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Women’s safety, health issues get federal budget funding boost, but some say it’s not enough
Author: Georgia Hitch
The Women’s Budget Statement promises $3.4 billion to address inequality. Women’s advocates see a ‘really significant missed opportunity’.
Read the Business Insider Article Here
Author: David Adams
Women’s budget statement needs data, not just announceables: advocates
Read the Illawara Mercury Article here
Author: Sally Whyte
Community groups decry ‘shameful’ budget
Author: Marion Rae
Media Release Compilation
ERA’s Media Release on the Budget is available to read here.
See below for other Organisation’s media releases. If your Organisation would like your media release added, email us at era@ywca.org.au
Organisation | Media Release Heading | Link |
Australian Council for International Development | 2021-22 Development Budget: Facts and Figures | Read Here |
Australian Council for International Development | COVID-19 Spikes Across Asia, Australian Aid Falls | Read Here |
Australian Council of Social Service | Federal Budget: ACOSS preliminary analysis and briefing | Read Here |
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre | Budget 21 continues the Government’s detention cost blow out and exclusion of people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants in time of crisis | Read Here |
Consumers Health Forum of Australia | Budget’s modest response to aged care and mental health inquiries | Read Here |
Economic Justice Australia | Federal budget cost savings hurt those most vulnerable | Read Here |
Harmony Alliance | Focus on migrant and refugee women’s safety is welcome, but changes to social security access are deeply concerning | Read Here |
National Council of Single Mothers & their Children | High Expectations – Low Outcomes Financial fairness and financial safety were missing before the women’s budget and it is missing now. | Read Here |
People with Disability Australia | Media Release: #Budget2021 ‘Not A Budget For People With Disability’ | Read Here |
ACOSS Community Sector Post Budget Press Conference
Click on this to go directly to the post and watch the ACOSS Community Sector Post Budget Press Conference, featuring ERA Manager Helen Dalley-Fisher.
Speakers Include:
Australian Council of Social Service CEO Dr. Cassandra Goldie
People with Disability Australia President, Samantha Connor
National Council of Single Mothers and their Children CEO, Terese Edwards
Council on the Ageing ACT CEO, Ian Yates
Tomorrow Movement Tallulah Farrow
UnitingCare Australia National Director, Claerwen Little
Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union Communications Coordinator, Kristin O’Connell
Equality Rights Alliance Manager, Helen Dalley-Fisher
ACTCOSS – ACT Council of Social Service Inc. Head of Policy, Craig Wallace
Mental Health Community Coalition ACT CEO Bec Cody
ERA Media Release – Budget 2021-22
Is the Coalition solving their ‘woman problem’? The Federal budget tells the true story
Read Helen Dalley-Fisher discuss the Budget and the need for Gender Responsive Budgeting ahead of Tuesday.