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

I thank Senator Stewart for the supplementary, and it's an important one, because we can't look at women's safety in isolation from other areas where we need to address gender inequality. That's why in our government, when we are going through the budget process, we are assessing every NPP, every new proposal, against what it means for women in this country. We do gender analysis to make sure that we fully understand the implications of those decisions that we're taking. That helped to inform our revised tax cuts so that more women received more of those tax cuts, with 90 per cent of women being better off.

It has informed the decisions we've taken around PPL, to extend PPL, and also to add superannuation to PPL and in terms of the work we've done around early childhood educators and aged-care workers—a highly feminised industry where 90 per cent in that sector, on average, are women. That has informed the decisions we have taken to support pay rises. Publishing employer gender pay gaps—the list is too long. (Time expired)