Senate debates

Thursday, 31 July 2025

Questions without Notice

Gender Equality

2:25 pm

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

I thank Senator Darmanin for the question. It is an important one and one that the government has focused on since day one. When we came to government in May 2022, we set about placing women's economic equality right at the front of our economic policy thinking, as a priority across the government. We have put in place a number of measures to make sure that we are driving equality across the economy and across the community. They include, when we look at wages, skills and job opportunities, measures like our tax cuts, which have delivered tax cuts for every woman taxpayer, with 90 per cent of women better off under the reshaped tax cuts that Labor did in the last term. We have, of course, seen a record-low gender pay gap: 11.9 per cent of—

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