Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Women and Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Minister, today is Equal Pay Day, marking the 50 days into the new financial year that Australian women must work to earn the same, on average, as men did last year. Last week, it was promising to see that the gender pay gap has continued to narrow, but the gap is still 11.5 per cent. There is more work to do. Can the minister please outline what the Albanese Labor government is doing to reduce the pay gap and why closing the gender pay gap is so important?