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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.
Date
18 December, 2023

Inquiry into the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023

Most of the provisions included in the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 (the Bill) were recommended in the submissions made by NFAW and other women’s organisations to the 2021 Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (the Review).
Date
27 February, 2023

Pre-Budget Submission for the 2021-22 Budget

Gender-based analysis defines the ways in which public policies affect women and men differently. It does so through the systematic use of data to better tailor the development of government programs. The Commonwealth government stopped production of its Women’s Budget Statement, part of the official Budget papers in 2014, after 40 years of production.
Date
15 January, 2021

Submission to the Victorian government on gender responsive budgeting

NFAW welcomes the opportunity to respond to this inquiry into the way the Victorian state government budget addresses gender equity. We view the inquiry as particularly timely in the light of its intersection with the government’s Gender Equality Bill. Indeed, our recommendations and discussion largely address the intersection of an annual Women’s Budget Statement (WBS) with the operational arrangements proposed in the Bill.
Date
29 November, 2019

Submission on Labor's Better Budgeting discussion paper

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.
Date
22 April, 2017
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