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

Again, this government has made no secret of the fact that we have been driving gender equality and ensuring women's economic empowerment is strengthened in this country since our first days of government. Super on PPL is one of those reforms, obviously. Helping close the gender pay gap is another, as are the 15 per cent pay rise for aged-care workers and our announcement recently about early childhood educators. There's the fact that we've dealt with some of the problems in our IR system so that it doesn't disadvantage women or those industries where women are the predominant workers. We've banned pay secrecy, we encourage enterprise bargaining, and, of course, we reshaped the tax cuts. We know from the analysis we did then that it made much better sense not only from a fairness point of view to all taxpayers; it also improved the amount that women taxpayers were getting through those tax cuts.