Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator O'Neill. I'm pleased to remind all Australians that things have changed for Australian women since the Albanese government came to office, because it's women that have led the jobs boom. Fifty-two per cent of all jobs growth in Australia has been in jobs for women, since the Albanese government was elected. That's an extra 510,000 women in jobs in Australia since we were elected. Again, women are not just getting into any jobs; they're more likely to be full-time jobs. Sixty per cent of all women who have taken up work since we came to government are in a full-time job.

None of this is a coincidence. Just as we know the opposition had a deliberate design feature of their economy to bring down wages, it is a deliberate design feature of the Albanese Labor government's economic policy to get more women into work and to get more Australians into work. It's the result of a government that prioritises economic equality for women and, as Senator Gallagher was talking about, we've also brought down the gender pay gap to the lowest level on record, 11.5 per cent. (Time expired)