My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...]
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What an amazing outcome on Saturday, November 24 when the Howard government was convincingly trounced after eleven years and Labor, led by Kevin Rudd, took the helm. For many people, the icing on the cake (for some people it was the cake!) was Maxine McKew winning Bennelong, the (former) Prime Minister’s seat. The sweetest victory [...] Labor has promised to increase the rebate to 50 per cent of the actual costs of child care, capped at $7500 a year, compared with the government’s policy of 30 per cent capped at $4000. The policy has been welcomed by careermums, a new group that is lobbying for working mothers. Here is their press release |
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