When Government policies and programs are developed and managed in the absence of an informed and evidence-based gender analysis, they are at risk of delivering poor service, as is the case with effective marginal tax rates, or actual harm as is the case with ParentsNext.
A feminist foreign policy calls into question the budget priorities that mean that by 2021, for every dollar spent on Official Development Assistance (ODA), Australia will spend $11 on defence and divert an additional $3.8 billion (the equivalent of the annual aid budget) towards arms manufacturers (ACFID, IWDA & CARE, 2018).
UPDATE ON BUDGET LOCKOUT OF WOMEN’S GROUPS, TREASURY RELENTS, ONE CHAIR NOW MADE AVAILABLE National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) […]
The loss of the women’s budget process has meant that the Australian government no longer has a systematic way of analysing the impact on women of its policies or measure progress in achieving gender equality. NFAW believes that this national conversation offers a critical opportunity to address this gap in Australia’s budget preparation and analysis.
The National Foundation for Australian Women supports legislating the Objective of Superannuation. The Objective should include the criteria of:-Preservation of savings-Generating income in retirement-Government support through the Age Pension and services including health and aged care-Ensuring a dignified retirement-Equity and sustainability
The Labor Government’s commitment to stick to its election script will come under pressure. It will be pressed to raise climate targets and to move quickly on its commitment to put in place an effective integrity commission.
Following the release of the 2020 Federal Government budget, the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) commissioned independent analysis by the Centre of Policy Studies to identify the effect of investment in the care sector. Workers in Aged Care, Disability Care and Child Care are among the lowest paid workers in the Australian economy yet work long hours to support community needs.
NFAW and the Equality Rights Alliance submit that tax reform must be examined through a gendered lens to identify any impact that reform may have on women. Specifically, the economic impact on women are often the result of gender blindness that does not recognise the different effect that policies have on women because of the circumstances of women’s lives.
