Tanja Kovac

Labor’s thumping electoral success is a triumph of strategic gender equality advocacy and transformation that has changed not just the Labor party, but the entire parliament. Labor’s staggering 94 seat win in the lower house of Parliament is for the first time dominated by women.

Australian women are being short-changed. Whether it is funding to address the national crisis in gendered violence or to alleviate the burden of cost of living, women do not receive a fair share of public funds. Gender Lens Australia’s recent review of Federal, State and Territory budgets for its first Gender Budget Watch report, found that women’s share of government budgets is languishing well below what is needed to lift many out of entrenched poverty and gender inequity.

Australian women are being short-changed. Whether it is funding to address the national crisis in gendered violence or to alleviate the burden of cost of living, women do not receive a fair share of public funds. Gender Lens Australia’s recent review of Federal, State and Territory budgets for its first Gender Budget Watch report, found that women’s share of government budgets is languishing well below what is needed to lift many out of entrenched poverty and gender inequity.