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

I thank Senator Smith for the supplementary. Senator Smith is right: we all have a role to play in this place, in our communities, at home and in businesses, unions, schools, universities, churches and sporting groups. Wherever you are, we can work together, and women's economic equality and gender equality will make us a better country. In this place, we can help drive that change by getting around the table and working together as we have done on the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023, which passed the parliament today.

We know that there's a lot more work to do. We've been delivering some of those important investments to drive this change through cheaper child care, through 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave, through boosting paid parental leave and through our gender-responsive budgeting in the first budget in nearly a decade that cast a gender lens over the budget. We have the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children; a wage increase for aged-care workers, 96 per cent of whom are women; and the National Women's Health Advisory Council. I could go on. (Time expired)