ERA has signed on with 15 other organisations and individuals in response to the Senate Inquiry report into ParentsNext. In response to the Report of the Senate Inquiry into ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout, a broad coalition of service providers, human rights bodies, peak bodies, researchers and advocates today calls time on ParentsNext. […]
Lock up is just one part of the Budget process but a potent symbol for how the Government engages with community organisations and a key element of transparency. We’ll be working with Treasury following this lock up to enhance the process into the future.
Helen Dalley-Fisher of the Equality Rights Alliance says “Australia is currently appearing at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York, making the argument that a diversity of women’s voices is essential to achieving progress towards gender equality. We thank the Office for Women for their intervention and look forward to working with Treasury to ensure women are not excluded from the budget in the future.”
Gender budgeting should “eradicate gender asymmetry in budgets” by covering expenditure and revenue measures. This process should include analysis of the investment required to achieve gender equality in Australia in order to translate gender equality goals into budgetary commitments.
We have worked with the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) to produce this analysis of the Women’s Economic Security Statement. As the dust settles on the inaugural Women’s Economic Security Statement (WESS), we’ve taken a closer look at the Statement, in particular the workforce participation and economic independence pillars, and what it means for […]
“Even though Parliament isn’t representative of us proportionately it should still represent our issues.”
“We have too many older women sleeping in their cars. We have too many mums who don’t know where the next meal for their kids is going to be coming from. We have entrenched economic disadvantage and it’s vital that we have a long-term plan for addressing that. Not short-term planning and long-term tax cuts.”
In 2018 the Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO will travel across the country to speak with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls as part of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani ‘Women’s Voices’ project. The project will build on the legacy of the landmark Women’s Business report from 1986, which was the first and last […]
ERA has worked with our membership to develop our 2018-18 pre-budget submission which covers gender responsive budgeting, much-needed funding for time-use surveys, rebuilding the aid budget and women’s access to affordable housing, livable incomes, education and health services. The full submission is available here. With a word version here.
The National Women’s Alliances have made the following submission to the Australian Government to inform the Government’s approach to the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (CSW62). CSW62 will focus on Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. We are grateful to the […]
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