Ali France (Dickson, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week I visited Goodstart Early Learning Albany Creek in my electorate of Dickson. Before I could even talk about our three-day childcare guarantee, educators were gushing over Labor's delivery of a 15 per cent pay rise. Advocating for wage rises in female dominated industries, strengthening laws around flexible work arrangements and the expansion of paid parental leave to six months are reducing gender pay gap. Today marks the third release of employer gender pay gap reporting, and the data shows progress, a reduction of 0.9 per cent in the past year. Obviously, there is more work to do, but on this side of the House we are clear eyed and focused on reducing the gender pay gap. This is in stark contrast to the coalition, which went to the last election with a policy to end work-from-home arrangements.

I know this might trigger some of you, but today is the actual anniversary of the announcement of that tone-deaf archaic policy. We know that there are many of you over there that still ideologically oppose work-from-home arrangements, including the shadow Treasurer. The gender pay gap is shrinking three times faster under our government. That is what you get when you have a majority female caucus as opposed to the blue-suit brigade over there.