Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator White for the question and for her career-long effort in supporting the rights of working women right around this country. Equality for women is at the heart of what we do as a Labor government. There's no other government in recent memory that has done as much for Australian women as we have tried to do in our first year in government. For too long Australians were treated as second-class citizens, and, after nine years of blokey budgets, this is finally a budget that delivers for women. It delivers for all women now and into the future but gives the most economically vulnerable immediate relief with—

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