Run up to the Budget 2021-2022 – thoughts from NFAW Social Policy Committee

The NDIS needs funding security to ensure we can get the Scheme right, including stopping independent assessments which will hurt women with disability. Disabled women* are already finding it hard to access the NDIS, with only half as many participating as men, and the proposed independent assessments will exacerbate this by building even greater barriers to accessing a Scheme which is built to support the male experience of disability. Apparently, it’s all in the name of saving $700m.

May 10, 2021
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2020-2021

These position papers have been developed by NFAW’s Social Policy Committee to summarise 2020-2021 Budget measures of importance to women in Australia. It also contains a summary of modelling on the impacts of increased government expenditure in the care sectors – see Appendix A.

October 18, 2020
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2019-2020

NFAW is dedicated to promoting and protecting the interests of Australian women, including intellectual, cultural, political, social, economic, legal, industrial and domestic spheres, and ensuring that the aims and ideals of the women’s movement and its collective wisdom are handed on to new generations of women. NFAW is a feminist organisation, independent of party politics. These position papers have been developed by NFAW’s Social Policy Committee to summarise 2019 Budget measures of importance to women in Australia.

April 10, 2019
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2018-19

Budget 2018-19 is not a great Budget for Women. That said, it is the first Budget for some time when there have been two women (Sen. Michaelia Cash and Kelly O’Dwyer) members of the Expenditure Review Committee, and where the Minister for Women (O’Dwyer) is an avowed feminist and has expressly required the Office for Women to assist her in her role on the ERC.

July 8, 2018
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2017-18

With ABS data on wages and employment producing disquiet about the growth forecasts underpinning this Budget, there is cause for concern about the overall economic environment. The reports on housing affordability set against the news on incomes equally are causes for apprehension. NFAW is quite clear in its view that women and girls can only benefit from a strong economy where there are realistic plans for bringing the Budget back into balance over the cycle.

May 15, 2017
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2015-2016

It  has  been  the  practice  since  1984 for  Federal  Governments  to  produce  a  Women’s  Budget   Statement  as  one  element  of  the  official  Budget  Papers.  In  2014  this  practice ceased.  There  has  been   no  explanation  from  the  Government.  It  is  regrettable  that  the  Government  has  made  this  decision.

May 15, 2015
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Gender Lens on the Budget 2014-2015

NFAW, with other women’s organisations, is committed to examining the potentially differential impacts of policies and their outcomes for men and for women, and whether the consequences of policies, intended or unintended, may adversely impact on women. There is an average gap of 17 per cent between the incomes of men and women.

May 22, 2014
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