Policy Library

Explore our collection of evidence-based policy papers, organised by topic. These papers reflect NFAW’s ongoing work to inform and influence policies that impact women and girls across Australia.

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Improving future preparedness: Inquiry into the response to the Covid-19 pandemic

mproving decision-making around future pandemics requires an understanding of the decision-making that underpinned Australia’s COVID-19 response – not only how decisions were made, but also by whom and on what basis.

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Date

18 December, 2023

COVID Gender Budgeting Jobkeeper Jobseeker Superannuation

A gender lens on the workforce: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia

A suite of labour market indicators, disaggregated by gender, is examined to identify the ways in which men and women were affected differently by the economic impacts of the pandemic as well as by government policy. Using ABS Labour Force Survey data, the paper develops a cumulative measure of workforce losses over the course of the pandemic, calculated comparatively for men and women, and assessed relative to the workforce’s prepandemic composition.

Topic

Employment

Date

8 November, 2021

Care Economy COVID Gender Budgeting Workforce

Inquiry into Coronovirus Supplement and Other Legislative Amendments (Extension of Coronovirus Supplement) Bill 2020

NFAW rejects the draft proposals and recommends that the draft Bill introduce a permanent and adequate increase for the relevant payments.

Topic

Transfers and Social Services

Date

17 November, 2020

COVID Jobseeker Transfer Payments

Budget is Gender Blind but COVID was not

The Government has advised women not to worry about how the Budget affects them because ‘Nothing in the budget is gendered’. Policy-makers evidently need reminding that gender blindness is not gender neutral. COVID is not gender blind: it actively undermines the position of women. The 2020 Budget was an opportunity to counter the effects of COVID by proactively supporting women.

Topic

News

Date

9 October, 2020

COVID Gender Budgeting

Inquiry into the Australian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

It is now widely acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting women and men in different ways; it is not gender neutral. The by-products of economic shock and its impact on insecure employment have hit women particularly hard. Women are over-represented in industries most affected by the virus.

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Employment / Health / Transfers and Social Services

Date

27 May, 2020

COVID Health Jobkeeper Jobseeker Superannuation

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