored business improvement assistance for regional employers to recruit and retain women who are seeking to return to work after a career break. The first intake of those 10 businesses was selected just in August of this year.

Through the Women's Leadership and Development Program we are funding small-scale and one-off grants to specifically support rural, regional and remote women. There are two great examples I want to mention today: the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Women's Leadership Forum, an annual one-day women's leadership forum in Kalgoorlie where high-profile speakers discuss leadership; and, most recently, our commitment to CatholicCare Wilcannia-Forbes— (Time expired)