Eight years after Tony Abbott’s decision to abolish the women’s budget statement, the Liberal Federal Governments’ 2021 budget was touted as “for women.”
What should we make of this sudden change of heart and how does this budget stack up in terms of addressing growing gender inequality in Australia?
Federal Member for Newcastle and Chair of Labor’s Status of Women Caucus Committee Sharon Claydon MP launched the Labor Women’s Budget Statement this morning, casting a gender lens over the 2021 Budget – but before that she caught up with Tracy Mac for Newcastle In The Morning on Newcastle Live Radio.
