Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Aston is right. That was a very poorly phrased question, full of inaccuracies and mistakes. I am very proud that, in this budget, the Prime Minister has ensured that funding for women's programs has continued strongly.

The hypocrisy of those opposite in talking about support for women's programs or about helping women in the workforce is exposed by the fact that they have unleashed a partisan attack on our Paid Parental Leave scheme. The Paid Parental Leave scheme is fundamental to ensuring that more women stay in the workforce after having children so that we continue to—

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