Senate debates

Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Questions without Notice

Economy, Women's Economic Security

2:09 pm

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

I can do that. Just to cover off, at the end of the last question I was making the point that women working full-time today are, on average, earning almost $300 more per week than they were when we came to government. It's because of those investments we've made, but they haven't just been into wages and supporting the wage review. We've also been working around lowering the gender pay gap. We've introduced the Women's Budget Statement. We've seen 650,000 new jobs created for women. We've done our extension of paid parental leave. And this has been reflected in Australia increasing our ranking in the international gender equality rankings from 43rd, when we came to government, to 13th on the latest ranking. This shows that our work of driving gender equality because it's good for everybody and good for the economy is working in measurable ways that we've been focused on.

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