Senate debates
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
International Women’S Day
3:54 pm
Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that:
- (i)
- 8 March was International Women’s Day (IWD),
- (ii)
- this global day of action was established to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future, and
- (iii)
- IWD is now an official holiday in China, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam;
- (b)
- recognises that:
- (i)
- for more than 30 years, Australian women have been campaigning for the introduction of paid parental leave, and
- (ii)
- Australia and the United States of America are now the only two Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries yet to formally legislate on a paid parental leave scheme; and
- (c)
- calls on the Rudd Government, as part of their election promises and their commitment to Australian families, to support the introduction of a paid parental leave scheme in the upcoming 2009 Budget.
Question agreed to.