See ERA’s media release below: Focus On Women Is A Welcome Start, But Deep Structural Change Is Needed For Gender Equality ERA-Media-release-budget-2021-22-20210511-1
See ERA’s media release below: Focus On Women Is A Welcome Start, But Deep Structural Change Is Needed For Gender Equality ERA-Media-release-budget-2021-22-20210511-1
Media Release by ERA following the Federal Budget Dated 11 May 2021
ERA has released our pre-budget submission to the 2021 federal budget process, with a strong focus on the need for gender responsive budgeting.
ERA worked with the National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group on this article which was published in Parity in October 2020.
This article by Helen Dalley-Fisher was published in Parity in October 2020
Our 2020 pre-budget submission focuses on the need for a gender analysis on budget measures to ensure that the budget works for both women and men.
ERA has joined with sixteen other organisations to call for a new approach to budgeting which will bring women’s needs into sharper focus. Read more: Media Release: Calls for structural change to budget are building as women are left behind
ERA, as part of the The National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group, contributed to this submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into Homelessness in Australia.
“Between the summer of bushfires, in which almost 2,500 homes were lost in NSW alone, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to ensure access to housing as part of an adequate standard of living is and will continue to be an urgent imperative. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing stated that […]
“The COVID-19 pandemic is both a public health and an economic crisis, with long-term economic impacts to the Australian population. Women, and particularly young women, are one of the hardest hit demographics due to their overrepresentation in casual work, and in the retail and hospitality sectors. Disasters such as this pandemic have been shown to […]
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