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

I thank Senator Walsh for the question. I'd also like to thank WGEA, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. It's a small but powerful group. Their home base is Sydney. They do an incredible job in keeping this parliament and the Australian community informed about what's happening when it comes to wages for women.

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency published employer level gender pay gaps for employers with a hundred employees or more. It's the first time this data has been published, and we heard from many women who went straight to the website to look up what their employer or their favourite brand had in terms of a gender pay gap. This new data energised an important national conversation.

Also this year, WGEA released the first results for Commonwealth public sector reporting. It's appropriate that the Commonwealth public sector reports on their gender pay gap, just like the private sector. That showed that, whilst we had lower remuneration average gender pay gap than the private sector, there is still more work to be done. (Time expired)