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

I thank Senator Ciccone for that supplementary. From yesterday, 1 July, there are tax cuts for every taxpayer, including for every woman taxpayer, with an average tax cut of $1,650. Ninety per cent of women will be better off under our plan by an average of $707. There is $300 off every household's energy bill, a freezing of the cost of PBS medicines and a pay rise for 2.6 million workers on award wages. We know that many of those workers are women. We know that, in many households, it's women who put the budget together and that these measures are going to directly support them and the work that they do in keeping their households ticking over. We've also got investments in women's safety, our super on PPL, our investment in rent assistance—again, where the majority of those who will receive it are women, particularly women with children—our investment to reduce HELP loans and our investments in women's health— (Time expired)